Climbing on Interstate 95 traveling to Augusta for Maine Agriculture Farm Trade show.
Yesterday hitched a ride with my partner Meg who is a New Limerick Maine organic farmer up here in Aroostook County. We climbed in the van and headed down I-95 to attend the Augusta Maine 85th agriculture farm trade show.
We met, listened to the Maine agriculture farm commissioner Amanda Beal.
Got to network with lots of other agriculture farm producers, talk to vendors at this 85th Maine agriculture farm trade show.
Attended a couple break out sessions to tackle farm operation problems everyone has to hunt down solutions for in Maine farming.
I love farming, grew up on one and still own the family agriculture spread where the four boys, my brothers and I were raised.
By renting out the Maine farm in the video for agriculture organic farming to Nature’s Circle farm, to Meg I can keep my hand in digging in the dirt.
The thing that hits you at the Maine farm trade show is how diverse, how small and precious the agriculture operations really are in Maine.
Nice Antennae. Maine Honey Bee Producing Out Of This World Nectar Food.
You have to stay small to survive and to keep your expenses low to the ground on a Maine farm.
Nothing Compares For Taste, For Health Benefits! Wild Maine Blueberries.
The love of raising, growing something and the farming lifestyle is the Maine attraction.
Farm to table is so important and finding a market to make agriculture in Maine sustainable is the constant battle.
Making A Living Peddling A Product Made Form A Small Maine Farm.
Teenie weenie itsy bitsy Maine micro farms make it happen with keep it simple homesteading.
If you keep it small farming in Maine, the rewards are rich and home grown. Nothing is taken for granted and your family raised on the family farm really benefit.
Big And Small. The Equipment To Farm Is Old And New. Depends On How Deep You Want To Go Out On The Financial Limb.
It was refreshing to see Maine Future Farming high school members in attendance at the agriculture show in Augusta.
Blue Corduroy Jackets, FFA Future Farmers Of America Members At The Maine Agriculture Trade Show! These Ladies From Mars Hill, Aroostook County.
I list and sell them all the time and Maine is a vast rural state. Where you can know your local Maine farmer.
Where In Maine Do Your Farm And What Kind Of Agriculture Are You Involved With Today?
When you think of draft horses, not just big horsepower Maine farm tractors. The farming types are diverse and have to be to carve out a living you really have to be born into to enjoy. Not that long ago, everyone was a farmer, agriculture was kind.
I did see a booth at the Maine farm show for the state grange.
Everything under the Sun arranged around the Augusta Civic Center for this three day Maine AG farm show.
Maine Agriculture Trade Show In Augusta Civic Center.
Break out sessions to work on a slew of topics. Big industrial drones for spraying and more.
Farming In Maine. Do You Team A Pair Of Draft Horses, Mules, Ponies?Agriculture Uses For Drones Of All Kinds And Prices.
Glad I tagged along and zipped down to Augusta for the Maine agriculture farm show. Hope you enjoyed the videos, the farm images collected yesterday from my travels.
Thank you for watching, sharing the Me In Maine blog posts. I appreciate you being out in the audience on anything the state Maine.
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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 New England state.
Why Maine? The attraction is less people, more unspoiled natural surroundings and common sense still works in Maine.
Raising a family in Maine is attractive to many. Or starting a small business here and building it up slow but sure.
To some day leave to your kids or sell off and do some traveling in and out of state.
Retirement in Maine or just having a second home away from the southern heat.
All prime motivation factors for why Maine gets all the hoopla attention there says.
I hope the variety of blog posts help keep you coming back for more. Please reach out and let us know stories, videos, whatever you want us to cover stories on. It’s everything Maine at the Me In Maine blog.
Here’s a few suggestions on blog posts to tap and enjoy.
Roads, Across Water Trails That Freeze Over. Over 23,000 Miles Of Snowmobile Trails In Maine.
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 In Maine blog tries very hard not to come off as a sing song tired warp record typical tourist discovery channel.
The conversation should be me seeing and thinking of just how I can help you out there in the blogging audience. Talking about what I know living in Maine.
What do you need, what can I provide starts with pondering who are you?
A big segment of you reading this blog post now have already been to Maine.
She is no stranger and you test positive. Maine has you by the heartstrings hook line and sinker. You cannot wait to visit her again.
Classic Small Maine Downtown Like Houlton Maine. The County Seat, The Craftsmanship Preserved.
I can’t wait to sample something new and different and I live here in Maine.
Always! But choosing to Maine my full time home, living here already provides a unique advantage. To share the local experience with photos, sometimes videos and always helpful links to learn more.
