McCaughey Farm Trust

Helen McCaughey owned and operated The McCaughey Farm (now Lupine Farm) for most of her adult life after taking it over from her parents, Tom and Annie McCaughey, when they retired from farming.  She taught high school in New Hampshire and returned home to work at the family farm in Vassalboro every summer tending acres of vegetable and flower gardens, cows, chickens, and apple trees.  When she retired from teaching, she turned to farming full time, and maintained her beautiful, bountiful gardens well into her 80s - providing many a neighborhood youngster with their first job weeding or collecting the harvest.  She kept a roadside stand full of fresh vegetables and shared her love of the land with all that came to visit. 

In that spirit of loving the land and farming it, Helen left her property in trust to ensure that it always remain a farm.  We owe Helen our gratitude for her fabulous legacy and her foresight in seeking to protect this beautiful place for future generations. Every visitor who experiences the wonders of Lupine Farm fulfills her wish to educate people about our connection to our surroundings and the importance of maintaining a good relationship with the land.

Emily Mitchell - Farm Manager, Owner/Operator of Lupine Farm Riding

Emily has come back to her Maine roots to begin a dual career as an attorney in Augusta and as a riding instructor at Lupine Farm which she operates in her hometown, Vassalboro.  She is a graduate of Waterville High School, Princeton University, and the University of Maine School of Law.  An avid rider herself, she has been riding and competing horses for 22 years and has experience in a variety of disciplines.  Emily was a captain of the Princeton Equestrian Team, and she currently competes her horse, Paparazzi, on the Maine Hunter circuit. 

Over the years, Emily has been lucky to ride and train in Maine, Mexico, London, and New Jersey.  She has taught riding in New York City, in Maine at summer camps, and to dudes at the dude ranch where she worked in Colorado.  Other riding experience includes time spent working as a trail guide at an equestrian vacation resort in Spain and a summer writing for a horse magazine in London.  Emily is very excited to be a young business owner in Maine and to have come full circle sharing her love of riding and horses with everybody who comes to Lupine Farm.