On Saturday morning, November 7, Scarborough Land Trust will be at two events in different parts of town. On Broadturn Road, it owns the farm where a fall maker's market opens at 9 a.m. In Oak Hill, it is one of the offices on Plaza Drive, where it will run a bandana-decorating table and read a story at 11 a.m. for the Oak Hill Community Fall Crawl.
Both events are small, and both last a single morning. Taken together, they show how the town's best-known conservation group works in two settings. One is a farm it has held for more than two decades. The other is an office plaza next to the Route 1 and Route 114 shopping area.
The morning, hour by hour
The two events overlap, so the timing works out well. The market runs 9 a.m. to noon and the crawl runs 10 a.m. to noon. Starting on Broadturn Road and ending in Oak Hill gets you to both.
| Time | Where | What's happening |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. to noon | Broadturn Farm, 388 Broadturn Road | Unexpected Goods, a fall maker's market |
| 10:00 a.m. to noon | 25 Plaza Drive, Oak Hill | Oak Hill Community Fall Crawl |
| 11:00 a.m. | Scarborough Land Trust office, 25 Plaza Drive, Unit 6 | Story time reading |
Broadturn Farm's own events page lists the market as November 7th, 9AM to 12PM. That matches the Land Trust's listing. The Land Trust's crawl listing says the Oak Hill event is free.
Start at the farm the Land Trust bought in 2004
Broadturn Farm doesn't belong to the people who farm it. Scarborough Land Trust bought the former Meserve Farm from the Meserve family in 2004, a property of 434 acres. In 2006, according to the Land Trust's history timeline, it chose John Bliss and Stacy Brenner to farm the land, and they renamed it Broadturn Farm.
The Land Trust's Broadturn Farm page explains the setup. It leases the farm buildings and part of the land to Bliss and Brenner, who live on the farm and grow certified-organic vegetables and field-grown flowers. Some of the cropland is subleased to other farmers.
That sublease connects to Saturday's vendor list. Broadturn Farm's about page names Feastland Farm as one of the farms sharing the land-trust property. Feastland Farm says it began its first season in 2025 on a three-acre plot it subleases from Broadturn, across the street from the main farm. Farmer Addison Wagner and printmaker Anastasia Inciardi started it together.
So on Saturday, the Land Trust owns the land, Broadturn hosts the market, and Feastland, which leases from Broadturn, brings the vegetables.
What's actually at Unexpected Goods
The Land Trust's event listing describes the market as handcrafted goods, local products and farm-grown offerings "from Broadturn community members and friends of the farm." It names four vendors:
- Broadturn Flowers & Merch
- Milkweed Coffee Roasters
- Feastland Farm Veggies
- Inciaridi Machine Restock
The listing also mentions flowers and paper flowers, candles, greeting cards, ceramics and bolo ties. There will be a fire to warm up by, coffee from local vendors Emma & Jennilee, and fresh vegetables from neighboring Feastland Farm.
With only a handful of vendors, the market will feel more like a farm open house than a fairground craft show. It also comes early in the season. The first Saturday of November is well ahead of the December rush, which makes this a good time to pick up cards, candles or ceramics for gifts. And because the flowers are Broadturn's own field-grown crop, they come from the same ground you're standing on.
Then drive to the Land Trust's other address
At Broadturn, the Land Trust is the landowner. In Oak Hill, it shares a building with the other offices at 25 Plaza Drive.
The Land Trust announced its move to 25 Plaza Drive, Unit 6, on August 1, 2024. That October, the Press Herald reported that the group was holding open houses to show off the new location. The organization already had ties to the neighborhood. Its history notes that in 2009 it was given a small office at 7 Oak Hill Terrace.
The crawl is a chance to see the plaza businesses as neighbors, and the Land Trust's listing puts it that way. Visitors can stop at local businesses around the plaza for activities, offers and refreshments, "and discover all that the Oak Hill community has to offer." At the Land Trust's office, the plan is all-ages bandana decorating and the 11 a.m. story time.
One of its neighbors has published its own plans. Scarborough Direct Primary Care's crawl post, dated October 14, 2026, lists these activities at 25 Plaza Drive:
- A guided stretch
- A BMI and blood pressure screening
- Bandana decorating
- Making a pumpkin pie cup
- Special offers and refreshments
Bandana decorating appears on both the Land Trust's list and the medical practice's list. That suggests the businesses coordinated their plans for the crawl.
Why the order matters
If you have kids with you, plan around story time. The 11 a.m. reading is the one fixed appointment of the morning. Arriving at Broadturn close to 9 a.m. gives you a solid stretch at the market before the drive to Oak Hill. You'll still get there in time for the reading, with an hour left in the crawl afterward.
If you go the other way, you'll reach the market in its last hour, after the 10 a.m. crawl start and the 11 a.m. story time. Small markets often thin out toward the end, so starting at the farm makes sense.
The Land Trust's calendar after Saturday
November 7 starts a busy stretch for the Land Trust. Its events calendar lists these dates through mid-December:
| Date | Event | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Sat., Nov. 14 | Group walk, free | Meets at the Eastern Trail parking lot on Pine Point Road |
| Sat., Nov. 14 | Invasive plant workday | Blue Point Preserve |
| Wed., Nov. 18 | Story time featuring wild turkeys, free with ticket | Land Trust headquarters |
| Sat., Dec. 12 | Seasonal open house, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Listed on the Land Trust's events calendar |
The Blue Point Preserve workday continues the habitat restoration work already underway there. Volunteers will cut and pile brush, bag berries, dig out stumps and roots, and cut bittersweet vines. The Land Trust asks volunteers to bring water, a snack and work gloves.
At the November 18 story time, the Land Trust will read Gobble, Gobble: One Year in the Life of a Wild Turkey, followed by a feather-inspired craft. When the calendar was captured, eight tickets were left.
The Nov. 14 walk starts on the Eastern Trail, which got a lot more useful this year. We covered the new off-road connection through Scarborough Marsh in August.
The December 12 open house is a chance to meet the people who run the organization. The Land Trust is inviting the public in for snacks and refreshments, to connect with neighbors, and to meet board members and Executive Director Andrew Mackie.
Between the Nov. 7 crawl and that open house come a work morning at Blue Point Preserve and a walk on the Eastern Trail.
The Scoville Foley Team is glad to see Broadturn Road and the Oak Hill plaza on the same Saturday's calendar. If you'd like more Scarborough weekends like this one, our Scarborough community guide collects the places around town that are worth a morning. For questions about the town or your own corner of it, reach out to Amy Foley. Contact Us.
