Lady bugs in Maine, seems like more than usual this year?
As Mainers open up their Maine lake camps and homes, more lady bugs are on the scene this spring.
Slow moving and not bothering anyone but showing up in greater numbers.
Has anyone else noticed lady bugs attracted to the light on windowsills, over doorways at Maine waterfront seasonal properties?
Lady Bug In Maine, Seeing More Of Them Than Normal This Year?
I grew up on a family farm and my Dad always told the four boys lady bugs are good for potato growers.
The Asian lady beetle imported back in 1916. Brought to America deliberately by the USDA to help tackle an aphid pest problem on pecan, other nut trees. Here in Maine, in the 1970’s, the seven spot lady bug was welcomed in
to help battle our potato aphid problem. The aphids were wreaking havoc with the potato plant leaves and hurting yields, costing Maine potato farmers hard earned money.
Are You In This Dream About Maine Vacations? Low Cost, No People, More Wildlife, Better Sunrises, Sunsets. Maine.
In other online posts you read in the 1990’s there was an explosion of thirteen spot lady bugs in Maine cruising, hitching a free ride in on cargo ships.
Now I have to look closer, to see the difference in my lake place in Maine lady bug population.
(Squinting) They all look the same and did not know there were so many differences. Never gave it much thought other than Dad said lady bugs are our Maine farm friends.
More Than One Kind Of Lady Bug In Maine.
A real natural help and a good farm insect. Like finding more angle worms, Earth rooms in the soil. Lady bugs are a good sign and have an important job to do on the Maine potato farm.
Eating those pesky Colorado potato beetles to help the spud crop for Maine growers.
No Two Maine Lake Sunsets The Same. Cause You Are Not The Same. They Hit You Differently.
So off to count the number of spots, study the color of red to orange difference in my new uninvited lake house guests.
Local Maine pototo growers are struggling with a cold, wet rainy spring this spring.
Working hard getting the ground ready, the crop planted in between rain showers to plant them in the ground.
While sweeping, clearing cobwebs, washing windows, spring cleaning at the lake property…
I wonder why all my cute, slow moving red orange with black spot buddies, the lady bugs are showing up in Maine in greater number this spring?
How come so many and are lady bugs a problem? A lake home in Maine buyer this morning told me she is not so fond of the Mexican beetle that bites.
Not sure if I have any other those but how do you control the insect pest population best?
And knowing you are on a Maine lake and extra sensitive not to upset the natural balance or end up hurting another waterfront neighbor.
This East Grand Lake log home buyer told me how she remedied the Asian lady bug, Mexican lady bug and all her other orange back with black spot house guests.
Peaceful, Like A Bottom Smooth And Glassy. Maine Lakes Have Different Surfaces And Change With The Weather.
She said the Ortho product from Tractor Supply did not work but a Spectracide one did.
My life partner Meg is death on anything chemical no matter not carefully applied or how safe anyone tells you it is.
So will get back to you on the all natural ways to eliminate a pest.
How to herd lady bugs from inside to outside.
And what kind I have for house guests.
But evicting them to the great outdoors in Maine without hurting another corner of the lakefront neighborhood.
Poorly designed, overworked septic systems and soil erosion are two big problems to tackle on Maine lakes.
Move to Maine, the first big question is should you? And when is the best time for moving to Maine?
Living here as a life time Maine native, everyday means another chance to share what’s it like? In small rural areas, not as much ink used to showcase the local community landscape.
Maine Has Over 450 Small Communities, Only A Handful Of Cities. Looking For Small Town Living?
Less online about the best kept secret of small town Maine rural living.
What is pushing the urge to own a piece of Maine, to consider the move to Maine?
The fun you had on your last of many Maine vacations part of it.
The friendly local folks around you on a Maine vacation.
Relocating Moving To Maine Is On The Rise. Too Expensive And Dangerous To Stay In Cities Part Of Why People Move To Maine.
That is one of the biggest reasons visitors start thinking what if I lived here full time or part time?
But there is a lot more to consider if you want to make the best decision and to end up staying in Maine. Not moving again and again in search of something a few out in the audience have trouble finding.
Like multiple marriages and divorces where the partners think keep trying and hoping for the best fit to eventually happen.
Sometimes it’s not the Maine relocation, it’s you. What you pack up from wherever you lived before
My best advice to make the best use of your time and money? Check out what others say they like online and what was a surprise and not what was expected. All of us are different and at each stage of our life, what we
need changes.
