HeyJaredMaine Homestead Life
Teaching self-reliance from a Maine homestead. Learn the skills to challenge industrial systems through growing your own food, stewarding your land, and reclaiming independence in the kitchen and garden.
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How to Plant Garlic for Big Bulbs in the Northeast (opens the original)
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When a recipe calls for two cloves of garlic, it means four, right? If you cook the way I do, that adds up fast, which is why garlic is one of the most rewarding places to take back production from the grocery store.It’s simpler than most people realize. Plant six to eight weeks before the ground freezes. Here in western Maine, going on UMaine Extension… Read more
Why Land Access Is the REAL Barrier to a Sustainable Food System (opens the original)
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A land-matching service in Scotland has 700 people interested in smallholding and three tenancies to offer them., an assistant professor of environmental governance at Radboud University in the Netherlands and the writer behind Land Food Nexus, has built his research around that gap, and it keeps leading him to the same conclusion: the skills to farm regeneratively already exist, but the people who have them can’t get onto land. Land matching, business-plan training, and beginning-farmer loans a
Read-Aloud: A New Chapter of This Farmish Existence (opens the original)
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A reader I’ve never met just sent $6,500 toward heating this house through a Maine winter.Somewhere out there is a woman who just paid for my winter, and I've decided she's my fairy godmother. That gift is why this season looked different than every one before it. No housemate to make room for to help cover the mortgage. No off-farm job to squeeze the garden around. Just farming and writing, the way I meant to do it when I bought this place. That’s not nothing for a solo farmer—most operations r
A New Chapter of This Farmish Existence (opens the original)
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Eat the Season: Cream Cheese-Filled Pumpkin Muffins (opens the original)
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This is the first episode of a new recurring series I'm calling “Eat the Season”, where I take something that's actually in season and walk you through what to do with it. For this episode we’re using pumpkin, and celebrating the changing seasons by making cream cheese-filled pumpkin muffins with a crumb topping.For my muffins, I use a combination of stone-ground wheat flour from Maine Grains in Skowhegan and King Arthur Special all-purpose, heavy on the nutmeg and ginger and lighter on the cinn
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