BELFAST — In concert with Maine Fare Friday and Saturday, June 26 and 27, Maine Farmland Trust has organized a number of art-full events throughout the city…
Agriculture
Pollinator Week June 15-21
CAMDEN — The 2014-2015 school year is winding down around the Midocast, and as they have for a number of years, eighth-graders at Camden-Rockport Middle School are spending the day before their…
Knox and Lincoln Counties 4-H Leaders' Association, a program of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, seeks volunteers to assist at the 4-H Farm-to-Fair exhibit at the Union Fair.
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NEW YORK — Eliot Coleman, owner of Four Seasons Farm in the Hancock County town of Harborside has been selected by the James Beard Foundation as the winner of one of its five…
ROCKPORT — After the long, snow-filled winter, Aldermere Farm is in need of replacing and repairing the fences that…
UNION, ME - Applications are now being accepted for the title of 2015 Maine Wild Blueberry Queen.
The Maine Wild Blueberry Queen serves as an ambassador for Maine's wild blueberry industry.…
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Farmers Market opened for the season Thursday morning at Harbor Park, and there were a few new faces and some new products mixed among the traditional traveling market…
MONMOUTH — Farmers must file a Highly Erodible Land Conservation and Wetland Conservation Certification form with the USDA Farm Service Agency by June 1 to become or remain eligible for premium…
AUGUSTA — Nominations are now open for the Governor's Awards for Environmental Excellence, which will honor entities that go beyond standard techniques or regulatory requirements to meet…
Plants Unlimited has all the colors of the rainbow
ROCKPORT — There’s just no denying spring is here when you see Plants Unlimited, 629 Commercial Street, setting up shop for the summer season and putting the pansies out. Emily Buck, general…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's Maine Coastal Program is seeking applications for a new round of coastal grants for fiscal year 2016.
The grants…
MDACF seeks sub-recipient applications
AUGUSTA — The Federal-State Market Improvement Program (FSMIP) is seeking applicants for a agricultural match grants.
The Federal-State Market Improvement Program (FSMIP) is funded by the…
ROCKPORT — This week last year, persistent cold had all but frozen Tom Cox out of his sugarhouse. And although the sap had run for a day-and-a-half this week and allowed him to collect a few…
Donations of towels still being accepted this spring
ROCKPORT — The pastures at Aldermere Farm in Rockport remained covered in deep snow the day after St. Patrick’s Day, and while there’s no obvious sign of the farm’s famous belted Galloway cattle…
AUGUSTA — Millions of dollars in grant funding to…
UNION — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Knox-Lincoln Farm Bureau and Union Farm Equipment will conduct a tractor safety course beginning Wednesday, April 8 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
FALMOUTH — Farm tractor safety courses taught by University of Maine Cooperative Extension educators and area experts are scheduled in Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and Waldo counties.
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$163,000 available for grants up to $20,000, and $1,089,000 for grants over $20,000
Bangor — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that rural agricultural producers and small business owners can now apply for resources to purchase and install renewable energy systems or…
SEARSPORT — The Searport Farmers' Market is getting ready for its second year and is looking for additional vendors.
The market is on Route One, on the Crescent of the Penobscot Marine…
Maine Coast Heritage Trust a recipient
AUGUSTA — Maine Coast Heritage Trust has been awarded $290,000 from the Maine Natural Resource Conservation Program. The Trust will use the money to protect 41 acres near Long Cove in Saint…
Town will get help from federal agencies to develop, expand local agriculture
UNITY — The Town of Unity has been selected as one of 26 communities from around the country to participate in a federal initiative called Local Foods, Local Places. The town will receive expert…
Sept. 19-21
UNITY — It’s here. Ayuh, it is. Although the trees may not be showing it just yet, a sure sign that autumn is not too far away is the arrival of the Common Ground Country Fair weekend, Friday,…
New owners aim to catch Canadian harvest
BELFAST - Blueberry juice.