Peaceful, Like A Bottom Smooth And Glassy. Maine Lakes Have Different Surfaces And Change With The Weather.
Simple blog posts on a slew of topics that all distill down into pure, all-natural Maine.
Variety, the hunt for new topics, sometimes revisits to Maine venues but covering them in a different season. My bug to provide information started working as a Maine broadcast journalist.
The decision that I wanted to raise my family in Maine made me realize I did not want to leave Maine to work my way up the broadcast ladder. I did not want to cheat the four children out of the rich experience I had growing up in rural small town Maine.
So now you know and back to giving you something worthwhile to share in this Me In Maine blog post installment today.
I am still at a Maine lake home. Not sure when or if Meg and I will move back in town for the winter. Being on a Maine lake after the summer tourists headed south is so peaceful. And now enjoying the most beautiful fall foliage season I can ever remember has made us drag our feet.
In Groups, Birds Of A Feather Fly (And Float) Together Like Maine Lake Loons.
I know plenty of other people who bought a Maine lake camp and suddenly, when COVID happened, they found themselves living there too like me now.
Figuring if they had Internet, why not park it for a spell on the Maine waterfront and work online remotely. Converting their camp into a simple home. And then realizing if I can work remotely up in Maine, if I don’t have to return to the urban location expensive grind, I’m sticking around in the Pine Tree State.
Thank you COVID 19 for that life detour that turned out all for the better.
Each day living on a Maine lake, you see different wildlife walk, fly over, float by like these white helmet hooded mergansers.
Shy, Getting Ready To Fly South. Feeding On Maine Lake Fish To Bulk Up For The Flap Flap Flap Work Out.
Never saw them before and learned it is because they are shy.
Less people on the Maine lake this time of year reduces the anxiety as the bird in the duck family fish the water and prepare to migrate elsewhere for the winter.
The bald eagle in the big stately pine tree here at the lake is exciting to watch swoop down and clutch a large fish.
Then with serious effort flap his wings low to the water and struggle to get to higher ground and land with the mealtime prize.
The smaller group of year rounders living on a Maine lake are a special group. Banding together to clear private roads of tree limbs that hang over and threaten power lines in the fall. To prevent losing electricity in the winter months when ice and snow bring them down.
The Maine lake properties are accessed by private roads.
Sand and salt barrels are refreshed to be ready to spread on icy roads ahead.
Holiday parties with the local Maine lake community happen. Someone brought a guitar, everyone brought their signature covered dish tid bit.
Folks who own waterfront property used seasonally will reach out to local year rounders who make sure all is well at their vacant lake place.
Living Full Time On A Maine Lake, What’s Like? The Gray Lake Home Where I Am Blogging This Morning. The Red Camp For Kids, Company, Overflow.
You see ice fishing shacks appear on shore around a Maine lake this time of year.
Waiting for the tug across frozen lake ice when the local warden service declares it is safe.
Ice fishing, snowmobiling, cross country skiing and snow shoeing, pond hockey are ahead out front on a Maine lake.
Five Holes, Drill Them In A Jiffy With A Jiffy Or By Hand. To Ice Fish On A Maine Lake.
Plowed roads, groomed ITS snowmobile trails across the Maine lake and small shanty villages of ice shacks start popping up as the winter season unfolds.
Getting the snowplow back on the Ford pickup one the to do list this week.To maybe plow the Maine waterfront properties.
Plow three properties, maybe four this year if we hang around the Maine lake property.
Parked On The Point. Pair Of Drews Lake Homes.
Mainers are prepared and weather speeds up the getting ready process. The lake shore dock all pulled in and parked onshore.
Seadoos, kayaks, pontoon boats all put away with deck chairs and the hammock in the storage shed. Gas grill still ready to fire up and sizzle.
The sunrises and sunsets served up are different now than back in spring or summer on a Maine lake.
Maine is like a gift that you get to keep opening up. Just providing different colors, a not quite the same angle of the sun for lighting and not one constant same temperature. All your senses get a work out living up here in rural Maine.
What else happens this time of year, late fall heading into early winter on a Maine lake?
Every vehicle you meet has something orange on the occupants. Or you see the orange hat visible on the dashboard of everyone you meet on the road.
Hunting for deer, moose, black bear to stock the freezer to pull from over the winter. The winter wood supply is ready, next year’s cut in tree length and being processed to fit the particular stove used to heat your Maine home.
