Written by Alissa World Champion LumberJill ​Founder & Owner of the Axe Women Loggers of Maine Do you know what your official state tree is? Here in Maine, our state tree is the White Pine, or the Eastern White Pine (Pinus Strobus). It actually appears on our state flag, our state seal and on the Maine quarter. We even designated the White Pine Cone & Tassel as our Maine State Floral Emblem. The White Pine is the largest conifer found in the northeastern United States, and has stood out through history with such importance, that Maine is commonly referred to as "The Pine Tree State ..read more

Written by Alissa World Champion LumberJill ​Founder & Owner of the Axe Women Loggers of Maine I know I have not been keeping up on my blogging this month... I apologize... we've been juggling several different projects here!    Our crazy busy time actually began back in November... that's when we went to New Gloucester, Maine and spent a day with VAST (Veteran's Adaptive Sports and Training) to provide some axe throwing demos.  It was just about that time that we knew we were onto a pretty good idea... ​We own lots of really fun equipment... like axes and axe throwing targ ..read more

Written by Alissa World Champion LumberJill ​Founder & Owner of the Axe Women Loggers of Maine ​Something that means a lot to me has always been not being wasteful. I hate throwing away food. I hate throwing away clothes that don't fit, or that I don't wear. And I really hate wasting wood.  Most of these are avoidable... a compost bin took care of bits and scraps of food, so I didn't feel wasteful there, since I was recycling things to go back into our gardens... (that was, until the bear dragged our compost bin away...! ) Clothing can be donated and end up with someone who will wear ..read more

Written by Alissa World Champion LumberJill ​Founder & Owner of the Axe Women Loggers of Maine ​Axe throwing lessons during a pandemic?? Who knew?! When our 2020 touring schedule suddenly went from 20 events to 4, we knew we were in for a hugely different year! We were so thankful that we still had shows and events on our calendar... unfortunately, we saw too many of our friends be nearly unemployed for most of 2020.  We fit in a few events in the spring right before things started to close down. Then we were lucky enough to still get to go to Iowa in August and then Nebraska in Octo ..read more

Written by Alissa World Champion LumberJill ​Founder & Owner of the Axe Women Loggers of Maine ​Today is October 1st... for the past several years October has usually been the month that things start to slow down for us. We usually have one or two shows or competitions... but it's normally the month that we eventually make our way back home after several months on the road... in the truck... in hotels... performing... competing... and enjoying all the adventures along the way!  We would normally be opening our home back up, mowing a very tall lawn, starting to split and stack firewoo ..read more

Written by Peter Plott Hound of Axe Women ​ Hello everyone!  Peter PlottHound here again! Some of you may remember my very first attempt at writing a blog back a few months ago (you can check it out here! ) I asked Mom if I could try my paw at blogging again. I bet a lot of you have been pretty curious as to how I've spent my summer.  Well... it was definitely different, not being in the public eye and not getting to see my adoring fans at every AxeWomen show... I have definitely been missing you all!  Ever since Mom and Dad adopted me, we have traveled all over the ..read more

Written by Alissa World Champion LumberJill ​Founder & Owner of the Axe Women Loggers of Maine In this blog post I want to tell you a little history behind the events of log rolling and speed climbing! Definitely two super exciting logging sports competitions!  We don't actually do speed climbing in our AxeWomen shows... but a few of the ladies on our team compete in it across North America and absolutely love it!  We do, however, have log rolling in our shows... always a crowd favorite!    Log rolling has changed so much in just the 20 years that I've been competing ..read more

Written by Alissa World Champion LumberJill ​Founder & Owner of the Axe Women Loggers of Maine ​Our 2020 season had started in March... and ended in March…or so we had thought. Nearly all our scheduled shows, events and competitions had all been postponed and rescheduled for 2021. Nearly all.... We had a show that had originally been scheduled for July in Iowa. We always try to work closely with all our event organizers at each venue we go to. As was the case here.  We all realized that July was not possible (with closures, quarantines and spikes in COVID 19 cases) ... so we discusse ..read more

Written by Alissa World Champion LumberJill ​Founder & Owner of the Axe Women Loggers of Maine ​What is a Lumberjill?? Where did this name originate? Common definitions of a lumberjill are a female lumberjack or a woman who works in the logging industry... felling trees, cutting timber, hauling logs, manufacturing firewood... There is actually a super cool history behind the term "Lumberjill"... A really amazing history that, unfortunately, not nearly enough people know about. Let's change that! Lumberjill was the name used during World War II for members of the Women's Timber Corps. Whil ..read more

Written by Alissa World Champion LumberJill ​Founder & Owner of the Axe Women Loggers of Maine ​ ​Being a logging sports competitor has given me so many exciting opportunities over the years! I get to travel, have amazing adventures, make new friends, try new things... all while earning a living doing something I love! Once in a while things pop up that you'd really never expect... Like the chance to go to New York City to chop logs with Harry Connick Jr, or fly to Los Angeles to throw axes with Queen Latifah... or... film a Carhartt commercial in Detroit!! ​A few years back I was home in ..read more