2025-08-01 | Growing Shellfish Was 'Trial by Fire'
Island Journal
Stonington native Abby Barrows owns and operates the Deer Isle Oyster Company, a small-scale aquaculture farm where she raises oysters,…
Portfolio
2025-06-20 | Tree-Based Tech — The Future of Maine’s Forest Products Industry
Northern Woodlands
Certain clusters of technology have earned a place in our cultural imagination. Detroit is Motor City. There’s Silicon Valley just…
2025-05-29 | How to get started with the Obsidian app
Zapier.com
From the moment it reached public beta in 2020, Obsidian has been included in practically every best note-taking app round-up…
2025-03-20 | A Master Class in the Outdoors
Northern Woodlands
Dawna Blackstone might be forgiven for feeling a little – well, intimidated – after driving nearly two hours to Orono…
2025-01-30 | Racing against the tide
The Working Waterfront
The Maine Department of Transportation expects to issue initial engineering plans to replace the 90-year-old Deer Isle Causeway in late…
2024-12-21 | A Novel Use for Eastern Hemlock
Northern Woodlands
Most days, Jesup Memorial Library Director Matt DeLaney toils in a tiny Harry Potter-esque office tucked beneath the stairs leading…
2024-09-24 | When you can’t get there from here
The Working Waterfront
The town of Islesboro will be moving ahead with a two-pronged approach to maintain a vital road connection between the…
2024-09-21 | Help in a Hard Time
Northern Woodlands
In September 2023 – after nearly 10 years of planning, clearing, and construction – Darin Schwartz, his wife Dawn Elliott,…
2024-08-19 | Planning for a stormy future pays off
The Working Waterfront
Some local leaders are crediting municipal sea level rise and climate resilence committees for giving their communities a head start…
2024-06-20 | Old Mill, New Market—TimberHP Brings a Paperless Future to Madison
Northern Woodlands
For many Mainers, the 18-month period between 2014 and 2016 felt like the end – full-stop, definitive – of an…
2024-05-14 | Short-term gain, long-term pain?
The Working Waterfront
Short-term rentals have a long and storied history in Maine’s coastal communities. On Mount Desert Island, for example, many families…
2023-12-21 | Learning Logging with Tory Porter
Northern Woodlands
There is a 2016 photo of a young Tory Porter sitting at the business end of a 110-year-old Lombard steam…
2023-12-21 | Lessons in Wood
Northern Woodlands
It has been raining all summer in northern Maine, the 10th wettest summer on record, and this Wednesday in August…
2023-03-21 | Strengthening the Field — Women in Forestry
Northern Woodlands
Elisa Schine, a graduate student in forestry at the University of Maine, is accustomed to being in predominantly male academic…
2022-03-21 | Widening the Circle
Northern Woodlands
It’s a hot, humid August morning in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the kind that usually yields thunder and lightning by day’s…
2021-09-21 | Old Mother West Wind, Laughing Brook, and the Stories that Inspired Generations
Northern Woodlands
Murph and I had ducked into the woods in Phippsburg around 9:30 a.m., hoping to escape the July heat. No…
2020-08-02 | This simple but powerful analog method will rocket your productivity
Fast Company
Over the span of thirty years, Niklas Luhmann published more than 70 books and nearly 400 academic articles—a measure of…
