Self-reliance as resistance, not as aesthetic. Practical skills and honest dispatches from a working farm in western Maine.
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Eighty Degrees by Eight A.M.
Sweat dripped off my chin into the soil below as I tightened the clamp on the emitter, connecting the drip tape to the header line on the irrigation system. It wasn’t even eight o’clock yet and already the temperature was well above eighty...
I Was Growing This Farm Long Before I Owned Land
No guest this week—just me in my stuffy office in the middle of a heat wave sharing the unfiltered story of how I ended up farming 53 acres in New Portland, Maine.
It all starts with the woods I disappeared into as a kid to get away from m...
Why I Stopped Tilling: No-Till on a Small Farm in Maine
This post covers why I stopped tilling my garden beds, what that decision looked like in practice on a small farm in Zone 4 Maine, and the no-till methods I use now. If you’re gardening or farming on a small scale and wondering whether no-t...
What Food Insecurity Looks Like in Rural Maine
The Franklin County Food Pantry takes it to the people. Photo courtesy Creative Commons licensing.
There are sixteen community food councils operating across Maine under the umbrella of the Maine Network of Community Food Councils. Not one...
The Skills We've Lost
The Grange movement started because farmers after the Civil War were getting strangled by railroad barons. joined me on Talking Dirt this week to talk about the skills we've lost and why it matters now.
Tim gardens in fits and starts on t...
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Maine farmer on 53 acres under lifetime conservation. I write about opting out of corporate food systems through real skills, real food, and the unglamorous truth about working land.
Writing as a way to explore and create. Fiction, poetry, narrative. Many interests, new and expired. More amateurs than professionals would make a beautiful world.
Author of fiction. Creator of comic characters, podcasts, journals & planners. Like a friend, I help you take the problems that keep you up at night & make them deal-with-able, or, I'll entertain you with story time for grown-ups. Either way.
Rancher and Certified Holistic Management® Educator helping women land stewards align ecology, economy, and self through conscious relationship with the land, so regeneration becomes a lived reality, not just a practice.
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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