It’s time for our annual summer Restaurant Raffle! For the sixth year in a row, you can enter to win a gift certificate to a local restaurant or market and support your land trust at the same time. Raffle tickets are $10 for 1 or $25 for sets of 3. Due to unforeseen issues, we… Read more
By Christina Schechtman You wouldn’t guess by looking at it, but Harpswell’s Long Marsh is in the midst of a long recovery. On its surface, it reflects a peaceful coastal landscape. Host to gentle grasses, wading wildlife and water rising and falling twice each day through its narrow channels. The steady rhythm of the saltwater… Read more
By Martha Brant On a cool and damp Fall morning several years ago, Susan and Scott Salka were taking one of their favorite Harpswell walks along the Cliff Trail. It was there they met a young military veteran who had lost his legs and was using specialized braces to navigate his way up to the… Read more
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