Photos: Living off the land in Maine
Before opting for a quieter existence in Maine, Kitchens, now 40, worked in the film industry in New York and Los Angeles and lived in Davis Square in Somerville.
Photograph by Winky Lewis
| April 21, 2013
Sharon Kitchens’s new life in Raymond, Maine, includes tending beehives and growing her own produce.
Photograph by Winky Lewis
| April 21, 2013
The “gals,” a.k.a. Kitchens’s 11 chickens, are named for her favorite female authors: Jane Austen, Flannery O’Connor, M.F.K. Fisher, and company.
Photograph by Winky Lewis
| April 21, 2013
Kitchens waters the sunflowers and shows off some of the fruits of her labor—a Blacktail Mountain watermelon . . .
Photograph by Winky Lewis
| April 21, 2013
. . . and Montesino tomatoes.
Photograph by Winky Lewis
| April 21, 2013
Kitchens writes two blogs, The Root for the Portland Press Herald, as well as her own, called Delicious Musings.
Photograph by Winky Lewis
| April 21, 2013
The homestead includes a two-story barn.
Photograph by Winky Lewis
| April 21, 2013
