Mother Hen
With a popular blog and three books, Lisa Steele is spreading the gospel of (pretty) backyard chicken keeping.
Home + Garden
Martha’s Maine Must-Haves
A longtime champion of local artisans and makers, Martha Stewart reveals her top product picks from around the state.
Garden Party
Green-thumbed friends gather among vegetable beds for a laid-back meal in a Phippsburg potting shed.
A Century of Skylands
Looking back at Edsel and Eleanor Ford’s landmark Seal Harbor home.
Pettengill Farm
Situated east of downtown Freeport and accessible only by foot through a mile-long wooded path, Pettengill Farm has stood hidden from the modern world for over 200 years.
Fire and Ice
For descendants of Maine’s 19th-century Finnish immigrants, the sauna ritual has lost none of its sanctity.
Haystack
Built with straw bales, a Mount Desert Island home is practical, energy efficient, and beautiful.
Victorian Revamp
With an eye on a quick sale, a couple updates a tattered old house on Portland’s Munjoy Hill — and they like it so well, they decide to stay.
Thoughts on Home
When I was in kindergarten, the school bus dropped me off at a construction site. My parents were building their dream home on Cousins Island in Yarmouth and I’d spend my afternoons watching from a rock in the muddy yard as my dad worked alongside a carpenter.
Wild, Wild Life
A couple carves a homestead out of the woods in Ellsworth.
Fifty Under $50
In 2016, our love for Maine makers and artisans met our ingrained Yankee frugality. The result? Dozens of brilliant and stylish
Maine-made gifts for your sweetheart, your kids, your friends, your coworkers, even your dog — and none of them will break the bank.
Inside the Olson House
“The House is bleak. There is no softening landscape, no adjacent buildings other than a lonely barn to add the warmth that a cluster provides, only sky as the limitless background to a house that is unadorned. One believes Wyeth when he said of the house, ‘I just couldn’t stay away from there. It was Maine.’ “