Our Story
The journey to this day at the Maribett Farm begins with a simple realization at the birth of our daughter Dominique: that we would be responsible for everything she took into her precious being.
The Pasture
I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;
I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha’n’t be gone long. -You come too.
I’m going out to fetch the little calf
That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha’n’t be gone long. -You come too.
The journey to this day at the Maribett Farm begins with a simple realization at the birth of our daughter Dominique: that we would be responsible for everything she took into her precious being.
By Robert Frost
We started reading, researching, talking to people, trying out ideas, searching for alternatives that would provide her with the best opportunity for health, vitality and “a good start.”
Seven years later, after the planting of the giant sunflowers and raspberries and 7 blueberry bushes at the starter home antique cape in Taunton, Mass; after joining the Massachusetts Cultivated Blueberries Growers Association and attending snowy, mid-winter annual meetings at the now defunct Hanson Grange; after receiving a letter from David Stewart announcing the sale of the Stewart Blueberry Farm in Kingston, Massachusetts, Nicholas came along. And another Seven-year cycle began, with the help this time of Dominique.
It’s a long story to be sure, and we have learned many things along the way, yet we are here still, and now, to share some of these Experiences Worth Sharing on this journey back to the earth and the center of our beings.
Our Team
Connie Maribett
Connie@maribettfarm.com
After graduating Bridgewater State College, and spending a year of apartment living in Watertown, Ma, with no fresh veggies, (while working at the nearby Fernald School), Connie decided to return to her gardening roots established in her childhood as the daughter of Dominic Marini, Plymouth County Extension Service Small Fruit and Vegetable Specialist. She has been gardening and farming ever since.
While she delights in watching the promise of seeds in her greenhouse transform into plants, she also just likes to play in the dirt. Connie sees garden farming as a good habit, and has supported her horticultural worklife, over the years through human service in human services, where she has collaborated in various therapeutic programs at farm settings and community gardens.
Ronald Maribett
Ronald@maribettfarm.com
From his time working in the cucumber farm in Sunderland, Mass, while attending UMASS undergraduate, many years ago; and while using manure tea to fertilize his Zinnias and tomato plants on a plot behind the house where he rented a room, he has spent the seasons of his adult life engaged in growing and harvesting the fruit of the Earth.
Along the way, he has been a water-keeper, environmentalist, Selectman, environmental manager, teacher, certified Permaculture Designer (Sowing Solutions) and small scale farmer, to name a few. Ron has also travelled to dozens of foreign countries, always seeking out and finding opportunities to engage in growing and harvesting in each one.
Dominique Maribett
Dominique@maribettfarm.com
Dominique applies the gardening and permaculture strategies she has learned to her own little plot in Raynham. She grows asparagus, peas, beans, blueberries and raspberries. She’s also growing strawberries, but the chipmunks have always beaten her to the harvest! Dominique works as the Reading/Education Specialist at The New England Center for Children and serves on the Board of Advisors of New Again, Inc.
Nick Maribett
Nick@maribettfarm.com
Nick works in outreach for a solar company. He considers himself a native to woodlands because he was lucky enough to grow up at Maribett Farm which is wedged between a nature preserve and a public water utility preserve. His experience traveling and participating in a variety of farm applications has given him a special interest in sharing understandings and practical experiences with agricultural land use no matter the obstacle; be it climate, space, resource, or with our culture’s obsession with the green (sod) lawn. He has been experimenting with Shiitake production in the shaded areas of the farm in recent years and looks forward to improving his own self sufficiency practices.
Christine Bulman
Christine@maribettfarm.com
For decades Christine has led independent holistic, experiential education programs for young people on the south shore. In addition to her career as an education director of Unitarian Universalist churches, she regularly facilitates place-based learning with children and youth including gardening, ecology, nature connection, wilderness living skills, and local environmental issues.
At Maribett Farm she will be facilitating workshops for children and adults.
Her offerings will include wildlife tracking, bird language, fire, storytelling, play and exploration, wild edible and medicinal plants, primitive craft, cooking over fire, outdoor mindfulness and herb crafting.
Dave Pepe
Dave is the man who is the neighborhood back yard poultry guru, specializing in heritage breeds.
He is always willing to help and has been part of the Maribett Farm Family for many years.
Billy Alger
Bill has collaborated for many years and he is also part of our family. He has helped us by giving us equipment support.