Jun 20, 2019 | Fiber Studio, Homesteading Skills, Life, Summer time
Join us in welcoming our summer 2019 Fiber Interns. They’ll we working in the studio throughout the week and hosting the Fiber on the Porch demos throughout the summer. Meet the Interns Zelda Mazon-Freedman Zelda Mazor-Freedman is a fiber artist and writer from...
Jun 5, 2019 | Farming, Homesteading Skills, Life
A few years back I wrote a few essays based on a reaction to several frustrating encounters with family, friends and neighbors and their views/perception of farming as a career option. “The Art of Farming” and “Creating a Purposeful Life” offer a response and a...
May 6, 2019 | Farming, Life
Twelve years ago, a year after saying good bye to our former dog, Bernice (our matriarch Llama) would communicate with Nancy (our animal communicator) about the fact that a dog will be coming to me. It would be the male runt of the litter. A week later, I received a...
Mar 28, 2019 | Life, Spring Time
Spring has always been known as the time of year that we all get outside, rake up debris, clean up the ditches, clean the house, discard stuff that has been hanging about that has no purpose. Growing up, spring cleaning at our house included all windows, walls,...
Feb 14, 2019 | Farming, Life
I was recently asked to speak in an upcoming event this spring to a group of investors, entrepeanurs and local businesses about a topic of interest that could potentially get them to invest in an idea, product or project that the farm has and or needs financial...
Jan 23, 2019 | Farming, Life
(changing the way we think about farming) In my work with several professors and teachers throughout the state on a course I entitled “Creating a Purposeful Life”, students are asked to ponder the idea of farming as a viable lifestyle option. As part of their...
Jan 23, 2019 | Farming, Life
Nezinscot’s focus is to provide all who visit with the opportunity to learn about sustainable living and the incorporation of homesteading into everyday life. But, more importantly, we seek to educate about embracing and cultivating a lifestyle with purpose. Having...
Jan 23, 2019 | Farming, Life
Please help support the existence of local family farms by donating to our go-fund me! I grew up on an organic dairy (the first in the state of Maine). Spent mornings, afternoons after school and all my summers through college working alongside both my parents...
Jan 10, 2019 | Farming, Life
As I enter into the new year, both on a personal and business sense, with both being more intertwined when you own a farm-based business and lifestyle, the focus will continue to be circled around those events and projects that bring us closer to our food source, the...
Jan 4, 2019 | Farming, Gardening
Every year I find a new plant (usually a medicinal or culinary herb) to work with from start to finish. Receiving the seeds in the mail from a mail order catalo; then working with it from germination to harvest all while taking notes so that I may better understand...
