Highfields

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 started an annual camping tradition: staking tents, cutting down trees, lugging in drinking water, having bonfires, and jumping off the neighbor’s dock into the cold Maine water.

Ten years later, they built a small cabin, still with 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.

Over the years, the homeowners amassed a collection of maritime art and antique furniture that brings a distinctive nautical feel to the saltwater farmhouse. Both avid sailors, the owners met on the Westward; the schooner and that fateful day are now memorialized in the painting over the fireplace.

After all those years living off the land, the owners wanted to maintain a strong connection to the outdoors. A covered porch wraps the waterside. A second floor master suite balcony sits over the screened porch; a fieldstone fireplace warms this outdoor room in spring and fall.