Parked On The Waterfront, Vacations In Maine. Water Is One Big Attraction.
Add up what you do like where you live now outside Maine.
NO place is 100% perfect. Make the list of what has changed where you live now and that small town Maine offers you today. Obviously, lots of space, four seasons of outdoor recreation. Low crime, no traffic and low cost Maine real estate.
Plus friendly people. But there are trades offs and the gotta have, don’t want lists vary depending on who you talk to that thinks they want to relocate to Maine.
Videos About Living In Maine Community Events, Blogs On Communities Here Helps The Move To Maine.
Reach out to me anytime and read through the many blog posts on Maine on this blog.
Maine Is Lots Of Small Towns, Not Large Cities. The Perfect Back Drop For Raising A Family, For Vacations, To Start A Small Business And MORE!
These Maine simple living videos along with a few vacation stays before you pack up the Subaru and point it north will help you tremendously.
A phone call or two, lots of emails full of questions all help you know this move to Maine is the right one.
But give it time after you get here, have a nest egg. I have seen folks expect a duplicate of where they moved from and no two areas are exactly the same experience.
What are you trying to accomplish in the move to Maine and how will it improve your life?.
The answer to that question is the big reason a move to Maine happens.
Not just the seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter in Maine.
Don’t forget mud season. The joys of hitting potholes and coming up on a stretch of frost heaves on a Maine roadway during mud season.
Spring Must Be Close. The Pot Holes As Big As Your Car Prove It As Frost Leaves The Frozen Ground.
Mud season in Maine has its own special distinction.
Described as the 5th season in Maine to some, driving in the Pine Tree State during mud season can be treacherous.
And exaggeration to squeeze out the humor describing mud season happens online and in your small-town daily exchange of pleasantries.
Talking about the weather, running smelts and maple tree sap, frost heaves and potholes during mud season.
How long Maine’s mud season last depends on a few variables.
The size of yearly winter snow loads, the thaw and freeze temperature cycle, the spring snow melt off volume.
Jack Frost Is Pretty Crafty. If You Leave The Maine Lake Hammock Out To Decorate.
When snow melts and the access water seeps under a Maine road then freezes, you have frost heaves.
Maine roadways expand upward from frozen ice expansion. The natural speed bumps can literally launch a car if an unsuspecting motorist does not adjust their speed.
During mud season, pooling water from melting snowbanks along Maine highways when “hit” by passing traffic literally pounds the asphalt pavement to pieces.
That constant pounding action from each passing motorist causes roadways dirt or pavement to disintegrate and open up divots.
Those cavities fill with the same melting snow run off water. Then cycle from freeze, expand, freeze some more. To increase the size of the mud season pothole.
Or more pleasantly referred to as a “pavement deficiency” that come in all sizes and mysterious depths.
Some “pavement deficiencies” can cause serious damage to your vehicle.
Roadway Pavement Hazards In Maine, Pot Holes. Here’s One Example To Avoid Hitting With Your Car Tire.
Mainers share stories about potholes they know about that can swallow up a car whole.
A true native Mainer knows take it easy. They remember where the new crop of frost heaves and potholes spring up as mud season blooms.
Who benefits from mud season and the frost heaves, potholes in Maine?
Front end alignment specialists, the businesses selling and repairing damaged shocks, springs, tires and rims. Or the ones operating tow and ramp trucks that transport crippled cars taken out of action by frost heaves and potholes to the body repair shop.
Native Mainers have experience with pot holes, frost heaves and mud season driving.
Someone that’s never driven in Maine winter snow or been up to their axles in mud during spring thaw is an unsuspecting target.
Big heavy snowplow trucks keep the Maine roadways open and safe. But the constant sliding scraping of metal plows takes it toll. Breaking away the pavement to create sink holes that fill like a freezer ice tray with water.
Artistry Thanks To Mother Nature. What You See On A Walk In Maine. It’s Not Always Open Water Or Ice. There Is An In Between Season Besides The Normal Standard Set Of Four.
How do you drive defensively and navigate around the mud season road hazards? Don’t speed up to see how big a splash you can create at that next kiddie size pool of highway water.
It could be bottomless all the way to China. Or six week deep that when hit will jar out a few of your tooth fillings from the impact.
Broken shocks and springs, bent rims and flat tires are all casualties of a Maine winter trying to change the slide to spring.
Mud season is the transition tug of war that Maine motorists know all too well from years of driving practice.
