Maine Homestead Life
Farmer Sam\ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udf3e\ud83d\udc11\ud83c\udf31, Deb at Night Shift WritingTeaching self-reliance from a Maine homestead. Learn the skills to challenge industrial systems through growing your own food, stewarding your land, and reclaiming independence in the kitchen and garden.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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From Truck Cap to Sheep Tractor: Flash Sale for Lumber
Wary of the sharp screws jutting down from the sagging plywood roof, I crouched inside the little salt-box shed we call the “sheep tractor,” using a pick-axe to dig the muck away from the skids. A winter’s worth of hay and sheep manure, com...
What It Costs to Hold This Ground
Nobody shows you the farm spreadsheet. Here's mine—every line item, the real total, and the gap I have to close by October.
Waking to the sound I’d been dreading for more than two weeks, I groaned inwardly. I’d long since learned to recogn...
Homestead Pests and the Things That Go Munch in the Night
I sat down live this week with Deb Sweet, who writes Night Shift Writing and the brand-new Black Sheep Homestead from her little house lot in Chesapeake, Virginia. Two women with two very different setups—my 53 acres in western Maine, her c...
Why You Can't Just Turn Sheep Out onto Spring Pasture
40 of our 53 acres are closed to grazing under the terms of our conservation contract, so we primarily graze on our 10 acre pasture.
I lost one of the lambs yesterday.
She’d been hanging back from the rest of the flock for a few days. No...
I Planted Murphy in the Garden: Live with Farmer Sam👩🌾🐑🌱
Some dogs you bury. Some dogs you plant.
This week’s farm update is the one I didn’t want to write. Murphy—my eleven-year-old farm dog, the one who chased foxes off the chicken coop with the kind of dutiful gusto his breed was built for—is...
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Maine farmer protecting wildlife through a lifetime conservation contract. Writing about REAL food, women's work, and the skills that let us live independently from corporate food systems.
Artist. Writer. Podcaster. Homesteader. Survived late stage capitalism, the patriarchy & at least three cursed group texts. Building a journal & planner brand from scratch; creating an empire from cat hair & caffeine. Forever Louie's mom.
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