Landscape History

Landsccape history is one of my interests and the internet provides a plethora of images. Sitting in Maine on a snowy day and visiting the world is lovely. I can go to Assisi right now. This is from the Garden and Landscape Guide.
Another good site is History at the Table because if you get interested in landscape history then you must get interested in the food.
There are three local places to pursue Maine's agricultural history.

A local place to visit is Leonard's Mills in Bradley that has a garden and food served at their Living History Days.

 The Curran Homestead in Orrington. Which says on their website Located in a bucolic setting on Field's Pond in rural Orrington, Maine, The Curran Homestead is a turn-of-the-twentieth-century living history farm and museum. Its current status as a non-profit entity is the result of the wishes of the late Mary Catherine Curran, whose family operated a subsistence farm with a dairy, poultry flock, vegetable crops, and a large woodlot that provided income to cover necessities.  Alfred Curran, who predeceased his sister by five weeks, had owned the farm with his brothers since the time of their father’s death in 1941; he and his brothers often found employment off the farm. Catherine worked for the Bangor Telephone Company for much of her adult life, and Alfred is known to have been a frequent “jobber,” in addition to running a dairy and firewood business, doing service-in-kind on Orrington roads to meet the farm’s property taxes, and intermittent work on the Maine Central Railroad. Among the five children of the Curran household, Frank was the only one to marry, have children, and seek a life off the farm as the eventual administrative head of Eastern Maine Medical Center. In 1959, a separate modern home adjacent to the western side of the main barn was constructed for Catherine to live in, and this structure still stands but is privately owned.  It would be Alfred and Catherine who would eventually survive their siblings and decide the future fate of the farm together.  When Miss Curran died in 1991, having recently acquired ownership, her will directed a portion of the homestead to be preserved in its original form. 

And Page Farm at the University of Maine in Orono. The mission of the Page Farm & Home Museum is to collect, document, preserve, interpret and disseminate knowledge of Maine history relating to farms and farming communities between 1865 and 1940, providing an educational and cultural experience for the public and a resource for researchers of this period.