Vision

Pine Mountain Farm is the first agritourism destination of its kind in Maine — combining a Bourbon House, a vineyard, and mountain lodging on one staffed farm in Gilead, in the White Mountains foothills next to National Forest.

What we’re building

Lead experiences: lodging (yurts and cabins), Bourbon House tasting (stills in a separate annex), and ice-wine grapes with on-farm bottling — on a staffed working farm with livestock (Morgan horses, sheep for wool, turkeys for eggs, Berkshire pigs for meat) and a farm-owned barndominium (IntegSec HQ lease plus farm staff housing). High-tech throughout; humans lead, robots scale.

Quiet chapels and Stations of the Cross trails will be on the land for guests who want to discover them — not the front of the story.

How we run it

Humans own expertise, knowledge, and important decisions — and can perform every task a robot can. Full scale needs robots. The farm must stand alone with competitive full-time pay; owners are not day-to-day operators.

Human decisions, robot scale. People-led judgment; robots for throughput. Never claim full scale without robots — and never hide that humans lead.

Advisor

Dion Olmstead, Maine SBDC, supports the business plan and bank meetings. He has staging login access (password PineMountainInternal) so he stays current with vision, timeline, maps, and plan drafts. See Partners.

Income-first phases (preview)

Multi-year staging — do not stand everything up at once. Full detail on the Timeline.

Phase 0

ASAP site prep

Septic/CEO/fiber checks + logger job (EX-08 zones).

Phase 1

Livestock core

Fencing + livestock + metal storage; Yurt 1 early foothold.

Phase 2

Barndominium

Farm-owned; IntegSec lease + farm staff housing.

Phase 3

Vineyard

Ice-wine trial blocks; plant early once pads allow.

Phase 4

Distillery

Bourbon House remodel + Zone B still annex.

Phase 5

Lodging expansion

Remaining yurts/cabins; quiet trails and small chapels as on-site discovery.

Property at a glance

306 Bog Road, Gilead, ME 04217. Tax cite: Map 3 Lot 35 = 46.7 acres + Lot 35A = 1.7 acres ≈ 48.4 assessor acres. Maps and logger zones on Property.

This staging site does not take reservations or publish public rates. No booking CTAs.