RETREATS
Eighty-three acres on the Medomak. One group on the farm at a time.
Three days, two nights, the whole farm to yourselves. May through October. Up to thirty-four guests sleep on the farm, in seventeen rooms and cabins, taken as singles or shared.
Most weekends belong to our larger celebrations, though a few early-season weekends are open for a retreat. The middle of the week is the quietest time on the farm, with room for the group, the work, and time outside.
Three hours from Boston, an hour from Portland, an hour and a half from Bangor.
What the farm is made for
The farm sets up for the programming you bring. These are the kinds of gatherings it’s built for, with a few ideas to start from. The days will be yours, and so will the farm.
Culinary
A kitchen garden, workshop stations, a commercial kitchen, and Maine growers and makers to meet, on the farm and down the road. For groups built around food.
Wellness & Movement
Multiple movement locations, a full yoga kit for up to twenty guests, woodland sauna, wood-fired hot tub and cold plunge, and quiet. For leaders bringing their practice, or hosts who want to plan their own days around wellness.
Creative
Big tables, long windows, an off-grid woodland library, and places to break out indoors and out. For groups with something to make, think through or finish.
A retreat here can be a company, a teacher and their students, or a group of friends, family or neighbors who want a few days on a farm together. Bring your own program and your own people, and the whole farm is yours for those days. If you’d like ideas or introductions, we’ll share the Maine makers and teachers we trust.
Corporate retreats and team offsites
Seventeen rooms across eighty-three acres. Mornings for the work in the Glass House, breakouts in the Event Barn and the yurt, smaller huddles in the Farmhouse. The afternoons go to the farm: a workshop, the garden, the sauna, the river. Any of the three kinds of retreat works for a team that wants to step away together and come back with the work moving.
Host your own retreat
You bring the people, whether that’s a practice, a team, or the friends and family you’ve been meaning to get together. The whole farm is yours for those days, set up for what you have planned, with the people in Maine we trust to cook and teach.
Room to spread out
Most venues hand you one room. Here a group moves through the whole farm over three days, and every space is set for what the day needs, then reset for the next. The same rooms have been yoga studios, meditation rooms, culinary workshops and long dinner tables.
The Glass House
Heavy timber and glass the full length of both walls. Movement in the morning, workshops in the afternoon, a candlelit dinner on the last night.
The Riverside Yurt
Down by the Medomak, a short walk through the woods. An off-grid creative space and woodland library: desks, art supplies, birdsong, quiet.
The Farmhouse and the Farm Cottage
Small rooms for hosts and leaders to step away.
The spaces in between
The meadow, the woodland clearing, the trails, the orchard, the kitchen garden, the animals, a swimming hole down the road.
Every gathering space has sound and AV, and seating indoors and out. Every space is included. There’s no charge per room.
The Event Barn and porch
Post and beam, with a porch the length of it. Meals, group sessions, workshops.
The Meadowhouse
A woodland sauna for six to eight, a wood-fired hot tub and a cold plunge, at the edge of the field.
Where everyone sleeps
Thirty-four beds in seventeen rooms, all of them yours.
Eleven woodland cabins. Each set as two twins or one king, with the bathhouse a short walk away: four showers, four sinks, four toilets. The queen cabin has its own rustic composting toilet.
The Farmhouse. Four bedrooms. The primary bedroom has its own bath, the first-floor queen a semi-private one, and the two upstairs rooms share a third.
The Farm Cottage. Two bedrooms. The queen room has its own half bath and shares a full bath with the second.
Beds made up before you arrive. A robe and spa towel for every guest.
A day here
A rhythm that has worked here, season after season.
8:30am Movement
9:30am Brunch
Late morning Working sessions, a quiet hour, the sauna
2pm Something to eat
3pm The afternoon workshop
5:45pm Cocktail hour
6:30pm Dinner
Arrive at 2pm on the first day. On the last, brunch, one closing session, and on the road by noon.
The food
Meals come from our preferred retreat chefs, who know this kitchen and have cooked here before. Meals move around the farm, from the Event Barn porch to the Glass House, and for one night, supper out in the woods or the meadow.
Bring your own wine and spirits. We don’t sell or serve alcohol in our event spaces.
Programming
Groups with their own program use the farm however their days need it.
For groups who’d like help building one, we’ll connect you with the farm’s own workshops and with Maine makers, artists and wellness teachers: cheesemakers, millers, oyster growers, painters, sound and movement teachers. Once your date is held, we share our list of the people we trust and set up a planning call to walk the spaces with you.
We make the introductions. Running the event is yours, or add a second pair of hands from us, by the day.
The Rate
From $7,500 a night, midweek, for up to twenty guests. Above twenty, $245 per guest, per night. A 15% property support fee applies to lodging and farm fees, and Maine’s 9% lodging tax to the lodging portion. Two-night minimum. Weekend rates on request.
What’s included
The whole farm, one group, start to finish
Beds made up, linens, towels, a robe and spa towel for every guest
Every gathering space and the Meadowhouse, no charge per room
Mats and props for twenty, tables and chairs, sound and AV
Coffee and tea, all day
A farm host on the property through your stay
The land: trails, river, orchard, gardens
What you bring
A dedicated contact for our team to work with
Your program, or the people from our list you choose
Anyone else working here as a business carries their own insurance, naming Tops’l Farm
How it works
01
Start with a conversation.
Tell us your dates, roughly how many people, and what you need the spaces to do. Then come see it (or schedule a video tour).
04
Billing stays simple.
A date fee, half the balance the winter before your stay, the rest thirty days out. One contact, one schedule, every invoice from our bookkeeper.
02
We send a proposal.
The rate for your dates and group, the spaces that fit, and the people in Maine we’d introduce you to.
05
We plan it together.
One online planning space, a call in late winter, and your final details forty-five days out.
03
Your dates come off the calendar.
A signed agreement and a date fee hold them.
06
You arrive at 2pm.
Beds made, spaces set, your farm host on the property. The farm is closed to everyone else.
Good to know
Your chef. We have several retreat chef partners who would be delighted to cook for your group, or you can bring your own professional, insured chef that we approve. Either way the chef invoices you directly and contracts the kitchen with us. We do not provide direct culinary support.
Alcohol. If it is a hosted bar event, it will need to be handled by a licensed bar service that you contract. For personal use at meals or in lodging, guests are able to bring their own.
Insurance. Anyone working here as a business carries their own, naming Tops’l Farm.