Highfields was a lofty dream. It began in 1988, when the owners stumbled on a "For Sale" sign at an 11-acre wooded lot. With their 3 young boys, they began an annual camping tradition: staking tents, cutting down trees, lugging in drinking water, having bonfires, jumping off the neighbor’s dock into the cold Maine water. Ten years later, they built a small cabin; still no water or electricity. Twenty years later (still lugging that water!) they purchased the Point, an 18-acre adjacent parcel with rolling fields down to the tidal river. They cut more trees, dug a pond, planted meadows—slowly transforming the woodlot into a saltwater farm.

In 2010, they discovered Knickerbocker Group and the next leg of their adventure began! Now working with 29 acres, we found the perfect spot for their home: the top of the knoll, exactly where the owners had decided to build their cabin in the woods all those years ago. In the saltwater farmhouse, you can feel the intimacy and shelter from the close woods to the north, capture filtered views of the river to the east, and take in long sweeping views down the hillside, to the relocated cabin on the meadow’s edge, to the saltwater beyond.

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