Most Maine local highway transportation departments do a good job of pounding a stake in the road shoulder. Alerting you with a bight highly visible orange “frost heave” sign of what’s ahead.
Pure White, All Natural Not Man Made Snow. Maine Winter Is Coming, Locals Are Excited. Same Thing In Mud Season
If you are new to Maine, moving here full time and have little to no experience with mud season, take note. The transition from winter snow to spring flowers is not a snap your fingers quick season transition.
What’s a yes ma’am on a Maine roadway?
I heard the term to represent a smaller single or series of lifts of the pavement. Caused by mud season frost action, yes ma-ams are a kinder, gentler highway experience. Unless you are going way over the speed limit, all four tires are not catapulted skyward.
Yes Ma’am, like a small no thank you helping of frost heave. Think a small series of whopper junior moguls when downhill snow skiing. To shock absorb, slalom back and forth, side to side, up and down over them to get to the bottom base lodge for another fun run.
How long does mud season last in Maine?
Spring Means High Fast Water, Canoe Races In Maine.
It depends most on how much snow accumulation happened the past winter.
I have seen mud season drag on and a tug of war between winter and spring. Or other years a ten day period and bang.
It’s spring without a lot of fanfare or drying, thawing out happening.
Sometimes The “Tilt” Warning Comes On, “Service Rafter Soon” Light Glows.
Heavy snow over a Maine winter fuels the mud season. Because the snow accumulations have to be dealt with and all that melting to water volume needs to go somewhere.
That winter snow melting run off with spring like temperatures is what fuels our Maine spring canoe races.
More higher water volume, faster currents to cover the rocks is what speeds up the yearly celebration. When you dig out, dust off and paddle a Maine canoe and kayak in one of Maine’s many spring river race.
Welcome to Maine where we squeeze out the most outdoor recreation fun from every season. Even the one dubbed mud season in Maine.
You see it, the house in Maine with no one home, the grass hay field high, idling waiting for real estate foreclosure.
Seasons come, go and you wonder why does it take so long to foreclose on a house in Maine?
Welcome To Maine. You’re Here. You Made It! Affordable Housing In Maine Happens.
The news headlines squawk loudly our country is desperate for affordable housing.
Building materials costs are going up up up while despair grows for young first-time home buyers needing a place of their own to raise a Maine family.
We all want the state’s population to grow and where is everyone going to live?
So the light bulb comes on. If new construction is not meeting the housing demand because too expensive. If your average local Maine home buyer cannot afford the monthly mortgage payments.
What about foreclosure homes in Maine to ease the kink in the hose of affordable housing?
Tapping into the steady crop of empty Maine foreclosure homes to recycle them into affordable housing stock?
Small Maine Towns Have Smaller Priced Affordable Housing. Less For More.
The sooner the better too.
Because lack of winter heat, no power for the early spring water run off sump pump. Then years of hot summer sun blistering the peeling paint, fall leaves piling up and rotting.
Wild animals moving in and doing destruction. The broken window where the bird came in and lays on the living room rug without a proper burial.
And please, don’t open that refrigerator left fully loaded two years ago when the power got cut off for lack of payment.
Along with the heaping cat boxes, the house is empty and stuck in time, waiting for the slowly moving wheels of foreclosure justice.
A couple years vacant with the front door wide open and no one home. Just the home owner left. Everything else ran sacked crying for a 30 year dumpster. No water works draining attempted, the furnace is kaput.
The longer empty, the harder the rehab to “bring it all home” as Johnny Cash would hum.
But still, if better sooner than later, the Maine foreclosure home could be rescued, it’s win win.
Enjoying Maine’s Four Seasons And Working Remotely Online. Welcome To Maine Live Here, Work Globally Option.
For the new proud Maine real estate tax paying homeowner, for the community where you need affordable housing.
Foreclosures on Maine homes take a long time.
By law, the homeowner has to be 120 days behind on monthly mortgage payments before foreclosure action can begin.
Courts everywhere are back logged and out of state lenders are out of the loop on what’s happening to the collateral for a house loan good or bad. Lots of distressed mortgage loan inventory across the country makes it just one more delinquent property to herd through the judicial process.
Why else do foreclosures take so long on a house in Maine?
Someone is living there. Not paying rent but clinging, handing on despite the last call pleas to leave. Refusing to move despite the deputy sheriff eviction notices.
What’s the hurry? Hold your horses. Knowing it can take up to nine months or longer to finally get a judge’s eviction judgement to stick.
