Welcome to the Juniper Hill Farm's first blog. Today we want to celebrate the birth of another "family farm". Not a four hundred acre spread with a weathered farmhouse and a leaning barn, but a little 20 Acre lot in Bowdoin, Maine with a place for all: man, woman, child, animal and plant alike.
In the coming weeks and months we will let you folks share in the challenges and rewards that come with "doing for ourselves" as we like to call it. You might call our farm a "subsistence" farm. Growing our own food and fuel and doing for ourselves in any way we can. If we're lucky and Mother Nature allows, maybe we have enough to share or sell, maybe enough to pay the taxes, or maybe not.
While many family farms have been lost to development pressure, many more were simply left by our ancestors, in search of a better life. Easier maybe in the cities, but certainly not better.
I believe that those families that never left the backcountry farms have a greater appreciation for family ties and the duty to continue a family tradition of hard work, faith and dedication to the land. We hope you enjoy the thoughts, as random as they may be from time to time, and we hope to hear from you soon.
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