Weather and growing season are two big questions Maine real estate buyers ask when emailing, calling or actually visiting our office at 69 North Street in Houlton ME.

     For weather if they are from out of state, never been here but have misinformation, we send this this video. For an overview of New England that has a 120 to 180 day growing season, this website hits the highlights, generalities.

     The Maine Agricultural Site helps point out the popular Maine food stand / farmer's markets vegetables in demand, and the time you need to create them either from seed or as transplants to speed the process up. The state of Maine has many valuable resources in how to start a farmer's market.

     Blight is always a problem in Maine's growing season too. Scope out this site too for everything from Maine Farmland Trust to Maine Organic Farming information. Certain soils are better suited for trees, others for row crops. If the land has lots of ledge, hard rock out croppings, then okay for cattle to graze, raising horses or small animals.

But other than haying and pasturing if there is lots of ledge or even rocks poking thru in lots of place, it's like an iceberg. Looks innocent enough from the terrain view, but the real tale is below the ground.