PORTLAND — As she walked along the wharf at 400 West Commercial St., Leah Cook had a question. “So who is schlepping?” she asked of almost a dozen volunteer stevedores helping to go back to the future of seafaring with Maine Sail Freight, a project designed to get consumers and producers to re-examine sustainable interstate […]
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UMF students practice sustainability with local alumni farmers
FARMINGTON — While washing potatoes Friday at Rustic Roots Farm, Casandra Moreau reflected on the changes she and classmates are making as a result of a No Impact service learning experiment at the farm. Moreau, a junior studying early childhood education at the University of Maine at Farmington who commutes from Skowhegan, is taking an […]
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Farmington board holds to rules, postpones application review
FARMINGTON — Planning Board members approved applications for construction of a Family Dollar store, a new barn for L. Herbert York and a parking lot expansion for William Marceau on Monday. But by a vote of 4-3, they declined to review an application for construction of additional storage buildings because the application was submitted a […]
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Farm bureau provides money for MOO Milk suppliers
PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine Farm Bureau is authorizing use of an emergency fund to assist organic farmers who supplied the Maine’s Own Organic Milk company with milk. Maine’s Own Organic Milk, better known as MOO Milk, announced last week that it is folding. The nonprofit farm bureau announced Wednesday that Maine Farm Bureau Disaster […]
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Maine farmer’s fresh, organic turkeys ‘had a happy life’
SCARBOROUGH — Turkeys at Frith Farm are counting the days. Since July, Daniel Mays has nurtured 100 feathered friends on his organic farm in Scarborough. From tiny hatches, to bright-eyed birds that “cluck and pop and make all sorts of noises,” when they are happy, his broad-breasted bronze beauties are in demand as Thanksgiving nears. […]
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A fan of farmers: New MOFGA executive director brings diverse experiences to Maine
UNITY — The new executive director of the country’s oldest and largest state organic organization has some big gardening shoes to fill, but brings with him decades of experience helping small farmers all over the country. Ted Quaday took the helm at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association at the beginning of October. He […]