Maine youth working in Aroostook County farm fields learn work ethic early on, watching their brothers and sisters and parents toil in the sun, a labor of love, survival.
Maine blueberries raked and harvested by local youth and migrant workers.
Maine farm vegetable stands offer fresh produce and taught me lessons about people, dealing with the public.
It’s not all pretty. Raising your own food, building your own home. Could your teach your children life skills in a Maine farmstead that is a life reliant more on your abilities, patience and respect for the weather than dependency on material things or services?
Hard day at school, and after hopping of the bus, I enter the farm house met by the smell of mom cooking fresh chocolate donuts.
This is one of many fond childhood memories. No doubt your mom made some dishes like no other since. Potato salad baked beans we grew, and home made bread was another family [...]
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