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The local foods movement and how it affects the economy
Sustain Southern Maine - 6/18/2012.
The Local Foods movement in Maine and New England has the potential to have a major effect on future regional employment, land use, housing, even population, because experts project that by 2050, Maine could be responsible for producing as much as 80% of New England’s locally harvested food.
The buzz on the bees
Maine Sunday Telegram - 6/17/2012.
By Deirdre Fleming – Arundel: Kirstan Watson enjoyed having dozens of honeybees buzzing around her as she inspected one of her three hives. At the other two stacked boxes, there were few bees in the air. But at the one healthy hive, Watson was like an air traffic controller at a busy airport.
Maine gardener: months into gardening season, and still plenty to plant
Maine Sunday Telegram - 6/17/2012.

By Tom Atwell – This has been a strange year for gardening – ahead of schedule and behind at the same time. We planted our first round of peas in late March, earlier than ever before, and they are doing well. There are a few tiny, unfilled pods and lots of blossoms.

Bates student gives up potential career as doctor to become family’s eighth generation of farmers
Bangor Daily News - 6/17/2012.

By Kathryn Skelton – Poland: Tomi Chipman was sitting in an anthropology class at Bates College in Lewiston, on a premed track, and realized she would rather be out in the field with her dad. By last fall, she had made up her mind. When she graduates, Chipman wants to be a farmer.

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