August 13, 2018

Sarah Alexander is the new executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. MOFGA began a search and hiring process late last year when former executive director Ted Quaday announced plans to retire.

August 2018 – By Joyce Kryszak, Down East – It’s tradition in Washington County to wave to other motorists as they pass by, and Down Easters say there’s a different wave for every town. Ed Hennessey, of Whitneyville, raises his broad palm sideways to greet folks as we make our way past miles of wild blueberry barrens in his gray GMC pick-up on an equally gray morning. Soon, we see a truck carrying Hennessey’s son, Mike, who extends the same open-palm wave.

August 2018 – By Willy Blackmore, Down East – By Some of Maine’s liveliest spots for dinner and drinks these days are down on the farm — and for some Maine farmers, the gastronomic “barn social” is a key part of a new agrarian model.

July 27, 2018 – By Anthony Brino, The County – The Southern Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District is seeing strong momentum among potato farms using cover crops for both building soil health and preventing soil erosion, according to Executive Director Angela Wotton.

July 27, 2018 – By Joshua James Parfitt, Ensia - “Is seaweed a vegetable?” a wide-eyed child asks a tall man chopping kelp at a “Taste the Nature” market in the Zuiderpark city farm in The Hague.

July 27, 2018 – By Chris McKinnon, CBS Boston – When it comes to healthy eating, many nutritionists will tell you that eggs have gotten a bad rap due to high levels of fat and cholesterol. But “eggs are a fabulous, nutrient-dense food,” says Boston University Nutritionist Joan Salge-Blake.

July 27, 2018 – WAGM – Markets are based on supply and demand, but when your product is produced daily, it can affect prices. Vaughn Chase, owner of Chase's Organic Dairy Farm in Mapleton, says for over two years now farmers have dealt with a huge surplus of milk.

July 27, 2018 – Mainebiz – A three-barrel brewhouse, The Pour Farm, has opened for business in Union, and the owner said that by next year, he hopes to be growing hops and botanicals for the beer in an adjacent field.

July 27, 2018 – By Julia Bayly, Bangor Daily News – For honey bees, wax is one of the building blocks of life — literally.

July 26, 2018 – By Colin Ellis, Kennebec Journal – Standing before a crowded Moody Chapel on what she described as a “deliciously moist morning,” Sarah Owens had a message for the crowd gathered at Kennebec Valley Community College’s Hinckley campus: Bread can bring us together.