Best Location To Build Your New Maine House Is? Depends On Which Part Of The Life Movie You Are In Today.
(Often the keys for cash route is the quickest way to “help” the home owner or renter to pick up the pace and move along).
What else slows down the house foreclosure process? Divorce, bankruptcy all combined with eviction mixed together with the foreclosure legal proceedings. The wheels of justice are expensive and slow moving as the foreclosure winds slowly through the court system.
Mortgage loan modification, mediation, events like COVID can all “pause” the foreclosure process unless a short sale, deed in lieu of foreclosure remedy happens.
And when a bank does get the foreclosed property back in their REO inventory of non-performing loan units, more delay.
Getting bids for the trash out, changing locks, boarding up broken windows, yard work to cut up fallen tree limbs and reclaiming the shaggy tall lawn.
Seasons change as the empty unloved, unheated neglected Maine home deteriorates and slides further downhill into decay.
House Building, Your Maine Home Design Can Help Or Hurt Total Costs. Adjust, Pivot And Be Ready To Rethink The Construction Variables.
Eventually a licensed Maine real estate agent or appraiser roams through the property making notes on a clipboard.
Bids for repairs or sold pretty much as is, where is. It’s like real estate triage for this particular Maine local market.
Not one size fits all on how to approach getting the foreclosure back into the real estate market housing inventory.
Many need more than DIY skills and rehab loans are more lengthy but rewarding to see a house on the brink of disaster pulled back from being
smashed down and loaded into a dump truck to be hauled away.
Those house lots look like missing teeth in a Maine community.
The what should the bank or government agency list the property for number is arrived at and getting the foreclosure on the market happens.
Maine Outdoor Winter Snow Does Not Hamper The Farm Yard Animals. They Adapt, Expect The Season Change And Make It Work For Them.
When the bank that made the loan is in Maine, the pulling it back out of the fire can be sped up because everything is local.
The circles are smaller, a few phone calls or emails can make such a difference.
Local Maine bank lenders works best all the way around for a slew of reasons.
The house in Maine where the owner skips town and it’s left empty.
No tenant to use tear gas to remove (I mean serve them with evictions paperwork and start navigating through the legal court process).
What Happens When Grubs Move Into The Neighborhood. Your Lawn Gets Damaged, Pecked, Rolled Back.
Doesn’t the bank lender care or even know payments are not being made?
Big out of state banks have so many foreclosures, are spread all over creation with many departments. Reachable at five and six digit extensions. But good luck tracking down who you need to talk to at the bank or whoever bought up the block of non-performing foreclosure mortgage loans.
It’s like a rudderless ship. No captain, lost at sea and years can fly by that way. So better loan making to reduce the risk of foreclosure. Using local mortgage lenders that are a much bigger help than far away lenders with no connection to the community, county, state.
The foreclosure process eats up a lot of time because it’s a lawsuit with courtrooms, lawyers, judges are involved.
But if less foreclosures happened with tighter local lending underwriting guidelines reforms? Providing more creative loss mitigations options, streamlining the legal process.
And if local banks in the area jumped in to help speed up the foreclosure through short sales.
To incentivize quick bank home sales to quickly return affordable housing stock to the market.
Maine Small Town Living, Nothing Compares.
Then foreclosure houses would not stay off line so long and be in better shape to re-cycle. To ease some of the demand for affordable housing.
These days, smart Maine municipalities are speeding up foreclosure on tax acquired properties.
The Maine towns need the cash to fill potholes, pave and snowplow roads, fund education, pay for salaries and infrastructure building repairs.
The lien placed on a Maine home delinquent in real estate tax payments is a ticking bomb. Set to go off and detonate starting eighteen months with no taxes paid and a lien goes on the house title.
Baxter State Park, Hiking Mt Katahdin In Piscataquis County Maine.
The lot, structures become the towns at the end of at least three years of no paid property taxes.
Instead of waiting another year or two or three after that hoping the owner can redeem, those foreclosed properties are now being marketed online and sold to new performing taxpayers.
To get them off the books and tax generating again.
With empty unheated, unoccupied houses, the sooner the better works best.
Like a patient on the operating table, the longer he or she lies there the odds of survival lessen not improve.
The solution to speed up the Maine house mortgage loan or delinquent real estate tax foreclosure process?
Attack the problem from a local level. Maine banks making the original loan have mortgage centers in Vacationland.
Deed in lieu of foreclosure, debt to Maine Care for nursing home debt and delinquent real estate taxes can be debt with locally way way faster than many states and time zones away.