On Tuesday, telltale beads of the stuff trickled from under a garage door into the parking lot next to the Coastal Farms and Foods building on Route 1. Nearer to…
Purchase would allow expansion of county’s vegetable garden
BELFAST - Five years ago, county officials started a vegetable garden on a 5-acre piece of farmland in Swanville with the dual goal of offering meaningful work to residents of the state prison…
Maine Agricultural Fair Season begins next week, July 3–6, with the Houlton Agricultural Fair. For four days, the family fun event will feature over 25 games for…
inaugural Farm to Table Dinner Friday, June 27, at 6 p.m.
NORTHPORT — It’s not commonly known that athenahealth owns Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center in Northport, but it makes sense that CEO Jonathan Bush had a strong interest in…
Sale of blueberry processing business may be in the works
BELFAST – Last month Coastal Farms and Foods representatives announced …
Coastal Farms and Food Processing to shut doors after two years
BELFAST - After two years in business, Coastal Farms and Food Processing will be closing its doors at the end of the month.
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Freezing temps are making for frozen sap, local delays in boiling...
ROCKPORT — This winter, the cold won't seem to let up. But that is not stopping Maine Maple Sunday from happening this weekend, and when the thaw does come the Maine Maple Producers Association is…
The newly formed Waldoboro Farmer's Market is now accepting applications for the 2014 season. The market will be held Wednesday afternoons from 3 to 6 p.m., beginning June 18 and concluding…
Maine's Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fairs, cosponsored by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) and local Maine groups, are part celebration and part education, as…
Maine women in farming, 37 percent; national average, 15 percent
ROCKLAND — Cheryl Denz, local farmer and owner of Terra Optima Farm and Terra Optima Market in Rockland, gave a lively and at times touching talk about her experience as…
Maine Farmland Trust Gallery
BELFAST — Maria and Richard King from Goat Spirit Farm in Liberty raise goats. Jackson Mcleod, and Tyler Gaudet from Fluid Farms in North Yarmouth grow fish and lettuce in their…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District
On Wednesday, Nov. 6, Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (KLSWCD) held its annual awards banquet at the North Nobleboro Community…
Texting and driving, privacy, no jury duty for grandma
AUGUSTA – A slew of laws that were passed during the first session of the 126th Maine Legislature, or were included in the state’s $6.3 billion biennial 2013-14 spending plan, took effect on…
Event at Montpelier celebrates local foodies, farmers and fishermen
THOMASTON — Looking for something to do this Saturday? Oct. 12, the Knox Museum will host its inaugural "Taste of Thomaston," a food and wine festival celebrating notable local chefs, vintners,…
No decision yet on agriculture association’s Unity property
THORNDIKE - An application by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association for property tax exempt status in Thorndike has been denied by town officials. Waldo County officials have denied…
Century-old building travels by truck, and horse
KNOX - To look at it, the East Knox School — a one-room school house built in 1898 — hadn’t received much attention in recent years. The paint was peeling and…
Learning about the roots of food
It was a busy weekend for Genna Cherichello, Food Corps service member with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. On April 26, she helped Oceanside East’s High School Foundations Program…
Search for new executive director still underway, appointment expected by June
THORNDIKE and UNITY - The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is seeking exemption from property taxes on the roughly 400 acres in two Western Waldo County towns where the organization…
The food entrepreneurs of Coastal Farms
BELFAST - It was on a break from college, visiting the family of his future-wife, that Brian McCarthy tasted dilly beans for the first time. His thought at the time was: why have I never had these…
BELFAST – Jan Anderson was serving on the City Council in 2009 when she first shared her vision of Belfast becoming a regional storage and processing hub for farmers and food entrepreneurs. Her…
With help from a noble horse...
Signing up with the Oyster River Farm Express was one of the first things Loren Brown did when he moved to Rockland last summer. He was eager to get to know local farms…
Case heard in federal appeals court
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A year after their case against multinational agricultural corporation Monsanto was thrown out by a New…
Rokes Farm
CAMDEN — If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village and then some to raise local foods. One of Camden's largest farm properties, with prime agricultural soils, a prominent location…
Staying green through the winter
The gardening season in Maine is over for most of us, so what’s a gardener to do? Here are a few initial suggestions, with more to come.
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UNITY — The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association announced today, Dec. 9, the death of its beloved leader Russell Libby,…
