Tide Mill Farms welcomes visitors
Bangor Daily News - 7/27/2009. By Sharon Kiley Mack – EDMUNDS, Maine – Pauline Golicki sat at a picnic table just outside the milking barn at Tide Mill Farms on Sunday. The smells and sounds were familiar to her: the peep, peep of baby chickens, the call of a barn swallow as it whizzed overhead, the smell of cows and grass in the nearby pasture. Golicki, 85, said she grew up on a farm in New York and was happy to accompany her daughter and granddaughters to Open Farm Day. |
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Guess who’s controlling our food supply?
Common Dreams - 7/27/2009.By Rob Smart – I have a difficult time accepting genetically modified (GM) foods at face value. My primary concerns have to do with what we know, and, more importantly don’t know about how this “promising” technology may or may not be impacting human health and our environment. |
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Open Farm Day offers lessons in living off land
Kennebec Journal - 7/27/2009. By Matthew Stone – BELGRADE, Maine: Phillip Wentzel chose to visit Winterberry Farm with his wife on Sunday because of a family connection to farmer Mary Perry. For Perry, Maine's Open Farm Day was an opportunity to open her doors to the public and inspire. Perry joined more than 100 farmers across the state on Sunday, the 20th annual Open Farm Day, as they opened their farms to the public in the middle of a wet summer season that has delayed some crops and endangered others. Cool, wet weather has suffocated Perry's basil plants, she said, but not the community support for her organic farm. "I couldn't be self-sustaining without my community supporting us," Perry said. |
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Health care debate must include farmers
Common Dreams - 7/26/2009.By Jim Goodman – Our current health care system is crushing farmers. And the proposals under consideration in Congress won’t give us the relief we need. |
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