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Address: 359 Ocean House Road
Contact: Norm Jordan
Email: njordan1@maine.rr.com
Hours: Mid-May through the end of summer, honor system
Products: Pick-your-own flowers, Vegetable and herb seedlings, potted flowers, cut flower bouquets
Norm Jordan refers to the grounds and the roadside retail stand on his two-acre property as simply “The
Farm,” but the “Flower Farm,” might be more apt. Although he offers vegetable and herb seedlings to
customers in mid-May and June, flowers receive most of the attention – and bring in most of the income –
from early spring through the end of summer.
Geraniums, zinnias, wave petunias, Alaska daisies, Rudebeckia, Gloriosa daisies, sunflowers, snapdragons,
cosmos, and other varieties are grown. Customers love to make their own bouquets from the pick-your-
own garden behind the stand. Others prefer to purchase potted plants and cut flowers from the stand.
In late March, the big greenhouse begins to warm and seeds are started. Memorial day weekend marks
the time for planting about three thousand seedlings into the garden, and sowing them has become a family
tradition, with the Jordan children and their friends all lending a hand.
Having always relied on the honor system to receive payment for his products, Norm has some funny tales
to tell. Once he found a 20-dollar bill and three ones. The note attached said, “The three dollars is for two
boxes of seedlings. The 20 is for flowers we picked last summer and never paid for.”
History
The big white house next to the farm stand was built in the late 1880s and purchased by Norm Jordan’s
grandfather in 1920. At the time, the property included land that the town took by eminent domain in the
late l960s, which built Cape Elizabeth High School on it in 1969.
Norm Jordan began living in the house when he was four. It became his own when his father passed away
in 1985. When Norm was a boy, his mother ran the stand “full steam,” selling strawberries and other
produce she collected from local farmers. Norm and his three oldest kids also ran the stand as a farmer’s
market for several years to raise income to help pay college expenses. Today, the flower business serves
primarily as a hobby, but it provides enough income to fund a winter vacation each year.
Contact: Norm Jordan
Email: njordan1@maine.rr.com
Hours: Mid-May through the end of summer, honor system
Products: Pick-your-own flowers, Vegetable and herb seedlings, potted flowers, cut flower bouquets
Norm Jordan refers to the grounds and the roadside retail stand on his two-acre property as simply “The
Farm,” but the “Flower Farm,” might be more apt. Although he offers vegetable and herb seedlings to
customers in mid-May and June, flowers receive most of the attention – and bring in most of the income –
from early spring through the end of summer.
Geraniums, zinnias, wave petunias, Alaska daisies, Rudebeckia, Gloriosa daisies, sunflowers, snapdragons,
cosmos, and other varieties are grown. Customers love to make their own bouquets from the pick-your-
own garden behind the stand. Others prefer to purchase potted plants and cut flowers from the stand.
In late March, the big greenhouse begins to warm and seeds are started. Memorial day weekend marks
the time for planting about three thousand seedlings into the garden, and sowing them has become a family
tradition, with the Jordan children and their friends all lending a hand.
Having always relied on the honor system to receive payment for his products, Norm has some funny tales
to tell. Once he found a 20-dollar bill and three ones. The note attached said, “The three dollars is for two
boxes of seedlings. The 20 is for flowers we picked last summer and never paid for.”
History
The big white house next to the farm stand was built in the late 1880s and purchased by Norm Jordan’s
grandfather in 1920. At the time, the property included land that the town took by eminent domain in the
late l960s, which built Cape Elizabeth High School on it in 1969.
Norm Jordan began living in the house when he was four. It became his own when his father passed away
in 1985. When Norm was a boy, his mother ran the stand “full steam,” selling strawberries and other
produce she collected from local farmers. Norm and his three oldest kids also ran the stand as a farmer’s
market for several years to raise income to help pay college expenses. Today, the flower business serves
primarily as a hobby, but it provides enough income to fund a winter vacation each year.
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