SHOULD CANADIAN OLIGARCHS DETERMINE WHETHER MAINE BANS DEADLY GLYPHOSATE FROM THE MAINE WOODS? Multinational-m
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SPRING ON THE WAY IN MAINE: PALLETS OF POTATOES READY-TO-SHIP & SUNNY WARM …
SPRING ON THE WAY IN MAINE: PALLETS OF POTATOES READY-TO-SHIP & SUNNY WARM DAYS NOW MELTING SNOW. In the underground cellar, each placarded, stretch-wrapped
“GROWING EPIC POTATOES: EVERYTHING TO KNOW FROM BEFORE YOU PLANT TO STORING THE …
“GROWING EPIC POTATOES: EVERYTHING TO KNOW FROM BEFORE YOU PLANT TO STORING THE HARVEST.” Recently, Joe Lamp’l of ‘Joe Gardener’ dot com fame interviewed Jim about all things potatoes.
You can listen to that interview (59:52) plus read the nice article Joe wrote and posted on his website. Caleb,…
ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER DOLLAR: ANOTHER SATURDAY WOOD PRAIRIE WORKDAY. Except duri…
ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER DOLLAR: ANOTHER SATURDAY WOOD PRAIRIE WORKDAY. Except during planting and harvest the regular crew gets weekends off. However they are coming in today to help to help whittle down a pile of orders at this busy season of peak shipping.
While today may be officially be the first…
GETTING READY FOR NEXT WINTER ON WOOD PRAIRIE FAMILY FARM IN MAINE. As companio…
GETTING READY FOR NEXT WINTER ON WOOD PRAIRIE FAMILY FARM IN MAINE. As companion to yesterday’s post, here is a shot of a delivery of 8.2 cords of ‘second-growth’
Out-of-sight…
MOVING SNOW ONE COLD MORNING ON MAINE’S WOOD PRAIRIE FAMILY FARM. Last weekend …
MOVING SNOW ONE COLD MORNING ON MAINE’S WOOD PRAIRIE FAMILY FARM. Last weekend Caleb worked to make room by digging out a tall snowbank early one chilly morning with our old-timer Michigan Payloader. It’s a big machine and the tires are shoulder high.
The next day – Monday March 15 – an Arctic…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAINE: “AS GOES MAINE SO GOES THE NATION.” Mainer and History Pr…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAINE: “AS GOES MAINE SO GOES THE NATION.” Mainer and History Professor Heather Cox Richardson recounts Maine’s admission to the Union – 201 years ago today – and the agitated, ensuing role Mainers played in helping the country rid itself of slavery.
Please consider this one MUST…
FARM HAND DUMPING BARRELS OF POTATOES INTO STORAGE BIN. Caribou, Maine. Circa 1…
FARM HAND DUMPING BARRELS OF POTATOES INTO STORAGE BIN. Caribou, Maine. Circa 1940. Using double planks mounted on top of the ‘bulkhead,’, a worker rolls an 11-peck cedar potato barrel full of 165-pounds of potatoes and prepares to dump them onto the stack Properly handled and correctly stored…
FIVE-BOTTOM WIL-RICH PLOW – LAST FARM PURCHASE LAST YEAR. We first saw this Wil…
FIVE-BOTTOM WIL-RICH PLOW – LAST FARM PURCHASE LAST YEAR. We first saw this Wil-Rich land plow last May by the side of the road when we used a Saturday while the ground was too wet to work to look at (and then buy) an old Oliver 77 Tractor in Soldier Pond, near Fort Kent.
The plow was still there…
“‘MAKES YOU SICK AT THE STOMACH.'” Texas farmers recount their trials and tribu…
“‘MAKES YOU SICK AT THE STOMACH.'” Texas farmers recount their trials and tribulations and massive financial losses from last month’s ‘Valentine’s Day Massacre’ freeze. In this video (4:26) produced by Texas Farm Bureau, hard-pressed Texas farmers offer their FIRST-PERSON accounts of crop…
