When someone sets out to expose a truth that well-heeled special interests would rather keep under wraps, you have to expect some push back. This is just what the “Forks Over Knives” documentary film has encountered. “In the promotion of the film, it’s been very hard to get publicity,” said “Forks Over Knives” creator and […]

A plan by two sisters to package Maine-grown vegetables is the latest effort to make local food easily accessible.

Organic vegetable farmer Lisa Turner blames her choice of profession on cold weather gardening guru Eliot Coleman. “It’s his fault,” Turner said with a smile on a recent afternoon at Laughing Stock Farm in Freeport, which she owns with her husband, Ralph. Lisa Turner was raised in suburban New Jersey and came to the Pine […]