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
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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Facing the challenge, together: conference takes on farmland access

Farmland access and transfer are among the biggest challenges for new and established farmers across New England. Maine Farmland Trust recently convened a conference to tackle some of the issues
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SLRO: Farming to Fight Food Insecurity

Imagine, if you will, that you come from a hot, dry place. And now you are “resettled” in a place that is green, cold, and wet. You speak a language,
On April 22, 2015, students from UMaine Presque Isle marched across campus to encourage the university to make a committment to buy 20% of their food from local producers by year 2020

UMaine System’s ‘Local’ Requirement in Food Service RFP a Great First Step

This post was originally published on Farm to Institution New England’s blog. Farmers and food advocates still pushing for sustainability and fair labor standards in July 2016 contract On August 31st,
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Maine Food for UMaine System Advocacy

This post was originally published on Farm to Institution New England’s blog. Encourage Chancellor Page to Support Maine Food for UMaine System Recommendations Opportunities like this one don’t come around very

Producer Cooperatives in Maine Food System

Producer cooperatives have had a central role in American agriculture for the past 150 years and are continuing to grow in Maine and the Northeast today.   In a producer cooperative,
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Seafood Throwdown Maine-Style

Hi, my name is Cynthia. I am stationed at the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) headquarters most of the time working on the day to day ins and outs of our

Maine Fare 2015: Good Food and Food for Thought on the Belfast Waterfront

BELFAST — Maine Fare 2015, a unique food festival that celebrates Maine’s bounty, will take place on June 26 and 27th on the Belfast Waterfront. Maine Fare is co-hosted by

Growing our food infrastructure through cooperatives

Cooperatives have long played an essential role in meeting the needs of communities, farmers, and food producers, by bringing together labor, capital, and people’s voices into creating essential goods and