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Features
Garden Party
A group of green-thumbed friends gathers among lush vegetable beds for a laid-back meal at Elizabeth and Marty Lakeman’s cozy potting shed behind their Phippsburg home.
By Sarah Stebbins
Mother Hen
With a popular blog and three books, Lisa Steele is spreading the gospel of backyard chicken-keeping. We pay a visit to her Dixmont hobby farm and meet her garrulous brood.
By Virginia M. Wright
A Slice of Culture
The time for Maine cheese is now. Whether you prefer it sharp, funky, hard, soft, or even drenched in herbed olive oil, someone makes it just down the road.
By Virginia M. Wright
Reaping What They Sow
As traditional fisheries stare down climate-induced disaster, aquaculture could be Maine’s next great industry. So why aren’t more fishermen seafarming?
By Mary Pols
Departments
Where in Maine?
Connect
The Mail
North by East
Opinions, Advisories, and Musings from the Length and Breadth of Maine
Down East Dispatches
News You May Have Missed
Cabin Fever
Maine Camps Meet Reality TV
At the Helm
A Pioneering Boatyard GM
Talk of Maine
Who’s Leading Today’s Land
Conservation Movement?
Dooryard
Living the Maine Life
Home
Recipe
Garden
Making It in Maine
Lunaform’s Garden Urns
Critters
Beetlemania: The Bug Invasion
Room With a View
Guide
What to Do in Maine This Month
Dining
Reads
Under-the-Radar Maine Journals
Goods
Music
Fiddling with PSO Pops
From Our Archives
On the cover: Martha Stewart at her Skylands home. By Pieter Estersohn
Additional photos: Chuck Baker, Matthew Hranek, Benjamin Williamson, Bryan Gardner