maine farming: Your Cow Wanders Off Your Farm, Your Withered Crops Need Fertilizer..Talking FarmVille. - 01/24/10 02:40 AM
     The Facebook game FarmVille has a huge following. There are 100 million users of this rural based agricultural cyber day on a farm time burner. This FarmVille tune will play in your head in a loop if you venture in to set up your own spread, your own virtual farm. Over the last few months, folks have sent me messages about helping them find a wandering farm animal, have gifted me a fruit tree and made pleas for help fertilizing puny plants. I grew up on a farm, own one and still intially thought these folks have way way too … (7 comments)

maine farming: Ever Think Of Food As Vital To The US's National Security. Think About It. - 01/08/10 08:44 AM
Money in the bank if it won't buy anything has little value, is only good for starting a fire. When you really reduce it down to what you need..the Lexus, Rolex, Hummer and a box full of precious jewelry is not that useful. The condo is the islands, the vacation place in Colorado or Morocco is not very useful, helpful if you are starving. You worry about high fuel prices, gas and oil eating in to your monthly budget. Think if food was added to the financial strain. If it sky rockets and is in a short supply. Plus not knowing … (4 comments)

maine farming: (Drumming Side Of Coffee Can Filled With Grain) Here Sirloin, Rump Roast...You Too London Broil. - 12/16/09 11:49 PM
     You used to work in corporate America. Driven, obsessed, the top of your game. A tiger in your profession. Well known, intense, consumed. But as you approach the half century club on your birth certificate, you decide to downshift your life. To slow it down and change the scnery 180 degrees. Your brother Bob thought you were crazy when you first brought up the subject of selling out, moving to Northern Maine to own a patch of dirt.
     A farm that was pretty much self sufficiency living, self sustaining. Or as close to that goal as you could get. … (3 comments)

maine farming: Maine Growing Season...How Long, What's Grown, Where's the Market? - 11/10/09 02:44 AM
     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 … (5 comments)

maine farming: (Leafing Thru Snow Sled Magazine) New Models, Lightly Snowing In Northern Maine This Morning. - 10/22/09 01:23 AM
     When you live in Aroostook County Maine, outdoor winter Maine recreation is a big deal. Yesterday I slowed the Jeep as I passed Tidd's Sport Center, eyeing a row of multi colored snow machines..of "pre-owned"snowmobiles, and across the road, a ME potato farming operation was moving slowly across a field, harvesting gold spuds to store for the winter. 
     To live in Aroostook County, in the Houlton Maine area means winter is not a time of hibernation. Just one of the four seasons and for many, the one we like the most.
     Snow skiing, snow sledding, ice fishing, playing … (5 comments)

maine farming: Soil, Land, Acreage...Like People, Soils Are Different. - 04/10/09 11:11 AM
     The White House vegetable garden is a big one. The cost to grow some first family produce about the expense for four people to eat at a swanky restaurant the media reports. You are starting seedlings to transplant and have toyed with the idea of growing more food to sell; buying a farm for critters or crops dreamed about. What do you look for? You thought all soils were the same right?  Wrong. Like people, soils are different. Some soil profiles show slow drainage or some clay in the make up. Great for a pond to hold the water, lousy for crops … (0 comments)

maine farming: Demand For Food To Increase....Are You Hungry? - 04/04/08 10:32 PM
     This country has a cheap food policy.  The farmer is at the beginning of the food production but there are lots of middle men in the process to get the vittles served on your dinner table.Organic food production is rising and oats, wheat and corn acreages are increasing. The USDA has not made a decision on whether land in the CRP (Conservation Resource Program) or soil bank program might be released for crop production if supplies tighten nationally.  Corn prices have increased and diversion to gas production is part of the reason.  But with rising fertilizer and fuel costs, farmers are adjusting … (0 comments)

maine farming: Maine Maple Syrup Shack Open House Happens In March! - 03/15/08 03:14 AM
    Always the fourth Sunday in March, open house for Maine's Maple Syrup Producers is a rite of Spring in the Pine Tree State.     As a kid, my Dad owned an 80 acre woodlot in Ludlow and we tramped up to hang the buckets on the spout taps on a variety of maple trees.  The woodlot was in the family primarily for a wood burning source of heat since the 1920's. Also had large maples on the farm driveways too that we tapped each late winter / early spring.  A lot of work to boil down the sap for the finished … (8 comments)

maine farming: Owning A Maine Hobby Farm..Have The Tractor, Like The Outdoors But..... - 01/28/08 12:15 PM
  
These little animals are sooo cute.But are you sure about raising beef, or other small animals or milk cows that need your attention seven days a week with your new Maine hobby farm?  Growing acres and acres of christmas trees is intense at harvest prior to the holiday too. Worrying about the weather being cold enough three days in a row to avoid spillage and other factors.  No...what else..can you do that won't tie you down but still give you a sense of being a productive farmer?  Grow potatoes and go into commercial farming in a big way? No...no to … (0 comments)

maine farming: Maine Farming, Hard Work But In Your Blood...This Video Will Pull At Your Heart! - 01/06/08 04:56 AM
     Maine farming...difficult  work, long hours, little pay and getting harder and harder.  Dairy farming especially is the most grueling. Few days off unless you have coverage and a big family.  Struggles from small farming where your financial gain or total loss of that farm is completely dependent upon a slew of factors way way beyond your control. Poor weather, broken machinery during critical harvest time, health considerations as you get older, rising costs of operations and this country's cheap food policy.  This video says it is not your life but what you pass on...its the love of "family" and passing … (0 comments)

maine farming: Maine Hobby Farm And Homesteading In Mind? Grab One Of These! - 11/05/07 01:40 AM
    Sold a home recently that had one of these in the garage...M Farmall tractor with a snowplow and chains.  This baby may look in need of paint but don't let the old faded looks scare you.  It will work all day long on five gallons of gas plowing up the rear field.  A super M Farmall has alot more power and looks the same.  Try to avoid a narrow front end as when you hit a rock in a field, it will nearly tug your thumbs off.  You can buy one of these for $1000 or less..which is close to … (1 comments)

 
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