Here’s a memory from Nicolas Lindholm: “I really can’t emphasize enough just how significant the impact of MOFGA has been on my life … That’s as a farmer, a gardener and homesteader, and landowner of both prime farmland, wild blueberry land and forest land, and as an eater and consumer … It’s just been such
This story appeared in the 2021 fall issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener in response to the theme “first frost.” In the fall of 1969, I was 14 and my family had moved to my great-grandfather’s abandoned homestead in Benton, Maine. It was supposed to be temporary. My family had come here after
This story appeared in the 2021 fall issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener in response to the theme “first frost.” Frost, you say? Probably one of my least favorite aspects of fall is this landscape-altering feature. Over the years of gardening on MOFGA’s fairgrounds, I have learned to associate the approach of the
This story appeared in the 2021 fall issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener in response to the theme “first frost.” We scrambled among the rambling, leafy vines, crating squash as fast as we could and trucked it to the tractor shed for storage. We piled the 50-pound crates, totaling about a ton, full
Here’s a memory from Seraphina Erhart: “I was only 10 and not old enough to volunteer yet but I wanted to hang out with my neighbor/childhood friend Jen who was 4 years older, so I would always spend her children’s area shifts with her. Here you can see she had painted my face. A few
Here’s a memory from Renee Page: “This photo, circa 2010, is of my son, Elijah Page, with then First Lady Karen Baldacci. This was part of his 4-H community service project where he was helping to take tickets at the gate earlier in the day, then served as assistant to the First Lady as she
By Sonja Heyck-Merlin In Denver, Colorado, Steve Farr was a full-time computer systems engineer at a university and later at a consulting firm. “Being gone 10 to 12 hours a day, I felt like I hardly knew my children,” he says. “I wanted to do something different, and my wife Kari and I came to
Here’s a memory from Glenn Texter: “I just wanted to let you know that my mother, Beatrice Texter, also a member of MOFGA, sadly passed away on Wednesday, August 18. Although at 83 years old, she volunteered for the first time at the CGCF handing out the MOFGA Fair newspaper at the Rose Gate. She
Here’s a memory from Sue Calhoun: “This is Nathan Stewart, at the Fair in 1988. He was 5 years old and had attended the Fair since he was a baby. (His father, Ken Stewart, was an exhibitor.) At the time, he had a fear of clowns. We took him to have his face painted. Then,
Here’s a memory from Lynn Plumb: “We first attended the fair in 1984. By 1985, Steve was volunteering and soon we all were. Our kids and their cousins grew up at the fair. Each fair is special, but for me the most memorable was 1994. I was coordinating the Maine AIDS Alliance booth in SPA
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