Volunteers with a Brewer nonprofit, Food AND Medicine, know what it means to be without a job and help out with Thanksgiving baskets filled with Maine produce.
Mary Pols
Mary Pols writes primarily about sustainability for Source. She came to the Press Herald in late 2013 to work on Source after a long career writing about movies. She has almost, but not quite, broken the habit of waking pre-dawn on Oscar nomination day. Mary was born in Portland and raised in Brunswick, but was away for 25 years so it’s been a thrill for her to learn about her state in the 21st century. She studied art history at Duke and her masters in journalism is from UC Berkeley. She’s happiest reporting a story in Maine’s great outdoors, whether she’s watching seaweed farmers plant a crop or eating fresh caught perch with an ice fisherman while a hungry eagle hovers nearby. History really floats her boat as well (once she wrote an entire story about the life of a very old and rare apple tree in Freeport). She lives in Brunswick with her hockey-obsessed son and their dog, a foster-fail kitten and an elderly Maine Coon.
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Meet: Kelsey Sullivan, state biologist, talks wild turkey
After studying the bird, he admires its ability to survive and says its meat is ‘awesome.’
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Mainers can eat wild fish at restaurants, so why can’t we eat wild game?
A welter of old laws governs the distribution of hunted meat and bans its commercial sales. Some chefs say it’s time for those laws to change.
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Meet Jenn Legnini, a farmer-chef who opened a cafe at the Midcoast Winter Farmers’ Market in Topsham
She grows, she pickles, she makes sauces, and her ideas for local food products keep blossoming.
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At Maine’s Cooperative Extension, stars are made
Extension YouTube videos on ‘How to Prevent Sheep Foot Rot’ and the like prove surprisingly popular.
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Meet: Anne Ball, helping nonprofits in historic buildings be tighter, heat-wise
The Grants to Green Maine program lets the groups spend less on energy and more on their missions.
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Thomas Lie-Nielsen’s on a different plane in crafting tools woodworkers crave
His Warren business has built a reputation for making high-quality implements, using Maine wood, that had become hard to get.
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Conservation lawyer Ivy Frignoca named new Casco Baykeeper
She replaces Joe Payne, who retired in January after nearly 24 years on the job.
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Jeremy Bloom is a web-savvy problem solver in Maine’s food system
The Internet Farmer uses his expertise for farmers, co-ops and restaurants.
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Maine’s Florence Reed saves tropical forests
The Surry woman, founder of the nonprofit Sustainable Harvest International, fights deforestation in Central America.