Maine Homestead Life
Sam(antha) Burns, Night Shift Writing, Ashley MartinTeaching 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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| Issues | 205 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Womanhood on the Land
It was just a bag of feed. Fifty pounds, same as always. But everything felt heavier—and not because the bag changed.
It was a bag of feed.
Talking Dirt: Building a No-Till System from Scratch
This week’s Talking Dirt brought Ashley Martin from Farm & Field Guide on—she’s running 40 acres in Central Texas with cattle, donkeys, chickens, bees, and a brand-new eighth-acre garden in its first season. We walked through an entire seas...
Office Hours with Farmer Sam
We jumped from seasonal spring seventies to ninety-some degrees this week—just as I had flats stacked to the ceiling waiting to go in the ground.
So if you’re staring down a heat wave with seedlings still in pots, here’s what’s helped me:...
Read-aloud: Without Wheels, the Farm is an Island
This week’s farm update is about what happens when the wheels under your life disappear.
The borrowed vehicle I’ve been using is going back to its owner—and without it, BraeTek can’t get to work, I can’t get feed for the animals, and a gro...
Without Wheels, the Farm Is an Island
I use a wheelhoe to weed the pathways between garden beds.
Covered in a grime of sunblock, sweat, dirt, and probably no small amount of manure, I wiped my forehead with the back of my arm. Digging down through the mulch with my trowel I fo...
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Authors
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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.
Former business exec who traded slides for soil. Free practical guides for southern homesteading: gardens, animals, bees, land, recipes, and the systems that make it all work. Based in Texas on 40 acres.
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