"Local is the distance the heart can follow."
- Odessa Piper, Chef
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PO Box 170
294 Crosby Brook Road
Unity, ME 04988
Phone: 207-568-4142
Fax: 207-568-4141
Email: mofga@mofga.org
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Everett Ottinger and Molly Crouse
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Know Your Organic Producers!
Meet MOFGA certified organic farmers Molly Crouse and Everett Ottinger. Molly owns Nettie Fox Farm (www.nettiefoxfarm.com) in Newburgh, where she has been raising vegetables, herbs, cut flowers and vegetable seedlings. She sells through her CSA, at farmers' markets (the Common Ground Country Fair, Penobscot Valley, Northeast Harbor and Bangor), at the Natural Living Center and from the farm. Molly, a former MOFGA farmer-in-residence, grew up just a few miles from the land where she now farms, went away to work on farms far and near, then returned to Newburgh. She named her farm for her grandmother.
Everett owns Del Rio Farm in Penobscot, where he has been raising vegetables and herbs. He sells to the Blue Hill Coop, Cheryl Wixson's Kitchen, Arborvine restaurant, MOFGA and the Magic Food Bus. The latter delivers vegetables, library books, information about local farms and tips on healthy food preparation. It is a project of Healthy Peninsula, which mobilizes, supports and collaborates with community partners to improve the health of the towns of the Blue Hill peninsula, Deer Isle and Stonington.
Molly and Everett have merged their farms, and Everett will be farming in Newburgh next year. They'll be raising mixed vegetables, chickens and pigs.
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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
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The value of being greener
Boston Globe - 8/22/2011. By Kathleen Pierce – There was a time when farm life was impossible without a big, beefy truck. Carting bales of hay and hauling equipment took a burly gas-guzzler. At Otter River Farm, David Smith’s utility vehicle uses no gas at all. Zipping around his dairy in Winchendon, home to Smith’s Country Cheese, on a zero-emissions golf cart, Smith is blazing a path for greener and cleaner times in agriculture. |
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Harvesting all that the August garden has to offer
Bangor Daily News - 8/20/2011. By Reeser Manley – For this gardener August means ripe blueberries and ripening tomatoes, fresh cucumbers every day, the first basil harvest, a river of orange and yellow self-sown calendulas flowing through the vegetable garden. August is stepping gingerly over elephant-ear leaves of winter squash, broccoli seedlings growing on the porch rail, goldfinches pecking at sunflower heads, the fragrance of summersweet blossoms, oak trees with moth-eaten leaves, ripe acorns in the grass. |
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Plants, animals migrating upward as climate changes
Bangor Daily News - 8/19/2011.By Brian Vastag – Across the globe, plants and animals are creeping, crawling, slithering and winging to higher altitudes and higher latitudes as global temperatures climb. Moreover, the greater the warming in any given region, the farther its plants and animals have migrated, according to the largest analysis to date of the rapidly shifting ranges of species in Europe, North America, Chile and Malaysia. |
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Only thing consistent about Maine weather is its inconsistency
Kennebec Journal - 8/19/2011.By Denis Thoet – All farmers seem to do, besides farming, is complain about the weather. In 2009, we had 20-plus inches of rain during that June and July, and the moaning was as loud as the highway noise on Interstate 295 when the wind is right. "You can't do anything about the weather," is the typical whine. So, after the initial braying, it's time to think about what to do, then do it: Irrigate in drought and shelter your crops in stretches of wet weather. |
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Farmsitter Wanted in South Georgia by MOFGA.net: "We need a farmsitter in south Georgia for the months of February, March, and April 2014. We are looking for an interested cou..." |
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January 3, 2014 - MOFGA’s Common Ground radio show
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10 to 11 a.m., on WERU, 89.9 and 99.9 FM and weru.org
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January 7 - MOFGA Annual Membership Meeting
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Maine Agricultural Trades Show, Augusta Civic Center. Hear reports from MOFGA board members, staff and committees; vote on a slate of board members. Q&A period. This is also MOFGA Day at the Trades Show – a full day of presentations and workshops on organic production in Maine. Free. Schedule.
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January 7 to 9 - Maine Agricultural Trades Show |
Augusta Civic Center. Free admission. www.getrealmaine.com
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January 11 - NOFA-Mass Winter Conference
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Saturday, Worcester State University, Worcester, Mass. Early bird registration discount ends Dec. 15. Conference details.
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January 11 - Penobscot County MOFGA Stone Soup Social
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MOFGA members and prospective members in Penobscot County are welcome to a Stone Soup Social at the Bangor Grange, 1192 Ohio St., Bangor. Doors will open at 1 p.m., and a meal will be served around 2:30. Snow date January 25. RSVP: Galen Young, Galen.the.beekeeper@gmail.com, noting how many people you are bringing and what you plan to bring.
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