Freem Hatfield

Yes, it is still for sale.  They would take a very low offer before considering lease to own....they were badly burned on a lease to own deal some years ago.  Really, go ahead and lowball it and see what happens!  PM or email me for contact info.

It is a tribble, obviously! 

4 acres, and about 40 minutes from Caribou if I remember correctly.....about to the middle of town, or to the hospital should be about that far.

St David.  I went to high school in Madawaska.  Their house is right on the trails.  I had a horse when I was a teen and could ride for hours without seeing another person, or could ride along the roads which have very little traffic.  It was beautiful.  If I could, I'd buy it myself and rent it....big rental business up there for snowmobilers!  Then I'd vacation there myself.

There is a big, newer garage made to hold two cars/vans with lots of room in front.  My parents had a decorating store in town and the garage was made to hold dad's work van, the car, tools, rolls of flooring, a work space, and a cedar closet for storing off-season clothes and camping gear.

There is an insulated chicken coop...water rarely freezes in there with no heat source!

The land is four acres, surrounded by farmland, some of which may possibly be for sale.  Farmer long retired, kids not into farming, and the farmer who rented the land recently went bankrupt.

Some laurels are more poisonous than others, and most are very poisonous during periods of rapid growth.  I lost a doe during spring land clearing efforts and learned the hard way.  She was fine in old growth but the lush spring re-growth after cutting was too much to resist.

Youngsters are especially vulnerable.  I have lots of plants in my pasture that my goats have access to that are on poisonous plant lists and I don't worry.  A few things, though, can be serious and they WILL eat them.  Please be cautious.  Not all goats are naturally wise.

Some of the best nutrients in pasture raised animals are in the fats....and chicken skin is rather fatty.  You are tossing a lot of great stuff when you toss the skin.  Yes, sometimes you need to skin, but do some plucking, too.  You are also limited as to cooking methods with skinless chicken.

Always eat meat/poultry with some of the fat and a bit of salt.  Otherwise, we cannot digest it properly or get all the nutrition from it.  And it just tastes better!

I made a gallon of elderberry wine last summer....my first season of winemaking.  It was a bit tart but I will try another recipe this year and plan on five gallons if I can get enough berries.

We just had our first elderberry pie last night and it was SOOOOO good!

My folks need to sell their place in Aroostook County.  I spent my teen years there and if you like the cold....snowmobiling, skiing, dogsledding.....or like me when I lived there, hiding out for a few months and catching up on all the indoor projects guilt-free!

When I was growing up, we raised most of our own food....pigs, chickens, goats for dairy and meat, a steer, and a big garden.  Gleaning is the custom in the area, too, and it is common to carry pails in one's trunk and stop on the side of the road when you see a harvester working in a field.  Lots of hunting and fishing year-round, too, with a large lake a few miles away and a catfish pond within walking distance.  Bear, moose, deer, rabbit, quail....don't forget the porcupines, too.

Two albums here:  Maine house:  http://s1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa472/dickmarquis/Maine%20House/

Maine House- Interior and Exterior: http://s1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa472/dickmarquis/Maine%20House/Maine%20house%20inside%20and%20out/

They'd take almost ANY offer to sell it soon, before the cold weather starts....that is by the end of September, folks!  Spits of snowflakes in October, and snow in November.  Yippee!!!

It is well-supported by research.  Think of it this way....a wheat berry can be ground into flour and made into bread.  Wheat grass cannot.  It completely changes as it grows.

The biggest proof for me is in my flock and my herd.  No drop in production or in the health of my animals.....for several years now.

I don't pretend to know the science of how this happens on the molecular level.  I just sprout 'em and feed 'em.  There are scholarly papers online.

I feed sprouted organic grains.  When you sprout a grain, the protein level shoots up when it is at the stage where the tiny sprout is just emerging.  I scatter sprouted grains in the morning (I like barley the best, but can't seem to get it anymore.  I switched to oats and recently, to wheat, as it was most readily available) and whole corn in the afternoon. 

I supplement this with any fat and meat scraps from the house, fat scraps from rendering lard and tallow (I make soap) and crushed bones from making bone broths and all the scraps from that....skin, meat, etc.  I make my own catfood so I freeze this stuff in baggies for the winter when the bugs are not available.  I save some for raising chicks....they get free choice cracked wheat in the brooder and a plate of mashed bone/skin/meat scrap daily, along with chopped greens and heads of sorghum to pick at.

In the long, snowy winter, they eat a lot of the hay that the goats drop and anything green that is poking through the snow.  I used to dry clippings from our untreated lawn and bag it for them for the winter, but they seem to prefer picking their own from the goat's stall so I don't bother anymore.  But if I only had chickens, I'd make lawn hay again.  I just spread the spring clippings on the driveway and turn them every couple hours until crispy-dry, then rake them up into feed sacks and store until winter.