Aroostook County Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/category/living-in-maine/aroostook-county/ Maine Local Community Blog Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:05:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png Aroostook County Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/category/living-in-maine/aroostook-county/ 32 32 Maine Organic Farmers Gardeners Association Farmer To Farmer Conference https://meinmaine.com/2026/02/10/maine-organic-farmers-gardeners-association-farmer-to-farmer-conference/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-organic-farmers-gardeners-association-farmer-to-farmer-conference Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:50:46 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18562 The MOFGA Farmer to Farmer conference held over the past weekend in Portland Maine. MOFGA, the Maine Organic Farmers Gardeners Association offered 30 education sessions at the Portland Holiday Inn By The Bay. Here is the rundown of the 2026 Farmer to Farmer sessions offered. The Farmer to Farmer conference kicked off with a farm […]

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]]> Happy New Year From Maine https://meinmaine.com/2026/01/05/happy-new-year-from-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-new-year-from-maine Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:14:53 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18529 Happy New Year from Maine. Ready to start 2026 with plans for a healthier, happy life? New year, new plan, new set of variables to work around for most folks. You are not alone and Maine is in the top ten places people want to vacation, to make the big move and relocate to this […]

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]]> Do You See Bald Eagles In Maine? https://meinmaine.com/2025/12/01/do-you-see-bald-eagles-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=do-you-see-bald-eagles-in-maine Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:23:24 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18505 Wildlife, water, woods and do you see bald eagles in Maine? You experience it all when you spend time in Maine. If you were living here, you would be already home right? On a short weekend trip or a week’s vacation, you get a taste of living in the state of Maine. But nothing like […]

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]]> Living On A Maine Lake Year Round https://meinmaine.com/2025/11/19/living-on-a-maine-lake-year-round/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-on-a-maine-lake-year-round Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:09:47 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18490 Dig in, learn more and sample another helping of Vacationland, living on a Maine lake year round. Yikes. (Pause, keyboard goes quiet, slurp of early morning black coffee sound). Does that come off a little too vague, lofty or just leave you thinking “people don’t talk that way”? I am sorry, starting again. This Me […]

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]]> Picking Potatoes On A Northern Maine Aroostook County Farm https://meinmaine.com/2025/09/23/picking-potatoes-in-a-northern-maine-aroostook-county-farm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=picking-potatoes-in-a-northern-maine-aroostook-county-farm Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:56:59 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18444 One spud, two spuds, picking potatoes on a Northern Maine Aroostook County farm. Was it hard for kids to head out into the early morning darkness to the Maine potato farm field? What work ethic lessons were learned for youth relied on to get the potatoes basket picked, poured into barrels, trucked from the Maine […]

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]]> International Boundary Between Maine And Canada https://meinmaine.com/2024/12/10/international-boundary-between-maine-and-canada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=international-boundary-between-maine-and-canada Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:21:08 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18211 International boundary between Maine and Canada. Let’s face it, Maine is pretty much sticking up all by itself in the right hand corner of the US. Quebec and New Brunswick Canada surround Maine wherever the rugged rocky coastline does not right? So for someone growing up in a Maine border town like I did in […]

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]]> Fall Foliage Leaf Color Near Peak In Maine https://meinmaine.com/2024/10/07/fall-foliage-color-near-peak-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fall-foliage-color-near-peak-in-maine Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:31:36 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18186 Fall foliage leaf color near peak in Maine. Nothing like the explosion of color in the forest canopy of trees this time of year. This year the lack of water combined with fewer low temperature dips affects the brilliance of Maine fall colors. I live and hunt, peck in Northern Maine, Aroostook County and right […]

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]]> Free Land Homestead Grant, New Settlers To Maine https://meinmaine.com/2024/08/26/free-land-homestead-grant-new-settlers-to-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-land-homestead-grant-new-settlers-to-maine Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:58:13 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18160 Free land homestead grant, new settlers to Maine. The free land Homestead Land Grant Act of 1862. The legislation enacted into law during the Civil War opened up wilderness, vast expanses of acres with little or no population. Land was plentiful and not so valuable. Clearing it, settlements in Maine took a lot of hard […]

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]]> I Just Want To Be Left Alone. https://meinmaine.com/2024/08/11/i-just-want-to-be-left-alone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-just-want-to-be-left-alone Sun, 11 Aug 2024 16:06:10 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18150 I just want to be left alone. Leave me along, just let me be. Hear that desperate plea desire uttered almost daily from Maine real estate buyers. Space, privacy, peace and quiet. In crowded populated areas it may be impossible or just too darn expensive to create it. In rural Maine, not hard at all. […]

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]]> Cheapest Places To Buy A House In Maine? https://meinmaine.com/2024/07/09/cheapest-places-to-buy-a-house-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cheapest-places-to-buy-a-house-in-maine Tue, 09 Jul 2024 13:25:27 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18114 Cheapest places to buy a house in Maine? This Maine real estate market report runs down where you can get your best bang for your housing buck. It also answers other current market questions that come up daily running a Maine real estate office. The lower priced Maine real estate is part of the attraction. […]

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