What’s in a name, anyway?
Kennebec Journal - 10/13/2011.By Denis Thoet – It's an article of faith at the farm that organically raised food tastes better, and is better for us than food grown by "conventional" agriculture with its chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified crops. A 30-year study by the Rodale Institute confirms that organic farming has other substantial benefits. |
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New initiative designed to help connect farmers, consumers
Bangor Daily News - 10/13/2011. By Abigail Curtis – Belfast: When several Belfast City Hall employees joined a community-supported agriculture program this summer, they ultimately cooked up much more than just the fresh vegetables from Bahner Farm in nearby Belmont. |
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Fledgling farms ripen at Six River
Portland Press Herald - 10/12/2011.By Brooke Dojny – I recently spent a couple of days touring several midcoast farms and markets with a group led by John Piotti, director of Maine Farmland Trust. MFT is a statewide nonprofit with the mission of protecting Maine's farmland and keeping farms working. The Trust, which has helped preserve more than 22,000 farm acres since its founding in 1999 and hopes to save 100,000 acres by 2014, uses a series of creative models designed to achieve its goal. |
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Something to squawk about
Portland Press Herald - 10/12/2011. When Steve Hoad and his daughter Rose began producing as many as 2,000 to 2,500 chickens and turkeys on their Windsor farm, they thought it might be a good investment to build their own slaughtering facility to process their birds for market. But after doing a lot of research and crunching some numbers, the Hoads concluded that the project didn't make sense financially. |
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