Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Life in Rural Maine

A spiritual connection with the land, nature, and animals (both wild and domesticated) resulting in a respectful, reverant ecology. A queering of the traditional idealist couple’s back-to-the-land narrative through lesbian eyes replete with plaid flannels and power tools. Heightened and sustained attention to the ecology of nature (deer, other forest denizens) and agriculture (chickens, goats) Faithful and respectful depiction of rural Maine, and northern New England (VT and HN) Intrepid sportswoman, polar explorer, and writer Gretchen Legler tackles her greatest challenge yet – rural, self-sufficient domesticity Cottagecore trending in popular culture Audience, professionals in these fields: organic farming, wild foods, psychology and social work, gardening, literature, writing General readers interested in the following: women and adventure, feminism, memoir, womens stories about place, women and farming, organic farming, gardening, lesbian life, foraging and wild foods, spiritual healing, healing fro trauma, back-to-the-land movement, homesteading, Maine, rural life, goats, raising chickens, making maple syrup, long-term lesbian relationships, LBGTQ, Cottagecore