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A young politician advocates for her community: Councilwoman Safiya Khalid in Lewiston, ME
A legacy in activism and farming: Clara Coleman of Four Season Farm in Harborside, ME
Christi Johnson of Mixed Color & Stitch Wish: Forging a rural business in textiles and education in Sullivan County, NY
Rural Teen Entrepreneurs: Meet the sister team behind Notes from the North
Inaugual poet Richard Blanco leaves Miami for a small town in Maine
Meet Nichollete Shorts of @broadwaygardener: A NYC actress and backyard gardener who left the city for room to grow in rural New Jersey
An LGBT artist couple leaves Bay Area community to build Stark Hollow Farm in rural Vermont
Musician Marco Benevento and a jewelry designer KT Benevento leave Brooklyn to build a homestead and music studio in Woodstock
From illegal backyard chickens in Philly to a flower and pastry business in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom
Couple leaves the PNW and expands their flower farm and agrarian-focused creative studio in the hills of Vermont
A NYC chef moves to Maine to build a destination cooking school
Sweet Homecomings: Returning to a childhood farm in Vermont to grow an artisanal preserves business
A California farmer and social justic lawyer relocate to Maine for family and affordable farmland
Couple leaves the NYC food service industry and build a thriving catering business in Maine
An artist and a novelist leave Savannah's rich art scene for a quiet New England town on the coast
A Berklee College of Music graduate leaves Boston to build a destination recording studio in seaside town in Maine
A back-to-the-land farming legacy: Meet Eliot Coleman, one of the forces behind the organic growing movement
Artists and NYC service workers leave the city to start an organic CSA in rural Maine
A tour of Saveur editor-in-chief's ecclectic home in the small community of Athens, NY
Two artists/musicians leave the NYC service industry to grow food and raise animals for their bosses farm-to-table empire
Telecommuting creative couple leave Boston for a storybook rental in the Massachusetts countryside
Meet NYTimes best selling writer Melissa Coleman: A child of the original back-to-the-land movement
Boston rockers leave the city to start a new chapter on a small island in Maine
A fresh start: Prolific photographer Joyce Tenneson leaves NYC for a small Maine town after the death of her partner
Chloe Jo Davis, a lifelong New Yorker on why she's leaving after Covid-19 and not looking back
Painter leaves NYC to build a thriving art career and gallery in a small coastal Maine town
Goat dairy gamble: A cross-country move to Rural Maine with 40 animals along for the ride @coppertailfarm
A celebrated novelist and filmmaker leave NYC for a quiet cabin on the outskirts of the Berkshires
Artists @missverse and @jimmyaceino leave the city with their kids for more room to roam
Beekeeper and musician leaves Brooklyn to build a farm-based business upstate
Illustrious artist couple leaves the city for a perfect work/live space in the countryside outside of Hudson
Los Angeles furniture makers move to east to artfully restore a crumbling historic home in rural New York
Photographer leaves Boston to find inspiration in the country & builds a world-renowned fine-art career
Big Picture Farm: An artist and a writer leave academia to build a goat milk confectionery business in the lush mountains of Vermont
Grounded Local: Woman leaves NYC to farm and builds a edible landscaping business in Maine
Tour writer and homesteader, Kirsten Lie-Nielsen of @hostilevalleyliving's 200-year-old farm in Maine
Odd Alewives Brewery: Art professors leave Baltimore academia to build a craft brewery in rural Maine
Sustainable Dish: Meet paleo advocate, nutritionist, farmer, and writer Diana Rodgers
SoLo Farm and Table: Chef and front of house manager leave NYC fine dining world to build two farm-to-table restaurants in Vermont
Young couple leaves the city to start a sustainable composting business in a small town
Made in Ghent: Advertising executive leaves corporate world to build a farm business and photography career upstate
Seguin Tree Dwellings: Brothers return with their families to their back-to-the-land childhood stomping grounds in Maine and build a magic treehouse vacation business
Meet Lane and Meryl of @prospectfarm: They left Portland and moved east to build a pasture-raised meat business in New England
A Newsweek reporter leaves the city, finds a passion for pottery, and establishes a freelance writing career in a small Maine town
Longest Acres Farm: Couple leaves the San Francisco tech industry to build a pasture-raised meat business and farmstead in the mountains of Vermont
A NYC artist family leaves the city and moves into a storybook house in the rural outskirts of the Berkshires
Textile artist and sculptor leave the city to caretake an off-grid island in Maine
Betty Forever: A NYC restaurant manager moves to Maine with her young son and builds a builds a floral/event design business and restaurant/retail space
Free Verse Farm: A poet and a herbalist leave San Diego plant roots in Vermont
