With videos on woodpiles, composting toilets, and canned moose meat, a Solon couple finds TikTok fame.
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Jesse Ellison is a Down East contributing editor.
All over the Pine Tree State, Mainers are parsing their new, unalienable, and ambiguous right to grow and raise what they eat.
Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton, and Queen Elizabeth are among former customers of what is now Waterford Puzzle Company.
Niftier than its tongue-in-cheek name suggests, the grassroots building standard launched in Portland balances cost and energy performance.
On a Windham pond, a party spot becomes the stuff of childhood fantasies.
For the Dixfield artist behind Flower and Jane, creating lifelike blossoms went from a colorful pastime to a fruitful business.
A couple rebuilds a former academic building in Newcastle with salvaged finds.
And that’s what she found in the cozy Rockland cottage she decks out for the holidays.
A maker of bright birdfeeders and other whimsical ceramics lands in Boothbay Harbor.
From its projector room in the top of a lighthouse, the Shotwell Drive-In marries the new and the nostalgic.
In a brave new working and recreating from home era, Mainers are building inventive studios, offices, and hangout spaces in their own backyards.
They're of a piece with Maine's maritime setting, but require some ingenuity to turn into homes.