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Sarah Osborne was bitten hard in recent years by the desire to produce her own food.
It started around 2021. She’d started by watching lots of online videos about the homesteading lifestyle. She then got into raising chickens herself, as well as gardening and composting food waste. “I was like, ‘I want to be a part of that,’” said Osborne, who is 37. “It’s been amazing. I love it.”
Now, Osborne is trying to spread the bug around her own community — Winterport — and in the surrounding region. She and her mother, Laurie Maquillan, are starting a business, Peak Composting, for residents and businesses across the midcoast and Greater Bangor that want to make better use of …