Can I Help You? Here To See A Maine Moose? You Are Seeing Double! Did You Shoot With A Camera Or A Gun? Have A Moose Lottery Permit This Season?
Stars, when I got up this morning you cannot miss them.
Last night when Meg and I got home to the lake, the black velvet sky was loaded with stars. Maine is a dark place said in a good not sinister way.
Maine has some of the darkest, least light or smog polluted skies known to man. I think looking up and seeing the star constellations you learned about in eight grade science just intensifies the awareness.
There’s less noise, it’s more real and up close personal and sometimes just hard to explain. Everyone gleans something different depending on what else is going on in their life to color the Maine experience.
Roads, Across Water Trails That Freeze Over. Over 23,000 Miles Of Snowmobile Trails In Maine. To Allow Stops At Ice Shack Shanties.
There’s Orion’s Belt, the Big and Little Dipper. The Seven Sisters.
Oh how lucky we are to live in Maine where nature and astronomy take turns surrounding us day and night. I think awareness of life, people, the environment all increases as the population around you decreases.
Will share more on life at the Maine lake in future blog posts. Hoping this installment helped share the what’s it like on the Maine waterfront.
Many folks are “uptah camp in Maine” for hunting season now. Lots of them end up spending Thanksgiving enjoying their turkey spread in their rural Maine woods camp.
My first minibike was a 3.5 horsepower Briggs and Stratton model. Just a simple, low-cost minibike that was dark green with knobby tires.
It has a thick long cushion seat to make up for a serious lack of suspension. No gears, the minibike equipped with a centrifugal clutch. Just twist the throttle and away you go.
Straight gas, nothing to mix and fun to ride minibike to explore the area when farm chores, schoolwork were completed.
Simple, Affordable Minibike
I would ride the minibike around my Maine family farm field roads, woods trails and in the beginning stayed pretty close to home.
I was nine years old. My Dad has picked up the minibike I earned with potato picking money at the Sear store in Presque Isle Maine.
Riding the minibike around the farm was fun. But eventually longer excursions to my Aunt Ruth’s farm on the Callaghan Road was a frequent destination. Aunt Ruth lived with Freeman Taylor and ran a horse-riding summer camp.
Camp Little Ponderosa was just a couple miles away by car.
On the minibike, it was about three miles going up and over the Interstate 95 overpass on the Mooers Road.
Mooers Family Farm Houlton Maine
Then crossing the Ludlow Road near my Uncle Fred and Molly’s farm.
Then after looking both ways, zig-zagging to taking a trail through farm fields and tree plantation up through a horse back or esker of gravel deposits on Holland Taylor’s farm. Always, always wearing a helmet.
It was the same route used on the family snowmobile in the winter months, a blue 12.8 horsepower Sno Jet.
The trail just covered with white fluffy snow and I was dressed more warmly with layers.
On minibike or snowmobile, you ended up in the same place. The Lane gravel pit which was just behind, to the east of my Aunt Ruth’s summer horse riding camp.
I put a straight pipe on the minibike engine that was anything but high performance.
Only so much you could do to squeeze a little more speed out of the engine usually used on lawnmowers not a motor bike.
High test gas, experimenting with a different chain sprocket configuration all slightly modified the first minibike.
My neighbors Chris and Bryon Williams had minibikes too. Blue 4 horsepower Bonanza minibike models, a pair of them.
We would ride down the Hagan Road to farm roads that led to Cary Mills .
Over toward the town dump and Donald Guy’s gravel pit. Mostly dirt roads and staying off paved ones where traffic was a danger. And knowing we were not licensed motorcyclists yet and way too young to take the road test.
The minibike was freedom.
It was fun to have the privilege to ride with my friends and go places without mom and dad carting me around here and there. The minibike provided a variation of the same feeling of independence that I got riding the snowmobile with my countryside neighborhood friends.
It was not all gas-powered transportation either growing up in rural Maine. Summer meant going up into Market Square peddling a three-speed banana bike. The same feeling of independence provided weekly riding my bike with the long leopard seat into 5 Franklin Avenue to mow lawns.
The money-making gig grass clipping summer job passed down by my brother Brian.
It paid a whopping five dollars and a included an icy cold can of White Rock black raspberry soda a week. Money carefully managed from farm jobs, birthdays, Christmas gifts, mowing lawns was funneled into the minibike fund.
Helmets, repairs and modifications nibbled at the hard-earned fund that led to bigger and better. Eventually trading in the Sears minibike for one purchased at Tingley Brother’s Garage on the North Road or US RT 1 in Houlton Maine.
