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Scouts, their parents and siblings all pitch in to harvest the troop’s three-quarter-acre garden on the John and Cindy Roy potato farm in Fort Kent. Photograph by Julia Bayly for Bangor Daily News.

New UMPI ag concentration comes amid opportunities for fallow land

Re-posted from Bangor Daily News November 28, 2015 by Anthony Brino, Bangor Daily News staff. Biologist Jason Johnston and his colleagues at the University of Maine Presque Isle have long wondered why the
Bands of Abenaki have been growing corn, beans, squash and sunflowers as part of the Seeds of Renewal Project, which works to revive crops that have long been thought to have disappeared. Photo credit: FRED WISEMAN

Project Revives Abenaki Crops, One Seed At A Time

Almost a decade ago, Abenaki scholar and paleoethnobotanist Fred Wiseman started working with Abenaki communities as part of the documentation process for federal tribal recognition. While he was in these
Helen Costello

Network Profile: Helen Costello

Helen “HC” Costello is the Program Manager at the New Hampshire Food Bank, a distributor and supplier to hunger relief agencies serving food insecure community members. In 2014, the New
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Learn More About Farm to Institution New England’s Current Projects

This post was originally published on Farm to Institution New England’s blog. This year, our focus has been on four major projects: our Farm & Sea to Campus Project, the collaborative

Talking Turkey: Talking Wages

On this Thanksgiving, there is indeed much to be grateful for, yet on a day so focused on food and family, it is hard to escape the fact, nor should

International Food Workers Week

International Food Workers Week is held annually the week around Thanksgiving to engage the public about the importance of food workers and to move people to take action in support of

Headlines and Stories

“Meet Food Solutions New England” BostonVoyager, October 30, 2017 “Keeping Maine Edible” Rosie DeQuattro, ZEST Maine, Summer/Fall 2017 “Thinking Big & Bold: How the Kendall Foundation Is Transforming New England’s Food System”
An AquAdvantage salmon behind a non-transgenic Atlantic salmon sibling of the same age. AquaBounty Technologies photo

FDA Rubber Stamps Genetically Modified “Frankenfish”

You may well have heard last week the FDA cleared the path for genetically modified salmon to hit the market after a protracted five-year review. It was a landmark decision that could
A local farmer (left) and a community-owner (right) with Maine Farm & Sea Cooperative. Photos by Nathan Broaddus.

This Maine Co-op’s Trying to Bring Fresh, Local Food to 10,000 College Students

For the past 10 years, University of Maine students have been fed by a giant corporate food distributor. If Maine Farm & Sea Cooperative wins the next contract, they’ll send
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UNH graduate students assess the land footprint of the New England Food Vision

UNH class inspired by the New England Food Vision  Farmers, scientists, and entrepreneurs across New England are constantly innovating new ways to grow food in New England.  Novel approaches to agriculture are vital to developing a

NH Food Alliance Seeks to Ignite Connections and Collaborations Throughout the New Hampshire Food System at their Statewide Gathering

With the interest in local food booming, the NH Food Alliance is answering the call for more connection and collaboration within the Granite State food system. On Tuesday, November 17th the

Cultivating Collective Action: The Ecology of a Statewide Food Network

http://www.extension.umn.edu/family/health-and-nutrition/toolkits-and-resources/healthy-food-access/docs/statewide-food-network-report-2015.pdf
Ray Archuleta, Conservation Agronomist at the USDA Natural Resources and Conservation Service, demonstrates a soil stability test with Vermont farm and food industry leaders at the 2015 Farm to Plate Annual Gathering

Soil regeneration and clean water touted as foundation for healthy food at annual Vermont Farm to Plate Gathering

Farm to Plate Network concludes fourth year of work implementing Vermont’s food system plan by exploring connections between the health of soil and water to the long term productivity and
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