Those Maine foreclosure houses can be the answer to easing affordable housing inventory for folks begging to stop renting, start building ownership equity in their own place.
If the Maine house foreclosure takes 370 days to settle, another 180 days to sell, that is eating up a lot of time. That the Maine house suffers from poor weather and neglect, maybe even vandalism when no one is home. Local remedies to speed up the Maine house foreclosure process are in place.
Jim And Howard Debate Best Organic Farming Practices And Network. I Learned A Lot About Why My Farm Apple Orchard Is Meh And How To Revive Organically.
The Farmer to Farmer conference kicked off with a farm tour of North Spore Mushroom facility.
Sorry, no photos allowed at the 25,000 square foot facility that provides spawn to dozens of farms around the county. Saw the labs, steamers, all the stages of creating mushroom substrate and learned much about the health benefits.
After learning about mushrooms we walked over to a meet and greet hospitality social at Allagash Brewing.
Networking is critical to make organic farming sustainable and viable.
Social, Hospitality To Kick Off MOFGA Farmer To Farmer Session At Allagash Brewing.
Meg my life partner invited me to tag along to Maine’s largest city and beef up my organic farming knowledge at this year’s MOFGA Farmer To Farmer Conference.
Her organic farming experience all started in 1996 from a small humble produce veggie stand. Nature’s Circle Farm, based in New Limerick Maine grew to an over 400 acre full time Maine organic farm spread.
Meg, her Dad and crew raise, store, ship fresh market organic produce. Nature’s Circle Farms also selling over 20 varieties of Maine organic seed potato stock from their Aroostook County fields.
Organic Meals, Locally Sourced Maine Food. Nothing Beats Farm To Table Dining, Networking With Big, Small And In Between Passionate Maine Organic Farmers!
The MOFGA conference happened during the super bowl and watching the Patriots lose on the big screen did not damper the enthusiasm of organic produces.
When you own and are totally invested in a small organic family farm in Maine, time spent fretting about who won or lost a sporting event is not the end of the World.
Learning From Other Organic Producers About What Works, What Does Not. Critical To Sustainability On A Small Maine Organic Farm Operation.
Your family, chores around the Maine organic farm to keep it vibrant and sustainable suddenly more important.
The conference jam packed with worthwhile education sessions on everything from where to get grant moneys, new markets for your produce, how to deal best with the pesky Colorado potato beetle and more.
Black Garlic, It’s Popular. Ever Tried It? Howard Explains How It Is Produced And Distributed By The High Meadows Farm Truck.
A half acre organic farm and expansion to an acre may sound small potatoes.
But rich well nurtured farm soil can produce thousands of pounds of organic food with careful year round prep work. It’s not just creating a big crop and develop markets to sell it. Soil health, protecting the river or waterfront you border is key to eliminate erosion. Appreciation and protection of nature is always a concern of every Maine organic farmer or gardener. Farmer to farmer meetings help keep the dream a reality around Maine.
NRCS, The Natural Resource Soil And Water Conservation Service, Farm Services, MOFGA, Others All Work To Support The Maine Organic Producer.
No Farmer, No Food.
I have read about food insecurity and that up to a third of the food produced does not get consumed.
In Maine, when you think about all the school cafeterias, the colleges, prisons, the big consumers of shipped in produce, you have to wonder. Why can’t we funnel Maine organic locally sourced wholesome food to these food stream consumers?
The need for a processor to peel the squash, to cube it and fresh freeze to be ready to quick and easy prepare it is part of what’s missing.
Community freezers, coordination with legislators, and a grass roots passion to help stop wasting food and help the small Maine farmer at the same time is key.
Shout it out. make some noise.
Let’s clean up the plate and not scrape it into the garbage stream.
Support locally produce Maine agricultural products.
Local Farmers Markets, Community CSA’s Producing Locally Grown Food.
Where you shop, do you get the impression local matters and the suggestion area farmers are able to peddle their crops at the Piggly Wiggly?
Do they really or are some of the grocery store posters and propaganda on their websites from long ago and faded?
Not a grow it and we will give you shelf space to get it placed from the farm to the family table practiced for local shoppers where you stock up on groceries?
Is there a strong current grocer to local Maine farmer connection underway?
Maine Is Farming, Lots Of Woods, Rich But Simple All Natural Living.
There should be and speak up for fresher, cheaper, locally sourced Maine farm food that is not trucked in from many time zones away.
