<p>After being mugged for the third time in twenty years, Andrea Suarez-Hill knew she could no longer live in New York City.&nbsp; She and her partner, Arthur Hill,&nbsp; read a three-line advertisement in Down East Magazine, &ldquo;Last land on the coast of Maine for sale&rdquo;&nbsp; and went to take a look.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What they found was eleven acres of trees which had been logged twenty years before and blighted by an infestation of spruce budworm. &nbsp;But,&nbsp; the beauty of the Chandler River with an old farm on the opposite shore more than made up for the work that lay ahead.&nbsp; Two years later,&nbsp; they left their careers in New York to find a new way to live.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They planned to call their new home &ldquo;The Lough&rdquo; due to its location on a bay at the mouth of the Chandler River. But, as they worked to clear the land, a friend who helped them, Jon Watts, said &ldquo;you have a budworm farm&rdquo;&nbsp; and the name stuck. Budworm Farm was born and stands today because of townspeople like Jon, Mark Alley, Al Caruso, Ginny Fieldman, the Snowdeal family and Mary ' Eddie Stubbs.&nbsp;&nbsp; With the help and guidance of all these locals, the Hills began to create a farm to fit their vision.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The poems and photos in The Making of Budworm Farm express the life they made together over the past thirty-four years. The poetry explores subjects in down-to-earth language, painting a story full of pictures: the seasons, each with its own scent, sounds, rituals and weather to tend, as well as emotional landscapes that describe the passage of time with nature, horses and each other.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;From image to image, one sees Budworm Farm evolve as the land is shaped and rites of passage mark the years: the birth of a colt, the death of both mentors and friends (both two and four-legged) and the changes in the climate that affect the seabirds, fishery and the lives of all beings.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>