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How to Increase Your Yard’s Biodiversity

Enhancing your lawn with native plants can have a major impact on the surrounding ecosystem.
Jennica Harris feeds her chickens outside the "fluffy butt hut"
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Jennica Harris Loves Her Chickens, So She Built Them a Tricked-Out Home

The “fluffy butt hut" has window boxes, curtains, wallpaper, and a chandelier.
S.L Wadsworth & Son’s old wharf-side spot
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Two Centuries of Selling the Basics in Eastport

Known as the nation’s oldest chandlery and Maine’s longest-running retail operation, S.L. Wadsworth & Son hardware store still supplies the necessities to the city’s homeowners and boat owners.
Exterior of Mario and Kitty Costello's 1948 Camden Cape
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Color Us Charmed By This Boldly Hued Camden Cape

Only a cherry-red door and a sky-blue vintage Beetle hint at the boisterous palette inside.
In the dining room, an espresso-colored table and secondhand chairs she stained to match provide rich counterpoints to delicate, vintage-inspired floral wallpaper, beadboard wainscoting with scalloped trim (rendered in Accessible Beige), and aqua linen curtains
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A Wiscasset DIYer’s Thrifty Renovations Look Like a Million Bucks

But her budget-friendly designs rarely break the bank.
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A Hebron Resident’s High-Voltage Holiday Spectacle Stops Traffic

On Thanksgiving, Dan Powell will set his two acres of woods along Route 124 alight with 62,070 LED bulbs worth of twinkling Yuletide cheer.
Spruce trunks, reimagined as posts, returned to roughly where they stood before the couple cleared the land.
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How 8 Adventurous Homeowners Live Off the Grid in Maine

The range of their approaches is striking — from island cottages with cobbled-together utility systems to a fully electric house of the future
Betsey Telford-Goodwin and a 1925 Amish Star of Bethlehem quilt
Home + Garden

Everything’s Squared Away in Betsey Telford-Goodwin’s Antique-Quilt Shop

Some 700 blankets fill a timber-frame barn attached to her 18th-century York farmhouse.
Drawing of hands holding Blueberry Fields Cooperative
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How Maine’s Largest Resident-Owned Mobile-Home Park Came to Be

Residents of Blueberry Fields Cooperative leveraged a new law (and raised $26 million) to buy the land beneath their homes.
Kimberly Crichton's studio in a former barn on her 4 1⁄2-acre property in Lovell Maine
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An Artist’s Lovell Cottage Came With Some Unwanted Guests

It had stood empty for three years, and mice had the run of the place.
Judy Minaudo standing in the dining room of Kennebunk's James Hubbard House, which is decked out in holiday decor
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Vibrant Holiday Décor and Paint Shine Up a Kennebunk Saltbox

This time of year, candy-colored glass ornaments grace Judy Minaudo's 1751 home, while walls and woodwork in splashy colors and patterns dazzle year-round.
Sarah Whitty measures her prized jumbo pumpkin, Martha Stewart.
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In Veazie, A Grower of Giant Gourds Confronts Hefty Challenges

In her quest to grow a prize-winning fall fruit, Sarah Whitty has battled fungus, nibbling critters, and pest infestations.
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