"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."
- E.B. White
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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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Minnesotans pay a price for crop fertilizer at faucet
Minneapolis Star Tribune - 12/23/2012. By Josephine Marcotty – Hastings, Minn.: Debbie Carlson can laugh at the irony: She's the wife of a well digger who can't find good water for his own family. Like one out of three wells in Dakota County, hers is so contaminated with nitrates she won't let anyone drink from it – especially her 8-year-old granddaughter. Most likely it comes from nitrogen used as fertilizer on the cornfields surrounding her home. |
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Amazing new house proves that green doesn’t have to mean expensive
Grist - 12/23/2012. By Jared Green – Lakiya Culley just moved into one of the most innovative, energy-efficient houses in the U.S. Empowerhouse, which uses “passive house” technologies, produces all of its own energy while consuming 90 percent less energy for heating and cooling than a conventional home. |
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Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Set to OK 'Frankenfish'
Common Dreams - 12/22/2012. The US Food and Drug Administration said Friday that a genetically modified salmon that grows twice as fast as normal salmon is 'unlikely' to harm the environment, clearing the way for the first approval of a scientifically engineered animal for human consumption. |
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Rockland homes get farm-fresh foods by horse-drawn carriage
Bangor Daily News - 12/22/2012. By Stephen Betts – Warren: Brian Smith not only delivers locally grown food to local residents, he also brings smiles. The smiles are due largely to the contributions of Don, a 1,900-pound Belgian draft horse that pulls Smith’s carriage throughout Rockland. |
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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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started pullets available by Plowshares Community Farm: "We are producing replacement pullets for our own farm stand egg production, and at the same time raising extra birds for sale..." |
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December 6 - 2013 Maine Food Summit – Maine's Food System: Beginning the conversation |
University of Maine Wells Conference Center, Orono. Keynote speaker: Timothy Griffin, Associate Professor & Director of the Agriculture, Food & Environment Program, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy. Register by Nov. 27 (discounts when registering by Nov. 22). Information and registration.
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December 7 & 8 - From Conflict to Connection: The Fundamentals of Nonviolent Communication
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Fundraiser for the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee. Led by certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer Peggy Smith. This event has a value of $140; as a fundraiser for MOFGA and two other environmental organizations, it is offered to the public by donation. Information and registration (PDF).
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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.
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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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