The orange Chibi was a serious step up for a mini bike.
3 Speeds, 58cc 2 Cycle Engine Powered The Chibi Minibike
It was really a miniature dirt bike with three speeds, a manual clutch, and tuned exhaust on the 2-cycle mixed oil 58cc Rockwell Industries engine.
The Chibi made by Bridgestone came in two models. For $285 you could but a basic blue model. For $315 you could get a snazzy orange Mopar color paint job scheme and a headlamp, taillight. This helped extend the range of the trips and when I had to be home.
Our parents allowed a group of us kids to take our minibikes to camp out with sleeping bags overnight. Looking back, I really appreciated the freedom I had growing up on a Maine farm. My parents trusted me to make good decisions and had loosened up over the years raising me and my three older brothers.
Fast forward to my own children.
Put on a helmet, tighten it up the chin strap. They started out with four red and white Honda minibikes that were three speeds with a clutch, around 50cc power plants.
I could not find a local outlet to purchase them so went across the border to Dave’s Sport Center in Woodstock New Brunswick Canada. The duty was 28 dollars for the Honda’s from Japan.
Then the growing kids graduated to four dark blue Yamaha 125 cc four-cycle off-road motorbikes. Taller, more bike for bigger trail riders. You could add a light kid and make them legally road worthy.
I know how much I appreciated having the freedom to trail ride growing up and the ability to explore with friends and on my own.
What is it like around you? The minibike was my ticket to find out growing up on a Maine family farm.
Did you have a minibike growing up? What kind, what was the experience like? Were you trusted by your parents to leave the yard and did you have earned freedom that looking back you really appreciate now?
Peace and quiet, Maine small town living offers plenty of both.
At a state Maine REALTORS convention this past week in Portland, it was great to be in Maine’s largest city for lots of continuing education credits. To rub shoulders, to compare notes with other professionals from around the state is invaluable to my small Maine real estate operation up here in “The County”.
Congratulations to Martin Cates, Maine Association Of REALTORS “Realtor Of The Year” Awardee.
REALTOR Of The Year In ME Broker/Agent? Martin Cates Received The Maine Association Of REALTOR 2025 Award!
Well deserved for years of community volunteering, real estate listing sales mentoring service Martin!
Lots Of Maine REALTORS Attended The State Convention In Portland Maine!
Heading north up Interstate 95 after this year’s MAR convention wrapped up, I thought about all the many areas of Maine there are.
Hard not to as the mile markers rack up and township signs flash by the jeep passenger side windows.
One session speaker had done the math, counted over 480 communities in the great state of Maine.
The common denominator for many seemingly is lots of peace and quiet all for season.
A commodity not so plentiful in population centers outside of Maine. But don’t believe the low bidder ad agency that often wins the contract for providing out state generated tourist information.
I like see, hearing about the real deal Maine. Not the re-constituted spun kind that regurgitates old not accurate story lines.
Here’s the A-Z of what Maine offers in cartoon form.
Maine Is Low Cost High Beauty Real Estate! Welcome To Small Town Maine Simple Living!
Too many paint the picture that small Maine towns once were thriving but not anymore.
Change is inevitable in life and Mainers adapt, retool and press on in highly creative ways.
Squeezing more from what they spend is a life skill learned and earned early in life.
Picking in the potato fields, raking in blueberry barrens or harvesting seafood in fishing villages that dot the rock bound craggy Maine coastline.
One Basket At A Time! Picking Maine Potatoes Skills Learned By The Lucky Youth Growing Up In A Fall Harvest Potato Farm Field.
Please don’t get the wrong impression about what it is like in Maine.
It’s an easy trap to fall into when many are waving their fingers and flapping their tongues. About something making them hot and bothered on the national stage.We don’t make everything about who you did or did not vote for last election, the one before that.
When from our perch in a small Maine town, we think the peace and quiet out in the vast low population setting is the key. To stay balanced and aware of what is really important in life.
Volunteering and helping others is what Maine simple living is all about in Vacationland.
Preserving family traditions and making sure the next generation is taught more than just how to survive life. But to enjoy and cherish how lucky we really are to live in a place so beautiful and unspoiled and not crowded.
Details, Fine Workmanship, Small Maine Towns Are Special! The Community Is The People, Not Empty Buildings.
Maine small towns are not sleepy but many just don’t get the press.
Nothing ho hum or boring. Undiscovered small Maine communities often feel like a step back in time by design.
What’s important is preserved and the respect passed on. All the members of the small Maine community have important jobs besides what they do for work.
