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Homestead Voices
There are so many wonderful bloggers sharing their homesteading life on the web. In this blog series, Behind the Homestead Blog, we take readers behind the screen into the lives and passions of the writers who make up the homesteading blogosphere.
It’s an international life here on Rusty Metal Farm
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Canning tomatoes like your grandmother did isn’t a good idea
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Q&A: Are land management plans required in Maine?
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I tried making mozzarella from scratch. Here’s how it went.
I love mozzarella. I love it melted over hot pizza, doused with olive oil in caprese salad and sprinkled with breadcrumbs in eggplant parmesan. I could eat a hunk of mozzarella like an apple if I weren’t worried about the gastrointestinal!-->…
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What Rusty Metal Farm means to me
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Welcome to Farm to Kitchen Table
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Welcome to Sam Tries Things. I’m Sam.
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Why do I choose to live in rural northern Maine?
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A glimpse into life in northern Maine
One of the first things people from out of state say to me when I tell them about my life in northern Maine is, “You are so lucky to have all that fresh lobster.”
This inevitably leads to a bit of a geography lesson which often begins!-->!-->!-->…
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The characters of Rusty Metal Farm
You know how some people can talk for hours about their kids or grandkids? All the while showing photos or videos of them taken with their smartphones?
That’s not me. I don’t have children or grandchildren.
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A look at life off-grid
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Welcome to Rusty Metal Farm
If I had to sum up Rusty Metal Farm in one succinct sentence, it would be this: It’s never dull.
I kind of wish it was dull some days.
Rusty Metal Farm has been my home along the northern Maine-Canadian border for close to four!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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