The Desert of Maine (Desert Week)
We’re continuing the first annual GSS Desert Week! We’re mostly posting about deserts and it’s lasting about a week! The 40 acre Desert of Maine is located in a pine forest near the town of Freeport. Although not a real desert, the “sand” is natural to the area: it is glacial silt that would have been ground down under the earth sometime around the last ice age. The silt would have remained hidden underground if it wasn’t for some poor farming practices in the early 1900s that eroded all the soil. The farmer eventually had to sell up…