31 Cemetery Road, Montville, ME 04941

This is a homestead in the truest sense, and it has been one recently. Goats and poultry worked this land and the buildings that housed them are still standing and still ready. Between the pasture, the attached barn, the detached barn, and the Quonset hut, there is room for livestock, birds, feed, and equipment without any of it crowding the others. The plantings are the work of years. A medicinal herb garden, apothecary plants, perennial beds and flowers in many varieties, wildflowers put in for the pollinators. Apple trees and a plum tree that produce, raspberry bushes, and a farm pond. The 18th century house at the center of it was built around the same idea, that a property should feed, shelter, and support the people living on it. A forever farm and conservation land surround the property, so the fields and treelines beyond it stay as they are. Downtown Belfast is twenty minutes away, close enough for the co op, the farmers market, and the harbor, far enough that none of it...