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MOFGA
PO Box 170, Unity, Maine 04988
Phone: 207-568-4142
Fax: 207-568-4141
Email: mofga@mofga.org
Physical Address:
294 Crosby Brook Road
Unity, Maine
MOFGA is an Equal Opportunity organization, provider, and employer.
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Beautiful Bowls, Savory Soup, Friends
With music by Gray Parrot
MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee Empty Bowl Supper
Want to buy a handsome, Maine-made bowl and support the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee's work – all for just $15 ($35 maximum for families)? Come to the committee's 17th annual Empty Bowl Supper on Saturday, April 28, at 6 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Belfast.
Please join us for delicious soups, breads donated by the Back 40 Bakehouse, desserts and to socialize. Enjoy live music by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine, and take home a beautiful bowl, handcrafted and donated by a Maine potter. For more information, please call MOFGA. Tickets will be available at the door.
More about the MOFGA El Salvador Sistering Committee
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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
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The value of being greener
The 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. |
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. |
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. |
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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Saanen Buckling, good future breeder. by Belfast Blueberry Cooperative & 3 Streams Farm: "Saanen buckling for sale, born 4/17/18. Mom, my Josie, milked as a virgin for 2 years prior, on tree leaf fodder and pasture..." |
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Wild Folk Farm Summer Housing by Wild Folk Farm: "We have a screenhouse that is open for summer months. 5 or so hours trade for room, on grid amenities, access to the farm an..." |
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Tree Leaf Fodder intern position by Belfast Blueberry Cooperative & 3 Streams Farm: "Tree Leaf Fodder internship, 12 hr./week position will complete 4 person team May 1 thru October, for SARE grant project on "..." |
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April 21 - Earth Day Planting Day at MOFGA |
Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., MOFGA's Common Ground Education Center, Unity. Celebrate Earth Day in Unity by joining the spring clean up at our Common Ground Education Center and by planting new apple trees in the Maine Heritage Orchard. We'll get ready for the growing season and learn about the importance of mulching. Our planting day is a great way to enjoyfresh air and the company of other MOFGA supporters. All ages and experience levels are welcome. We'll provide lunch and a selection of T-shirts for volunteers. To RSVP, please go to: mofga.formstack.com/forms/earthdayandmehoregistration. For more information, please email volunteers@mofga.org. |
April 22 - Cooking Class with New Mainers |
Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m., Temple Beth El, Augusta, Maine. Interested in learning new recipes for your fresh Maine vegetables? Learn from New Mainers as they teach you how to cook some of their traditional dishes. You'll be able to help prepare foods, taste them, and take home new recipes to your family. Our chefs are participants in the Learning English Through Cooking class, a program of Cooperative Extension and the Central Area New Mainers Project. Suggested donation $20. Please RSVP to alibby@mofga.org. Space is limited. |
April 28 - Maine School Garden Day |
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Maine Academy of Natural Science, Hinckley, Maine. A full day of workshops and networking for school garden enthusiasts. Information and registration |
April 28 - Grafting Fruit Trees |
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor. Learn to propagate and reproduce your favorite fruit tree varieties. Fee: $50; $40 for MOFGA members. Registration |
April 28 - Empty Bowl Supper hosted by the MOFGA El Salvador Sistering Committee |
6 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Belfast, Maine. Information |
May 12 - Organic Orcharding Workshop: Top Grafting Fruit Trees |
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Three locations: Mueller's Fruit Farm, Thorndike; Morning Glory Farm, Bethel; Eden Acres Farm, East Waterboro. Fee: $50; $40 for MOFGA members. Learn to topwork new, disease-resistant, cider, dessert or heritage varieties onto your existing trees. Registration |
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