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Visitors to my neighborhood in central Maine are often startled by the presence of Amish people.  Locals, though, are accustomed to the yellow road signs with black silhouettes of horse-drawn buggies, tracks of bicycle tires and horse hooves in the snow on the shoulder, and the sight of women in bonnets and long dresses in ...

Does your delicious homemade goat cheese elicit requests to buy it? If so, unless you are a licensed home producer—which likely involved having to spend thousands of dollars on facilities and equipment and jumping through many hoops—unfortunately you probably have ...

Commuting can be tough. People have to deal with a lot of challenges, from heavy traffic to road construction to rude drivers to inclement weather. But not everyone has experienced having to sit in stopped traffic on a bridge waiting ...

  Some residents of one New England state are learning the hard way that water is a scarce resource. Maine – and not the American West as might be expected — is experiencing an extreme drought that is causing wells ...

  PORTLAND, Maine — America’s newest national monument is also one of its most controversial. President Obama turned 87,500 acres of forest land in northern Maine into the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument with the stroke of a pen ...

Food preservation is essential for every homesteader and survivalist, but far too often our stockpiles contain dozens of pre-packaged boxed meals that are tantamount to junk food. But there is a better way to stockpile food, and this week’s guest ...

It is no longer legal for children to play anywhere outside of their parents’ eyesight in many towns in America. One of those places apparently is Westbrook, Maine, where Nicole Jensen is facing criminal charges that could lead to time ...

Maine’s Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case next week involving raw milk that could give important new legal rights to farmers and homesteaders. The court will decide if local governments can exempt farmers from state regulations under “food ...

Even BB guns are now in the crosshairs of gun control activists in state legislatures. A bill in California’s state Senate would require BB guns to be painted a bright color. Meanwhile, a bill in Maine’s state legislature would make ...

Central Maine Power and its Spanish parent company, Iberdrola, are facing a grassroots swell of opposition to its “smart” meters being introduced in New York State and elsewhere. The new meters emit radio frequencies to transmit home usage data to ...