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Address: One Davis Point Lane
E-mail: landafarm@aol.com
About the Farm
Lester and Audrey Jordan’s two acre farm is small by any standard, but it bustles with activity from early spring
until first snowfall, making up for its size with remarkable productivity. The farm has produced and sold fruit,
flowers, and vegetables for the past 20 years. Pansy, petunia, and geranium seedlings are the first plants started in
the farm’s two greenhouses, and they’re the first products to market in the spring.
No herbicides or pesticides are used at L&A – a fact appreciated by customers who buy its products in Portland’s
popular farmers’ markets. In recent years, the Jordans have sold their produce and cut flowers exclusively at the
markets in city center and Deering Oaks. Despite its long history as a working farm, L&A’s land is considered by
the town to be a house lot rather than a farm, so the Jordans have never benefited from more-favorable farm tax
rates.
L&A borders 22 acres of farmland purchased in 1947 by Lester’s late brother, Ernest. The land is now owned by
Ernest’s widow, Francis. Lester often farms this acreage as well. He says land-sharing has always been common
practice here, and that the combined properties have been cultivated for more than 200 years by a number of Cape
farmers.
Field-fresh Produce Cut Flowers
Romaine, Bibb, Dahlias
Red Leaf, and Iceberg Lettuces Zinnias
Spinach Cosmos
Swiss Chard Snapdragons
Eggplant
Artichokes
Carrots
Beets
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Squash
Pumpkins
History
Lester Jordan grew up in a farmhouse on Two Lights Road, a stone’s throw from the ocean. His father, Raymond
Jordan, owned and worked the surrounding 100 acres. Like most other Cape farmers, the senior Jordan grew
cabbage, lettuce, and squash for the wholesale markets – until the big grocers stopped buying from local farmers in
the 1970s.
Lester says his parents arranged to remain in their home, but were forced to sell the farm to fund their retirement.
The Broad Cove housing development was built on the farmland.
Today, Lester and Audrey Jordan worry that ever-rising land values and the difficulty of making a livelihood from
farming will result in the disappearance of the few remaining Cape farms, but their love and devotion to L&A Farm
keep them planting, harvesting, and hoping that there is a future here for working farms.
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