Talking food with chef Melissa Kelly
Down East - 4/20/2009. Why did you choose to come to Maine to open Primo? You know, Price and I both had family ties in Maine. It was important to us. We wanted to be on the coast, someplace on the East Coast. Maine had MOFGA, which was really appealing to me. It’s such a great organization. And there are a lot of farms in Maine. The land is rich, and what I love about Maine is that sometimes I feel like we’re living a little in the past. But it was in the past and yet today it feels like it’s what people are looking for in the future. The old style of living, people are trying to incorporate it back into their lifestyles now. I like being able to live that way. |
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In springtime our thoughts turn to muck
Boston Globe - 4/19/2009.By Beth Daley – ROCHESTER, Vt: Harland McKirryher knows mud. The rural postal carrier drives more than 65 miles a day in his Chevy 4x4, dodging slime holes, gunning it through pits of brown goop, and skillfully riding the ruts other tires have carved into the ooze like a knife. |
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Why we forgot how to grow food
Times of London - 4/19/2009.By John-Paul Flintoff – Not long before Christmas, a man walked into the care home next door to his house and asked the manager if it would be possible for a group of neighbours to grow food in the vast gardens. The manager said he would be delighted. In the days that followed, the man casually asked various neighbours whether they would like to get involved. They all said yes. |
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Find farms while they last
Maine Sunday Telegram - 4/19/2009. By Meredith Goad – For 20 years, Steve Berry wandered the back roads of New England, driving from farm to farm selling aerial photos of fields and farmhouses. Now he is on the road again, logging 60,000 miles a year to make sure the memories of those farms don't disappear. Berry, age 67 and retired from his job as a salesman for an aerial photo company, learned a few years ago that a rival company had at least 25 million aerial photos of farms squirreled away. The photos date back to the 1960s and are a visual record of the changing American rural landscape. |
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