Birchwood Homestead
Life in the woods of central Maine
Welcome to our humble home in the woods of central Maine!
We hope everyone is surviving these crazy COVID times. The Mrs. and I have been working from here on the homestead, and remaining mostly quarantined since March.
There are new additions to the Library, and a new blog post coming soon! There is also a new Gallery page that we will be adding to as well, so keep checking back for updates. Thanks for stopping by!
Gardens
We have been growing both flowers and vegetables in our outdoor gardens for more than 20 years. While the children were growing up, they loved to run outside on a summers evening to pick beans or tomatoes. Cabbage, lettuce and cukes were also favorites….
Library
I have been gathering information about survival and general prepping for many years. I thought I would share some of the better .PDF’s here. We will also be adding to this library on an ongoing basis. You are free to download any of the…
birchwood on the road
We recently began a new chapter in our lives, when in March of 2020 the COVID pandemic found us both working from home full time. It did not take us long to realize that if we could work full time from Birchwood, we could…
THE NEXT LESSON learned
When we were doing our research, and watching our YouTube videos, and feeling pretty smart for preparing as best we could, we learned many things. (By the way, I want to give a shout out to Mark and Trish from Keep Your Daydream for…
TAKE THE ADVICE
When we were thinking, and planning, and dreaming of ‘one day’ owning our own travel trailer, we did a lot of research, and we got a ton of advice. One piece of advice that I kept hearing was to sleep in our travel trailer…
our maiden voyage
We recently purchased a new travel trailer. Specifically a Keystone Bullet Premier travel trailer. It’s 35 feet long, full kitchen, bath and bedroom. With plenty of room for the two of us and our three dogs. On our first trip in our new rig,…
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