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Katy Kelleher
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Katy Kelleher lives in Buxton and is the author of two books, Handcrafted Maine: Art, Life, Harvest & Home and The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption.
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Home + Garden

The Maine Flower Collective Wants You to Pick Locally Grown Bouquets

Farmers across the state are banding together to take on the hegemony of imports in local flower shops. If they succeed, Maine floriculture could hit full bloom.
milk bottle mixers
Food & Drink

Milk Bottle Mixers Go Down Easy, With or Without Booze

Sold at Greater Portland farmers markets and online, the Maine-made mixers often feature seasonal produce.
stacked firewood
Travel & Outdoors

How to Stack Firewood Like a Pro

A good woodpile should offer protection from the elements, airflow, ease of retrieval, and no chance of toppling over.
wood on fire
Travel & Outdoors

Everything You’ve Always Wanted To Know About Heating With Wood

But didn’t know who to ask! If you’re smitten with the romance of a well-made woodpile or a dancing flame, you have a few things to learn.
Travel & Outdoors

How Well Do You Know Your Stoves?

Five variations on the woodstove (and why some are better than others).
fête rhubarb wine from Eighteen Twenty Wines
Food & Drink

Can a Veggie Wine Taste Just Like Regular Wine?

By adding a bit of natural flavoring to its rhubarb wine, Portland’s Eighteen Twenty Wines says it can approximate familiar wine styles.
Skowhegan students at work in the campus’s Blake Library, in 1964
Arts & Leisure

I Spent an Eight-Hour Day Just Listening to the Skowhegan Lecture Archive

In rural Maine, one of the nation’s most renowned arts residencies has amassed a 700-hour trove of artistic insight.
Harvest Maine dips and spreads nestled in a colorful vegetable platter
Food & Drink

Harvest Maine’s Veggie Spreads Are a Little Off-Beet

Made with ingredients formerly considered unsalable, the unconventional dips help reduce food waste.
illustration of axe splitting through a log
Travel & Outdoors

How to Split Firewood Like a Pro

We asked Alissa Wetherbee, a lifelong wood splitter and founder of the logging-sports troupe Axe Women Loggers of Maine, how to chop firewood effectively and safely.
Travel & Outdoors

The Best (and Worst) Types of Wood For Heating Your Home

Not every species performs identically in your woodstove.
boxing cranberries at Birch Bog Farm
Food & Drink

Newbie Farmers Preserve a Pick-Your-Own Organic-Cranberry Operation in Western Maine

Cranberries sold fresh need to be dry-harvested, which is how it’s done at Birch Bog Farm.
Jen Levin, founder of True Fin Seafood
Food & Drink

Can True Fin Buoy Maine’s Floundering Groundfish Fleet?

The Portland specialty seafood dealer is trying to change the paradigm of Maine groundfishing.
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