Volunteering and signing up to do the task year after years helps all of us get to know the other community members. There is so much local talent and nothing needs to be “hired out”.
Can I Help You? Here To See A Maine Moose? You Are Seeing Double!
Small Maine towns surrounded by serene peace and quiet are left alone by politicians too.
Not enough voters to bother with and too much travel or ROI for their support. Everything is local, grass roots and home grown. Garden fresh close to home always beats out trucked in store bought right?
So waking up on a Maine lake, slurping my hot coffee and peering out over the water, I feel blessed.
Maine Lake Loon Fishing, Feeding It’s Young. Living Here You See The Skill Taught To Baby Loons On A Maine Lake.
Have my do list for the day back from the Maine REALTOR convention hammered out, am wrapping up the blog post on peace and quiet simple living.
Feeling energized to rise above and seize the day.
Knowing I really am so so lucky to live in one of the many small communities that make up the vast majority of the state of Maine. Where we talk not just text.
And most locals don’t suffer from FOMO.
Our energy is saved for the big challenges of day-to-day life.
Not feeling sapped, always filled with the fear of missing out and anxious that somehow, we are missing out on a perfect opportunity. That desperation only leads to hurried or financially unsound decision making.
Laugh. Laugh Loud. Maine Small Town Comedy Is The Most Entertaining!
Small town Maine living teaches you what priorities to keep straight and never forget to deep down contentment and happiness.
What really matters?
That easy living happens with peace of mind. That practical is not square. That debt is a cancer. Knowing relationships matter and need to be tended like a garden. And enjoying what you do for work, valuing your time is the secret. Thank you for reading, sharing, following our Me In Maine blog posts.
More and more real estate buyers are thinking Maine, live here, work anywhere.
What’s It Like In Small Town Maine Rural Locations? Each One Shines Uniquely, Brightly.
The Maine real estate calls into our rural Aroostook County office tell the tale.
It’s families moving in, houses filling up, schools gaining student enrollments, and small businesses welcoming new customers.
Remote work is turning Maine around — not just in Portland or the coast, but right here in Aroostook County, all the sixteen counties.
It’s no longer the old story of “no jobs in Maine.” It’s a new story: “Live here, work anywhere.”
Welcome To Maine. You’re Here. You Made It!
Online living in Maine but working anywhere is a reality.
Reliable high speed Internet connectivity is the game changer.
No longer does a young family wanting to raise their kids in wholesome Maine pack the wagon.
Have to leave for more higher paying jobs in a population center.
Remote worker employment often means higher incomes than the local average, which helps support schools, municipal budgets and small Maine town community programs.
What’s the roof like on a property or is there a garage is just as critical as another question asked with greater frequency.
Remote work is reshaping opportunities. Maine no longer has to rely on job loss replacement for timber, paper mills, potato farming, fishing and small manufacturing industries.
Grab a bar of soap and keep it handy for the local resident that still growls or mutters “no jobs in Maine”.
Ask many young people who outward migrated to southern New England for higher paying jobs if there was more employment opportunities, would you stay in Maine?
Remote work is a game changer that shifts the focus away from lack of traditional, in-person small Maine town and rural county employment opportunities.
The rise of telecommuting and online work is showing geography matters less.
That you can hold a job with employers in Boston, New York or even California while calling Maine your home. Many big companies are seeing it is cheaper to sub contract the freelancing, consulting, online business functions to online remote telecommuters.
Maine Is Small Town Friendly Living. Who Would Trade That For High Crime, Over Populated Not So Friendly Areas To Live If They Had A Choice?
Before Internet connected the state of Maine, rural meant woods, water, wildlife, few people.
Off the beaten path, taking hours to travel back and forth and a harder option for rural remote Maine to compete for business.
The Internet removed the “too far away” aspect. Blew open the Maine real estate market restriction to an audience that is now global not just local.
It made it easier to deliver information on Maine tourism.
To serve up personal experience testimonials from case after case of telecommuters who packed their current job there.
And moved it along to a new Maine location with all their other personal belongings and loved ones to “Vacationland.
Remote work makes if more realistic for younger Mainers or newly relocated to the state folks to stay, to buy homes and contribute locally while working globally.
Maine markets itself as a “quality of life” state. Loaded with natural four seasons beauty, the 4th lowest crime stat, no traffic and an intimate small town community vibe.
With remote work, these unspoiled Maine advantages tug hard on the heart strings of workers who are fed up, sick and tired. Who no longer need to be near corporate urban bub population centers. Local communities, organization and the state got on the bandwagon early. Live here, work anywhere. Maine.
