Stonington’s Abby Barrows dialed back a globetrotting research career to take over an oyster farm in her hometown. Now, she’s out to refashion the equipment of her new profession, to keep Maine’s booming aquaculture sector from fouling the waters it relies upon.
Land, Water & Wildlife
The much-admired organization has been keeping it organic since 1971.
How a Down East editor and photographer came to spend an overnight lost in the Maine north woods.
"It turned out everything I had been taught about islands was, in Maine's case, wrong."
The boat was seaworthy. But were they?
On 104 acres in Wales, the farmers of the Little Jubba agrarian commons are demonstrating another model for American agriculture — and replanting what was once uprooted.
Wild blueberries, Maine’s cherished native fruit, help sustain the landscape and ensure that it thrives for generations to come.
Meet Maine’s Bri Dostie, winner of Orvis’s 2020 Breaking Barriers award.
The Arundel guide is an evangelist for electric-powered kayaks.
The little-exalted fish reminds the Laotian-born Mainer of the moose-sized river beasts back home.
The “Tom Brady of fishing flies,” an overachieving underdog, and more.
For 82 years, the sportfishing competition has been luring fishermen to Harpswell in search of Casco Bay’s big prize.