It is first and foremost a home to several artists, writers and gardeners. The land is managed as a small-scale diversified homestead farm. Our goal is to make the land here productive for the dietary and creative needs of those who live and work here, while improving the overall health of the soil and water for the benefit of the surrounding ecosystem.

At the crux of what we aspire to is a real balance between purposeful work and enjoyment. We feel that prioritizing in this way results in an experience for visitors that is creative, and at times challenges the notion of what a farm ought to be. We are interested in the ways that alternative relationships to time and economy invites different relationships to self, land and community. As a dynamic site for learning and making, the farm invites different forms of intelligence left out in other places to transform the nature of the conversation.

Merging aspects of productive market gardening with permaculture design, the growing space is small, amounting to less than half an acre total. This also allows for more pasture access for our flock of Icelandic sheep. Visitors should arrive ready to view a living, fluid agricultural experiment that is always changing. We hope that students will leave feeling as inspired by what they have learned and seen as we feel every day that we enjoy this creative collaboration with this place.

Saipua matriarch, Susan Ryhanen began making soap as a hobby in 1999 in her basement using olive oil from the grocery store and a shoebox as a mold. The hobby grew into a small business called Creekside Soaps which sold soap as well as custom engineered soap making supplies, designed by Susan's husband Pentti.

In 2004 Susan’s daughter Sarah and her partner Eric suggested a re-branding of the soap - and SAIPUA (derived from the Finnish word for soap ‘saippua’ and a nod to Pentti’s heritage) was formed. For almost two decades, soap has served as a backbone for the myriad endeavors at SAIPUA and Worlds End Farm.

As we've added to the workings of the farm, our offerings have expanded beyond handcrafted soap and body oil to wool and sheep products, ceramics, seasonal pantry items and tabletop decor.

Wool products and sheep pelts come from our growing flock of Icelandic sheep. We see the flock through lambing in April, rotational grazing all summer, to shearing and eventual culling in the fall. Cull sheep are butchered for our freezer, and their pelts are salted and dried on site before being tanned by our friends at Bucks County Fur in Pennsylvania. The fiber and pelts we offer to you here are soft, powerful reminders of the life cycle of the farm.

Teas, cookies and jams rotate into the shop seasonally, produced in the kitchen at Worlds End or in collaboration with our friends and local farmers.

In our ceramics studio housed in the milking shed of our 1875 barn, we craft soap dishes designed by Object & Totem. Glazed with custom Saipua colorways, the dishes are shaped and fired on site. We occasionally offer one-off ceramic objects and vessels, depending on what our artists-in-residence and other visitors have been up to in the studio.

We never set a table at Worlds End without candles, and though we don't make them ourselves (yet) we're glad to offer hand-dipped tapers in unique, saturated colors sourced from a small producer in Maine.