“You don’t look like a farmer,” he said to me. I smiled and laughed and gave my go to response, “Oh, I just clean up good.” I am used to comments on my appearance and shrugging them off. I am after all a woman, and if you are a woman you know that outside commentary […]
One of my fondest childhood memories is of making Christmas wreaths with my grandmother. Each November, after a good cold snap, we would go out into the woods and gather fir boughs. We would make beautiful wreaths for our own front doors and gift several more to friends and relatives. Everyone loved them, and I […]
My family made a commitment to agriculture that came long before I was even an idea. I am the 6th generation to be raised on our farm in Fort Fairfield, Maine. A classic Aroostook farm, it has fields for planting potatoes, trees for acres, and by the time I came around, a tiny fish hatchery […]
