"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."
- Geri Weitzman
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Support MOFGA's Maine Heritage Orchard
Sales of our beautiful 2014 Heritage Orchard Calendar will help support MOFGA and the orchard. Full-color photos of apples originating in Maine were taken by widely acclaimed Portland photographer Russell French and include Black Oxford, Gray Pearmain and others. $15. Available at MOFGA's Country Store.
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Governor LePage Signs Maine's GMO Labeling Bill!
Thanks so much to everyone who worked so hard to help Maine become the second state in the country to require labeling of GMO foods!
Read the full press release.
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PO Box 170
Unity, ME 04988
Phone: 207-568-4142
Fax: 207-568-4141
Email: mofga@mofga.org
Physical Address:
294 Crosby Brook Road, Unity, ME
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Volunteers' Earth Day Cleanup Day at MOFGA's Common Ground Education Center
Saturday, April 19
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) will host an Earth Day Cleanup Day with volunteers at MOFGA's Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine, on Saturday, April 19, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Celebrate Earth Day by helping us prepare our grounds for the upcoming growing season. Volunteers receive a hearty lunch and a free T-shirt.
Depending on the weather, volunteers may be cleaning, raking and mulching gardens, screening compost for use on the grounds, doing light carpentry, helping our Low-Impact Forestry Committee with its work in the woods ... or helping with other projects.
For more information or to RSVP for the workday, please contact our volunteer coordinator, Anna Libby, at alibby@mofga.org or 568-4142. MOFGA's Common Ground Education Center is located in Unity, Maine, on the Crosby Brook Road, off Routes 139/220.
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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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Check out MOFGA's
online community!
Create your own profile website
List products and services that you offer
Post classified ads
Join forum discussions |
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Blueberry land for rent by Howard Brower: "For rent: Property owner has two long established large working blueberry farms for rent to blueberry growers: Windsor, Maine..." |
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For Rent: Blueberry Land by Howard Brower: "Property owner has two long established large working blueberry farms for rent to blueberry growers: Windsor, Maine - 155 acr..." |
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labor for art? by jasper gardner: " Hello- My name is Chenda Cope. I'm an artist and a musician from upstate NY and Philadelphia. I'm looking for a place to spe..." |
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Full Time Employment, Belfast Area by Piper Stiles: "I am seeking full time employment in the Belfast/Midcoast area to begin immediately. Would prefer a Monday-Friday schedule bu..." |
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Ducks by Ed: "My family is interested in adding a few ducks to the backyard flock. Something calm and good with kids, dogs, chickens and g..." |
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April - Grow Your Own Organic Garden Classes |
Evening classes on soil fertility, compost, crop rotation, green manures, pest control. Most classes were held on April 2nd. The following locations will hold classes later in the month: Bucksport - April 16; Gray - April 23. Class details
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April 19 - Maine Heritage Orchard Workday at MOFGA (postponed from April 12)
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Unity, rain or shine. Plant 102 heirloom apples and hundreds of companion plants. Volunteers will be on hand to teach planting. No charge – Everyone welcome! Bring your own lunch. If possible, please bring shovels, rakes and wheel barrows! If you are attending, please RSVP by emailing Anna Libby (alibby@mofga.org) or by calling the MOFGA office (207) 568-4142.
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April 23 - MOFGA's Seasonal Cooking Class with Chef Frank Giglio |
Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., MOFGA Kitchen at Common Ground Education Center, Unity, Maine. Cost: $30, including lunch (and recipes to take home). Details and registration. |
April 26 - Empty Bowl Supper Fundraiser
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6 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Miller St., Belfast. Join MOFGA's El Salvador Sistering Committee for its annual Empty Bowl Supper fundraiser. For just $15 ($35 maximum for families; tickets at the door), attendees enjoy delicious soups, breads and desserts, get to see friends, and take home a beautiful bowl, handcrafted and donated by a Maine potter.
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April 30 - Waldo Organic Growers Program: Bats
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Speaker Annie Kassler of Bat Conservation will show slides and video. Potluck: Please bring a plate, silverware and a dish to share. MOFGA library, Unity. 6:00 p.m.
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May 4 - MOFGA's Chainsaw Safety Workshop |
Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., $50/members, $60/non-members. Details and registration. |
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See the full calendar ... |
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