Community rallies for art
Maine Sunday Telegram - 10/21/2012. By Bob Keyes – Hallowell: The folks who run the Harlow Gallery like to think big. They do their share of small exhibitions that go up and come down, with little fanfare. But now and again, they do something way beyond expectation. That's the case with the gallery's latest project, "CSA: Community Supporting Arts." |
Local food distribution goes bi-coastal with new partnership
Treehugger - 10/20/2012. By Mat McDermott – Farmers markets may be great in bringing together local food producers and local food consumers, but without having distribution alternatives to the mega-distributors and markets there's a missing link in the chain of local/regional food production. One new way of addressing that is the new partnership between FoodHub, Ecotrust, and OR FoodEx. |
Russell Libby To Speak at Conference On Slow Food
MOFGA Announcements - 10/19/2012.The University of Maine and ESTIA, a non-profit and non-governmental organization based in Maine and dedicated to the protection of cultural and biological diversity, will host the 9th Annual ESTIA Conference, on Slow Food: A Model for Sustainable and Healthy Living. |
A simple fix for farming
The New York Times - 10/19/2012. By Mark Bittman – It’s becoming clear that we can grow all the food we need, and profitably, with far fewer chemicals. And I’m not talking about imposing some utopian vision of small organic farms on the world. Conventional agriculture can shed much of its chemical use – if it wants to. |