Mary Pols – Page 49 – The Portland Press Herald

Staff Writer

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.

Meet, Source

Meet Meghan Cooper

by Mary Pols December 7, 2014December 7, 2014

The Prospect native is the Island Institute’s 100th ever Island Fellow

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A fruit for all seasons: Act two at Backyard Farms

by Mary Pols November 30, 2014December 6, 2014

The greenhouse operation in Madison recovers from setbacks and is back to meeting strong demand for its firm, red tomatoes, but the sustainability of the business is still unclear.

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Black-operated farms in Maine grow by leaps and bounds

by Mary Pols November 30, 2014November 28, 2014

Nurturing the increase are Cultivating Community and other programs that help immigrants who are eager to farm.

Meet

Meet: Science writer, real estate agent and South Portland resident Hannah Holmes

by Mary Pols November 16, 2014November 13, 2014

South Portland resident Hannah Holmes has published four nonfiction, science-oriented books including “Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality,” “The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself” and “Suburban Safari,” which examined the inhabitants of her backyard (spiders, chipmunks and crows included). But the publication of “Quirk” corresponded with a general crash in […]