Life on a Maine Coast Farm

A Melancholy Season

October 16, 2022 • coastal farm • fall in maine • maine • maine dairy • maine farm • maine farms • maine life • mainecoast • melancholy • mid coast maine

I literally am astounded sometimes when I watch my does in the barn or out on pasture. No choreographer could duplicate the intricately timed dance of two animals greeting each other.

This is a reposting of a blog entry from Mother Earth News, also reprinted at Resilience. A friend gave me a copy of Down East magazine back before Christmas with a page earmarked. “You’ll die laughing,” she warned me. Turns out, it was a reprint of E. B. White’s “Memorandum,” from One Man’s Meat,published in 1944. I knew of White from his story of a famous pig named Wilbur who befriended a spider named Charlotte in the children’s book Charlotte’s Web. I must have read that book 20 times over as a child. Maybe it was my first inkling toward...

July Sucks

July 26, 2022

Sometimes, farming hurts.

Farm Loss - Goodbye Ricky

October 14, 2021 • animal loss • bald eagles • call ducks • farm accidents • farm pets • maine • maine farms • maine life • mid coast maine

I left the pair together in the barn for the morning. Lucy wouldn’t leave his side. Animals need time to grieve too. I’ve seen this before. Then, in the afternoon, I buried him in the garden, next to their pond. She followed me out, calling for him. She’s still calling today.

Fall in Maine

October 5, 2021 • bald eagles • bantam chickens • coastal farm • coopers hawk • goats • great blue heron • maine • maine dairy • mainecoast • midcoast maine • peninsula • pumpkins • sheep • wool • yarn

Moving through the seasons, fall has laid it’s colorful presence over the landscape.

A Melancholy Season

Thanks E.B. White

July Sucks

Farm Loss - Goodbye Ricky

Fall in Maine