Forget The Gym Membership | Invest In A Maine Farm For That Daily Healthy Work Out.

Working up a sweat on the gym treadmill is a lot like treading water.... whereas working the dirt, tending the critters and crops will make you Maine farm "high school skinny".

Lean and mean and in the best shape of your life.

With something to show for the sweat, struggle and equity you daily put into the Maine farm outdoor / in the barn, tractor shed, granary workout routine.

The total work out where you can see what you did as you look out over that field of plants growing skyward. In a row like tin soldiers marching toward a fall harvest victory.

Where you truck farm, sell the produce at a road side stand, downtown Maine farmers market.

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Or shipped down country to restaurants, grocery stores that gobble up what the good old Maine farm soil, a little water, a lot of sunshine and attention create.

Maine farming though challenges you, puts you through the paces. When you wake up to water, grain, hay the critters. And realize something big plowed through the fence to get in to the corral. It was a Maine moose that mistook your black and white Holstein or brown Jersey cow for a female that he had designs on rubbing up against. Getting to know better, up close and personal.

The weatherman says rain and his prediction for today was dead on correct, accurate for a change. Not a day off on the Maine farm.

Instead, your mental list from the job jar is reviewed. It's decided with a "decision made in the field" that new brakes on the 1953 Farmall tractor is today's mission.

You have the parts on the work bench for the delicate surgery.

Just needed the time to fit in the "Divine Miss M" for a barn yard office call inside the machine shed and to perform the operation.

There is no feeling like owning a Maine farm. That you raise a family on and where everyone pitches in.

No one has the option of being lazy or a whiner on a Maine farm.

Always grateful for the break in the unknowns of weather, yields, market prices. Taking it all in stride and being in the best physical shape of your life. Mentally satisfied because you are serving your family home grown vegetables, fruits, produce. And heating with wood from your own land. Next year's fire wood in tree length, beside the barn and processed slowly. With the family helping with the theory in practice of "many hands make light work" thinking.

On a Maine farm your neighbors are spaced, far and few. You notice things like the brilliant array of stars overhead on a black velvet sky. Your awareness of life, the seasons and what's real, good that comes from the earth, the elements around you. It puts the journey of life in perspective. And your kids may need a patch of dirt, a section of the farm to make a living. To feed their kids, your grandchildren.

Your nickname as a "granola, back to nature John Boy hippy type" given to you by your corporate "guys in the ties" makes you smile.

Because the majority of them envy you. Wished they could run away from the concrete urban jungle of crime, grit, noise, hub bub caused by too many people, wall to wall traffic. To get rid, removal of the tractor tire forming around their waist from being pinned to the office wall.

Parked with a phone growing out of their ear all day long. With lots of mental stress. No physical exercise. That tire of fat, flab, grazing on hurried fast food is not going away and literally is a big part of them now. Because the 20 minute workout three times a week is not cutting it. Not producing the abs of steel, stomach wash board, six pack look at the country club expensive gym.

Make the call. Consider this Maine farm example. A 130 acres of Maine land, farm house and new barn with waterfrontage. All parked near the Canadian US border boundary in Monticello ME, Aroostook County. Watch the Maine farm video.

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