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Landscaping & site work in New Gloucester, Maine.

New Gloucester is farm-and-forest country at the northern edge of Cumberland County: about 5,700 people on 47 square miles, settled in 1736 and incorporated in 1774. Its three villages are New Gloucester, Upper Gloucester and Shaker Village, where the Shaker community sits beside Sabbathday Lake. Pineland Farms is here too, and the Royal River drains the town on its way to Casco Bay.

The median home was built in 1991, nearly a third since 2000, and 83% are owner-occupied. Most new houses go up on large lots, often carved out of woods or old fields, so the work here is usually clearing, excavation, septic and building a first lawn.

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New Gloucester at a glance

Villages
New Gloucester, Upper Gloucester, Shaker Village at Sabbathday Lake
Lot minimums
Farm and Forest 5 acres; Rural Residential 2 acres; Village 1 acre per home
Groundwater
Groundwater Protection Overlay District covering aquifers and recharge areas
Housing
Median home built 1991; ~31% built since 2000; ~83% owner-occupied
Tree quarantines
Emerald ash borer, hemlock woolly adelgid, spongy moth, white pine blister rust
Hardiness zone
5b (2023 USDA map)

Big lots, by design

New Gloucester's 2026 Zoning Ordinance keeps the town rural on purpose. The Farm and Forest district requires five acres per lot. Rural Residential, Residential C and the Limited Residential Shoreland district require two, and even the Village district requires an acre per home. A new house here usually means a long driveway, a cleared house site, and a septic system and well on the same parcel.

That makes the order of work important: clear only what the plan needs, dig the foundation and septic so spoils can be reused for grading, and finish with loam and seed so disturbed ground does not sit bare through a storm.

Protecting the groundwater

The zoning ordinance includes a Groundwater Protection Overlay District and defines the town's aquifers and aquifer recharge areas. On top of that, New Gloucester has its own ordinances on mineral exploration, excavation and land removal, and on timber harvesting standards. There is also an Upper Village water service ordinance, a reminder that much of the town relies on wells.

For landscaping, that points to low-input lawns: a soil test before any fertilizer, lime to correct Maine's typically acidic soil, and phosphorus only when the test calls for it. The town's pesticide rule requires applications to follow state Department of Agriculture standards.

Lawns and trees inland

New Gloucester is in zone 5b on the 2023 USDA map. On cleared ground, UMaine Extension's lawn guidance fits well: four to six inches of topsoil, a pH near 6.0–6.2, and a seed mix leaning on fine fescues where soil is sandy, dry or shaded. The best seeding window is mid-August to mid-September.

The Maine Forest Service lists New Gloucester in its quarantines for emerald ash borer, hemlock woolly adelgid, spongy moth and white pine blister rust, and the town even keeps a Dutch elm disease control ordinance. On wooded lots, it pays to know which trees to keep before the clearing starts.

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