Rural Maine where I live is ahead of the Internet connectivity curve.
In the East Grand Lake region as a recent example, Fidium has strung glass fiber high speed Internet broadband all over the northern Washington and southern Aroostook County. You want 500 meg speed of thought Internet connectivity? Pioneer Broadband Internet is another local Maine company options leading the charge to offer Internet in places that did not have it.
Perks Of Living In Small Town Rural Maine Spelled Out A-Z.
Dial in the speed like remember the old Sunoco gas pumps? To boost performance with street legal race track high performance octane 360 grade in your muscle car back in the 1970’s.
If you work online remotely it is a given that all your higher income goes to support the local small Maine town economy? Probably not. But having the Fed Ex or UPS truck deliver whatever you used to get in the higher population city setting is part of the decision making moving to work remotely in Maine.
You no longer have to trade off all the perks thanks to the same Internet connection that offers go away you want to live employment options.
The influx of new remote online works has helped cause the shortage of affordable housing and the knee jerk for local contractors and communities to get behind new home construction. The what is being built to sell though has to match the market.
How Many Times Have You Climbed Mt Katahdin? Do You Hike, Bike, Climb The Rec Trails? Use The Maine Waterways Or Hunt, Fish?
Your typical Maine home buyer is looking for affordable not luxury unless parked amount the pricey coastal zip codes of Maine.
The Internet has helps home buyers consider their lifestyle choice and where best in Maine to live it out completely.
Like say your passion to ski. It meant the Sugarloaf or Sunday River area built golf courses. Uses the snow ski lift for fall leaf foliage color peeking. Other events added to the local Maine landscape to make what used to be seasonal resorts into to year round full service ones.
Horse lovers are invited to build a new house complete with a stable to bring Flicker or Bullet with you to ride the Maine mountain woods trails.
Want To Horse Around, Life A Small Homestead Farm Experience In Maine?
Remote work can reverse out migration trends and help young Mainers stay home while building careers.
Working remotely helps attract newcomers drawn by Maine’s quality of life. Clean air, community spirit, safety and outdoor year round recreation. The higher income strengthens small local community economies.
Freelance, consulting and digital businesses are giving people more job employment options than ever before.
Crossing Country Skiing, Snow Shoeing, Getting Outside In Maine To Fill Your Lungs With Fresh Clean Air. Is That Possible Where You Live Now?
For Maine, the benefits are telecommuting and working remotely retains young people who want to stay close to family but still build careers.
The challenge is building new housing stock to fill the needs of local and new incoming house buyers. Developers have to consider what the market needs, what is lacking and would quickly sell if it was built to meet the price point.
The building a house in Maine loaded with a slew of convenience features is great if you can afford it and for your own personal preferences.
A New Maine Lake Home Being Built From The Ground Up. Starts With A Foundation. How Many Angles And Jogs In It Drives The Price Up Or Down.
But simple, affordable ranch and cape style house structures are what is needed in rural Maine. Maine is 450 small communities, plantations and a handful of cities and the housing stock
Living Here, Working There. Your Local Life Can Include A Global Job With High Speed Internet.
has to match the need and price range the new home buyer can afford.
Can You Do This Where You Live Now? Everyday In Maine Is A Vacation.
It’s now new jobs not no jobs in Maine.
For years, people described Maine — especially rural Maine — as a place with “no jobs.”
The story was familiar: paper mills shut down, farms consolidated, manufacturing moved away, and young people left for Boston, Portland, or beyond in search of salary and career opportunity.
But today, that story is changing in Maine.
Live in Maine, work anywhere!
Remote work and telecommuting are quietly reshaping our state — and a Maine real estate broker, it is exciting to see the change up close, every single day.
Young Mainers that had to leave the state to “make a living” are returning home.
Their current out of state employer does not want to lose them and their rural Maine work ethic. The moving back to Maine family brings the job they already have.
Out of state buyers are moving in, sometimes sight unseen, because they can pack their current job and don’t need to replace it.
Retirees looking for a slower pace now have child or grandchildren who can follow them north because remote work is possible.
Today broadband availability in Maine matters as much as proximity to a mill or employer once did.
If Maine leans into the shift from live here, work anywhere. And if she continues to invest in broadband and promotes the clean unspopiled, simple lifestyle and supports new housing development.
Then Maine can turn “no jobs” into “new jobs”. Housing demand in Maine is the earliest signal of population and job trends. And the job trend is move, stay, live in Maine, work anywhere.
