By Leah Penniman Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother and food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist food system for over 20 years. Author of “Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land,” she currently serves as founding co-executive director
By Leah Penniman Leah Penniman is the author of “Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land,” and serves as founding co-executive director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a people-of-color-led project that works toward food and land justice. The first part of Penniman’s 2020 Common Ground Country Fair
2023 Common Ground Country Fair Keynote: Sunday, September 24 By Jaclyn Wypler MOFGA aims to transform the food system by advocating through organic agriculture, highlighting its interdependence with a healthy environment, local food production and thriving communities. I believe that sexuality and mental health are also intricately tied to food systems; queerness and wellness are
By Frances Moore Lappé Let me start by going back … way back. It’s 1969, and I am lost. I had signed up to be a warrior in our “war on poverty,” going door to door in Philadelphia’s poorest neighborhoods organizing for low-income women to get the help they were entitled to. But soon the
By Kathleen McLaughlin When a group of concerned citizens got together in Waldo County back in March 2020, they never thought they’d be starting a permanent channel for their neighbors in need to access free and fresh local produce. The first “Give and Take” sharing tables went in that year. Four years later, there are
By Sonja Heyck-Merlin Moorit Hill Farm’s fiber mill does not invoke the action of a hand spinner, using the treadle to turn the wheel, creating the spinning action the hands need to coax fiber into yarn. Nor is it like the industrial fiber mills of yesteryear commanding an army of workers. Stepping into the tidy,
Frinklepod Farm, known for its commitment to organic farming and community engagement, is thrilled to be sharing their farm in a new partnership, as of 2024, with Stephanie McDonough, founder and director of Farm to Table Kids camp, expanding their already diverse farm offerings. The collaboration aims to provide children with a hands-on experience in
By Sam Brown, Low-Impact Forestry Steering Committee Member I am a Maine land “owner,” according to existing U.S. law. I began buying land when I inherited some money from my family in the early 1970s and have acquired title to more as the years went by. My ancestors were colonial immigrants from Scotland and Ireland,
By John Welton, Certification and Quality Specialist with MOFGA Certification Services Second cup of coffee in hand? Check. Bagged lunch in my backpack? Check. Laptop and phone? Check and check. I have just over an hour to get to Mount Desert Island for a 9 a.m. inspection of a MOFGA-certified organic veggie farm and I
By Holli Cederholm Based in Bridgton, Maine, mixed media artist Maya Kuvaja draws inspiration from “living in the country.” From the surrounding woods, mountains and lakes to her organic garden and window-side bird feeders, there is no shortage of natural subject matter for her artwork. Kuvaja grew up in Saco, Maine, not far from the
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