BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 24, 2025
A former Rockport dairy farm will be repurposed for farmland conservation and mid-market housing. Erickson Fields Preserve, a still-working farm on Route 90, has been conserved by Maine Coast Heritage Trust since 2009. Last year, the trust acquired 6 acres across the road that was once the farm’s family homestead; on Friday, it donated an acre of that land along with an 1850s farmhouse and old dairy barns to the Midcoast Regional Housing Trust, which plans to renovate the existing building and build new units. The remaining 5 acres of the homestead property will be added to the Erickson preserve.