04/15/2026
This week we are demoing midcoast vegan hq 1.0, and are making significant improvements to our workspace. These improvements will allow us to continue to expand nationally, if we so choose. The demand is certainly there and the more our products get out on a national scale the more we realize that we can push this thing as far as we want. Now it’s a question of how do we want to live our lives and what sort of settlement can we make with capitalism itself?
This post also accompany photos of foraged perennial vegetables from our Homestead and a song I wrote 12 years ago called “capitalism is tearing us apart.” what to have to do with each other?
When I moved back here in 2018, to Homestead, I saw nothing on the horizon but economic collapse and ruins so I wanted to be apocalypse resistant … the situation called a Vegan Homestead, a vegan cheese farm growing and hazelnuts and chestnuts…. Of course by the time these trees are producing there’s no way they’ll meet the scale of our business, so things like that for me are more proof of concept. Can we use Siberian pea shrubs for pea protein ? 20 years from now will we have an all you can pick chestnut orchard ? This is where the idea for midcoast vegan came from, it’s why I chose sunflower seeds over cashews.
This business has a strange problem, we have not really had to solicit sales to stores(w 3 exceptions), all we have to do is say yes when people reach out to us and ask to carry our stuff. That’s why we never put much effort into our packaging, because our food literally sells itself.
anyway working for $ is something most of us have to do but for me the struggle is for life itself. We want to live well and eat well and as a “small business owner,” this year I will be setting some limits, I want to get back to music. I want to get back to farming, and I want to be a good dad.
Thank you for supporting this business, it has changed our lives over here and we are so grateful for this opportunity.
Last night we made tagine with nettles and ramps, and it was delicious.
Fight the power eat the weeds and get it how you live!!!
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