Pulled locally and not from out west or out of the country.
Let where you push the wire cart with the squeaky wheel know you noticed and ask them why local growers are replaced with far away from who knows where producers.
Support local Maine farmers, organic and conventional or everyone misses out from the farm to table nutritious habit at family meal time.
Here’s one farm property that was just listed in Northern Maine with 36.5 manageable acres.
Horse around, have critters and crops. Could you do it? Serving up what you grow and bartering with other local producers for what you don’t. It’s a lot of work and you have to be healthy. Starting out it helps to have savings, a nest egg.
Or someone holds down a real job to tame and flatten the peaks and valleys when operating a small Maine family farm.
Maine real estate is my real job but growing up on a farm and owning one is a passion too. Thank you for sticking around, reading until the very end. I appreciate you out in the blogging audience and here for suggestions on blog posts you want to see all about Maine.
Consider you have power half the time on a Maine island parked twelve to fifteen miles off the coast of Rockland in Knox County.
Vinalhaven And North Haven Are The Fox Islands In Penobscot Bay, Know County Maine.
Literally every six hours, one side of your island is energized. Then the next half dozen hours, where you live or work you are on own in the dark. Left to your own devices.
The old diesel generator taking turns feeding power to each half of the Maine island is bone tired. But the other two generators in the fleet sharing the electricity production task load died.
Help is on the way but fails to show up so deal with it.
Mainers are resourceful. Grateful for what we do have and working around the daily obstacles thrown in our pathway.
This week, I had a Maine real estate closing with a widow who’s husband grew up on Vinalhaven Maine island.
No Bridge Connecting Your ME Island To The Mainland? It’s All About Boat Transportation Using Watery Highways. The Ferry Runs If The Weather Cooperates.
John had a lobster boat. Grew up in the fishing village off the coast in Knox County Maine. Breaking down way way out to sea off the coast of Maine happens in choppy sea swells. You get a call, I need help.
Another lobster boat in the dark heads out to rescue tow you back into the Maine island harbor.
Do you think about the waves, the cold frigid temperatures, the danger that some hardworking Mainers face every day?
Miles of shore in the dark in a bobby lobster boat that’s engine quit. Hoping the your radio does not quit too.
Her story hit home. And having babies, raising kids on an island where maybe you can use the ferry.
Or maybe the sea and weather conditions are not just right. And you are stuck on the island for a time. Until the weather forecast conditions improve on your Maine island.
Surrounded By Water, Vinalhaven Is The Largest Of The Fox Islands.
Vinalhaven has roughly 1200, North Haven about 350 of the same kind of friendly year-round individuals on their respective Fox islands.
If you are a regular follower of the Me In Maine blog, you know my fascination with lighthouses.
I am not alone and know others get excited out in the audience with the buzz words Maine lighthouses.
Perkins Island Lighthouse – Georgetown Maine. Pretty Red Lens To Warn Sailors About Rock Ledges. Ship Wrecks Are No Fun And Lighthouses Avoid Them.
Surrounded By Water, Dependent On A Ferry, Boats Maybe Airplane Or Helicopter For Island Access. No Land Bridge To Zip To The Island. 75 Minute Boat Trip.Maine Lobster, Nothing Else Compares With Fresh Off The Dock Lobster Meat. Do You Agree?
Is the “old faithful” diesel generator still laboring, wheezing, doing it’s best to ration the Vinalhaven island’s electricity? No because three wind generators capable of 4.5 megawatts are now twirling overhead harnessing the breeze.
Spinning juice to supply more or less what Vinalhaven and North Haven needs.
The wind power generation project going online live in 2009. All the buzz of power managed by the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative.
Plus there is a submarine cable for power tether on the ocean floor like a giant extension cord to the main land just in case for electrical stability.
I will get to Vinalhaven Maine to collect a four pack of lighthouses to post in a future blog article.
Complete with the rich history about First Nation Red People, granite for the Washington Monument and base of the Brooklyn Bridge. With more to come on boat building, farming, lumbering, horse nets.
Vinalhaven has the distinction of being the first Maine island of lobstermen to unionize. Being 23 miles square.
A tight island community shaped by the rhythm of the tides, the pace of living depends on which season you land here.
Vinalhaven is Maine’s largest island off the mainland with no bridge connection. Could you live full time on a Maine island?
Maine has 4613 coastal islands in her collection to explore.
Vinalhaven Maine has access to much of the lobstering, fishing grounds in Penobscot Bay and further offshore waters.
