The Community Garden at Sea Call Farm

We’re members of a community that grow vegetables, fruits and flowers on a property owned and managed by the Town of Orleans. We use organic and primarily no-till practices and we enjoy helping one another and sharing in the fun. Check out our About page to learn more.

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Three Community Gardens in Orleans

This website is primarily about the Sea Call Farm community garden on Tonset Road, but the Town of Orleans owns and manages two other community garden properties as well, one on Hopkins Lane and the other, Putnam Farm, on Rock Harbor Road.

The three property locations are provided below, courtesy of Google Maps.

Sea Call Farm

82 Tonset Road, Orleans, MA

Hopkins Lane Garden

54 Hopkins Lane, Orleans, MA

Putnam Farm

239 Rock Harbor Road, Orleans, MA

Putnam Farm Garden

Sea Call Farmhouse on Tonset Road in Orleans, MA

100-Year Anniversary

Sea Call Farm and its 1921 farmhouse are celebrating a 100-year anniversary. The 6.35-acre property was purchased by the Town of Orleans in 1987 for conservation, open space and recreation purposes. It’s one of only four listed historic properties in Orleans. The home and outbuildings are lived in and maintained by private citizens. We as members are fortunate that we can share in the property’s beauty by working the Sea Call community garden.

Sea Call Farm Land Management Plan

Organic Practices

We use only organic practices at Sea Call Farm garden. Non-organic chemical herbicides are prohibited on the property and only organic pesticides may be applied to crops.

We’re working on adding rain water capture for the garden area and most of Sea Call gardeners have switched to a no-till approach with winter cover crops of peas, oats, and crimson clover.

Check out our Cover Crops post!

"I grow plants for many reasons: to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty, or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow."

– David Hobson

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul."

– Alfred Austin

"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to garden and the whole neighborhood gets tomatoes."

– Unknown

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

– Audrey Hepburn

Latest from the Blog

Our blog is managed by a number of the Sea Call Farm community gardeners. The three most recent post summaries are available below. Click here for information about upcoming events associated with the Sea Call Farm community garden.

Spring Sea Call Pot Luck Social

by Bill Cummins | May 21, 2023

The 2023 Edition of the Sea Call Farm community gardening group held a Spring pot luck dinner at our gracious hosts' Andrea and Tim Howell's home on May 21st. It was a wonderful evening with great food and plenty of camaraderie. Thanks to the Howells for hosting on...

Third Bin Added at Sea Call Farm

by Kristyna Smith | Apr 3, 2023

There's news from Kristyna Smith that a third bin has been added for garden waste at Sea Call Farm. It's the one furthest from the driveway. The current bin set up is as follows: The first bin closest to the driveway is for leaf litter The middle bin is for compost,...

Plants aren’t silent. They make clicking sounds, a study finds!

by Bill Cummins | Mar 30, 2023

Plants make popping sounds that are undetectable to the human ear, according to recordings made in a new study — and they make more sounds when thirsty or under other kinds of stress. The research shakes up what most botanists thought they knew about the plant...

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