Harpswell Heritage Land Trust is thrilled to be partnering with Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) to implement a multi-year restoration project on Harpswell’s Long Marsh, a 70-acre salt marsh at the head of Doughty Cove. This collaboration is also supported by Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, Baxter State Park (the owner of Austin Cary Forest), and… Read more
We are glad to be able to provide access to our trails and preserves for people and their four-footed friends. If you are a dog owner, we ask that you please respect others’ enjoyment of our beautiful trails and shoreline and understand that some people don’t like dogs or are afraid of dogs. Some trails… Read more
Wolf Plant It is common to hear people complain that long stretches of Maine highways are stark, boring, or desolate; feel free to insert your favorite adjective. Maybe it depends on where you grew up, say in some over-developed city, with buildings, lights, signs and people screaming for attention at every turn. For me there… Read more
When staying at the cabin during the summer I love to spend time in the 40-acre mountain-top field surrounded by extensive mixed forest. I may be working, walking or just sitting. Nearly 2,000 feet in elevation on the northern edge of the Appalachians in central New York State, it is a cold, windy place in… Read more
Dave Reed of Reed’s Seeds was advising me on the products I would need to complete a new pollinator plot in the field. A Conservation Stewardship Program grant from the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) would provide up to $300 for a pollinator seed mix. The good folks at NRCS provided a list of… Read more
The King A friend once suggested that I write more stories about insects. I reminded him that insects are not a topic of polite conversation in Maine unless we are griping about ravenous mosquitoes, invasive brown tail moths or swarming black flies (often suggested with tongue in cheek as the next state bird). Don’t get… Read more
After graduating college with a degree in agriculture, Russell Turner began his career in the Peace Corps and later worked for an international aid organization, CARE. Followinga stint owning a cacao farm in central America, he returned to the US unsure of where he wanted to settle next. His brother lived in Portland at the… Read more
Imagine you’re 7 years old. You’ve just come home through a typically chill, rainy April night. Just another Maine mud-season drive… and then you see on your doorstep, a large, black splay-toed creature with bulging eyes and bright yellow spots all over its body. What kid wouldn’t be fascinated? Though he didn’t realize then, for… Read more
My recollections of early youth get a bit fuzzier over time but I remember my first outing with a fly rod. I was probably 12 years old, using an old Shakespeare rod and a top water “popper,” a floating frog imitation that made a lot of noise when retrieved quickly. Friends gave permission to fish… Read more
We appreciate everyone who participated in the March edition of our This Week in Harpswell project – over 60 photos submitted from 19 talented Harpswell photographers! For more about our photo project and to find out when the next one will be happening click here. Congratulations to our four winning photos for March: “Lookout Point,”… Read more