This is Meg – she’s one of our models. If you visited the house of Meg and her husband Ian in the woods of Maine you’d probably find their (now) toddler in the front yard embroiled in a game of hot pursuit with some overly-friendly chickens.
You’d also see evidence of Ian’s affinity for out buildings – he built their greenhouse, chicken coop, boathouse, woodworking shop and a sauna with his own two hands.
Meg and Ian grow as much of their food as they can in a big garden surrounded by a dilapidated but beautiful raw wood fence. And did we mention that they’re also teachers at the school Ian attended as a kid?
A five-minute commute along the rugged Maine coast gets the couple to work. “Our school is lucky to have access to acres and acres of woods and fields. The children learn to use their hearts and hands as much as their heads and to integrate the three. They spend lots of time outside in the garden, caring for the chickens, tapping the maple trees, learning to knit and blacksmith. We don’t use textbooks and the children create their own beautifully illustrated books on each subject they study,” says Meg. “I have 25 amazing 4th & 5th graders that I’ve been with since they were in the second grade. My husband teaches 8th grade in the classroom on the other side of the wall and, because of the vents, they can hear us singing every morning. Sometimes we take requests.”
Meg and Ian, we love your life!
