Free Camping During Project Week

By astrig | March 29, 2025

The 31st annual Ship Shape Weekend at Campocean offers a week of free camping in exchange for helping with various projects, from building a greenhouse to expanding trails. Daily activities include meals, chores, and communal gatherings. Participants are encouraged to bring tools and clothing for variable weather. Extended stays are rewarded with warm meals and continued project work. For more information and reservations, contact Astrig and Steve at [email protected] or text (207) 930-5919.

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Tips for Booking Your Perfect Campsite

By astrig | February 18, 2025

We took over the campground more than 30 years ago. Reservations often came in envelopes through the mail with a SASE. We wrote each reservation onto a huge grid of cardboard. Then we mailed back confirmations. How I wish we had saved one of those monthly grids just for the curiosity factor! But those huge…

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Hank’s Meatballs

By astrig | August 5, 2024

Last week we were all about the Armenian Food at the picnic, this Sunday we’ll be enjoying meatballs in the garden…how lucky are we? These days our conversations seem to fall back onto discussions of how much we love meatballs, homemade Italian bread and why Hank calls his tomato sauce “gravy.”  On Sunday we’ll be…

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Mud Season

By astrig | April 17, 2023

The peas, radishes, carrots and beets are planted. The kale and Spring onions are ready for harvest…there’s no holding back now!

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This is wonderful.

By astrig | January 3, 2023

The best piece of advice I heard in 2022, while working in the studio, was from the 10% Happier Podcast: Stop and recognize happy moments when you’re in the middle of them. Literally stop and say out loud, “This is a happy time.” It’s a way to ground yourself in the joyful parts of your…

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Walk with me 

By astrig | May 24, 2016

It’s been a beautifully warm and dry spring.  In the past couple of weeks we’ve hosted many more guests than we usually see before Memorial Day Weekend. Some years I cringe at the thought of sharing our muddy roads and cold fog with people who have traveled so far to be with us; but this…

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Choosing a campsite

By astrig | April 30, 2016

Now’s the time when the reservations start flooding our world…the sun is shining, the tents and RV’s are begging to be opened up and aired out.  In the Spring, most of my morning and evening work hours are spent in front of the computer, answering e-mails, returning phone calls and booking sites.   This is…

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