The simple pleasure of eating a tomato knows no geographic boundaries. ‘We feel like without tomatoes, the food doesn’t make any sense,’ says one Portland resident who came here from Angola.
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Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Discussions about farm succession plans can be complicated and fraught
A spoonful of sugar – in the form of chocolate-carrot snacking cake with vanilla yogurt glaze – and help from a regional nonprofit can ease the pain.
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The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, through the decades
Fifty years of organic farming, local food, fabulous fairs, advocacy and more.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Local & State, News
Slow Money Maine to dissolve. ‘It just seemed time,’ the founder says.
The networking organization is calling it quits after 11 years of providing funding and technical assistance.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Supreme Court undercuts farm labor organizers
This ruling doesn’t end labor rights in the fields. It just makes it harder for mostly nonwhite, non-English-speaking workers to exercise those rights.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Philanthropist Sussman donates North Haven farm to American Farmland Trust
The national conservation organization will continue using the historic 153-acre Turner Farm as working farmland.
Posted inFood, Local & State, News
Strawberry season arrived early this year, so get picking quick
It might be a short season at pick-your-own farms, many of which opened this week.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside Table: Two excellent books for the farm girl in all of us
“I recently finished rereading ‘The Dirty Life,’ a memoir of an aspiring New York City journalist transplanted to the country to start a 500-acre farm from scratch. Author Kristin Kimball mixes the realism of building a farm and business with enough romanticism to leave me wanting to get my hands in the dirt. The sequel, […]
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Did you thank a farmer today?
Nationwide, farms are struggling to find enough farmhands to raise and pick crops. In Maine, legislators are considering a law to raise their pay.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Saving a heritage orchard, one apple tree at a time
Massachusetts’ Tower Hill Botanic Gardens gets some restoration help from Fedco Trees and inimitable apple man John Bunker.
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