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Tag: back to the land

  • Living Off Grid, Back To Nature, Off The Land In Maine.

    Have that pioneer spirit or ever think you were born late?

    Less People, More Outdoors, Elbow Room In Maine.
    Own A Piece, Live Off The Maine Land, Woods.

    Would you like to homestead in Maine and be self sufficient?

    Maine is a great state to take it to the level you are seeking to reduce the size of your carbon foot print. Did a sister site off grid Maine blog post this morning with a couple of video versions of how to do it. What these folks ran in to for set backs and how they would do it differently which help you avoid the same mistakes with their honesty.

    Back in 1980 when I pinned on the “REALTOR” designation and started listing, marketing, selling Maine real estate, I would see what were affectionately called “granolas” and “back to the landers” that creaked in to the office driveway with rickety cars filled with the nicest, a little naive people.

    Some of the “find me a piece of cheap of land way way off the road” Maine wannabees were sons and daughters of pretty wealthy city lawyers, doctors, successful business folks. Not as ambitious as the above described folks courting the Amish way of good honest living.

    And ones you knew that in about a year, the back to the land in Maine craze would disappear from their eyes. Usually when the money mom and dad shelled out to get them up here ran out.

    If you are looking for a low cost piece of Maine land. A property for vacations and part time off the beaten path, maybe without power to plug in to living. Have a good selection of affordable Maine land listings. Some properties on the Maine waterfront, all with peace and quiet and several with attractive, generous owner financing help to complete your dream.


    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers

    207.532.6573

    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Your 200 Mile Per Hour Life, Take The Next Exit, It’s Maine.

    Making Our Own Fun In Maine Is a Local Volunteer Operation..Like ME Soap Box Derby Car Racing.
    Making Our Own Fun In Maine Is a Local Volunteer Operation..Like ME Soap Box Derby Car Racing.

    Living in Maine, when you move here full time or have a second home for part time enjoyment of “Vacationland”, your whole outlook changes to a simpler platform.

    For starters, moving to Maine is not to make giant salaries, to wine and dine and to impress anyone. Maine is for folks that don’t want to bother anyone, or to be bothered by a sea of people. Northern Maine, Aroostook County is 11 people per square mile. That is elbow room. Means we don’t lock doors, don’t have to take the keys out of the vehicle, the car or truck in the door yard.

    When you are in Maine, your fun is not tied to how much you spend on it. It does not propotionately translate in to how memorable the event, the entertainment is. Pick any of the four seasons in Maine. And the fun is being outdoors, seeing wildlife up close and personal, being on a Maine lake, river, something water related. The experience is a fire, cooking on it, with the back drop unspoiled Maine. Or your free time is spent hiking a hill, trail, mountain and just being humbled by the vastness of Maine.

    Hate to say it but man here has not messed the place up. Maine is less people and the ones we have respect the place, give the real estate, property to their kids in as good or better shape then they got it.

    Good stewardship and not a scorch earth policy of eat, drink and be merry. Easy, down to earth, lower key.

    This pace could drive someone from an urban area nuts. Not stuck in traffic, not overwhelmed with noise. The smells of a city replaced with pine trees, the roar of horns, engines racing, people hollering sounds with lake loons singing. Sometimes all you hear is quiet. Maybe a cricket, the breeze in the leaves..a slight rustle but nothing highway related, man created.

    Maine, it’s an adjustment but you start living again in a way you had forgotten existed. Simple. Getting back to basics of what is important. What you need in your day to day, what has been missing you had gotten away from. Healthy, not heavily mortgaged or loaned on at all. Free and clear. Owned outright. No worries. Maine, get the smile you had back on your face and relax. Get back to the land, become more self sufficient, happier within yourself here in Maine.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers

    207.532.6573

    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Old Maine Farm Houses Had Many Unique Features In Them.

         Root cellars to store winter vegetables, summer kitchens to can and preserve food stuffs in, woodsheds to heat the home and discipline the kids, open front porches for summer evening talks and iced tea.    Older homes, especially farmsteads also had large primary kitchens off the pantries to handle the ten children plus families that had to eat quickly to get back to their chores. Where they were on the family farm varied. Maybe they found themselves planted in the back  forty, or the apple orchard, orthe woodlot or in the barn throwing down hay, watering and graining the livestock.

         Could you trade in your urban lifestyle for country living in Maine? Would you had over the keys to the Volvo, Lexus, Land Rover for ones to fire up the John Deere or Farmall?  Start

    Cultivate Crops, Raising Critters On A Maine Farm
    Cultivate Crops, Raising Critters On A Maine Farm

    by recalling summer visits to your grandparents who lived on a farm, considering it is not all glamous and outdoor living on a sunny day. You are self employed and production is the key without a guaranteed hourly wage or salary. Cutting your ties to corporate America. Sign up for Mother Earth News, and other publications to help you consider a hobby farm full or part time and make sure your mate is on the same page.

    Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers – Maine Farms And Land Equal A Self Sufficient, Simpler  Lifestyle