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PO Box 170
294 Crosby Brook Road
Unity, ME 04988
Phone: 207-568-4142
Fax: 207-568-4141
Email: mofga@mofga.org

Support MOFGA's Maine Heritage Orchard MOFGA's Maine Heritage Orchard will be the home for Maine's apple and pear heritage collection and a site featuring innovative and sustainable orcharding practices. Sales of this beautiful 2014 Heritage Orchard Calendar will help support MOFGA and the orchard. The full-color photos of apples originating in Maine were taken by widely acclaimed Portland photographer Russell French and include Black Oxford, Gray Pearmain and others. $15. Available at MOFGA's Country Store.

You can also support our Maine Heritage Orchard by buying a poster painted by John Bunker and depicting seven heirloom apples. 22.5" x 15.5" – $10. Buy at the MOFGA Store.

Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News

Food security and global warming: Monsanto versus organic
Grist - 1/16/2009.Organic farming beats genetically engineered corn as response to rising global temperatures.

The Real Story on BPA
Fast Company - 1/16/2009.How a handful of consultants used Big Tobacco's tactics to sow doubt about science and hold off regulation of BPA, a chemical in hundreds of products that could be harming an entire generation.

Agriculture sustainability metrics need work: can you help?
TreeHugger - 1/16/2009.The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture is an unlikely gaggle of industry giants, nonprofit organizations, and conservation groups that are working to build a set of metrics in order to guide agriculture into a sustainable future.

Organic Growers Meetings
MOFGA Announcements - 1/15/2009.Join the MOFGA Agricultural Services Staff & MOFGA Certification Services (MCS) Staff for a half-day meeting of Certified Organic Growers. Two sessions offered. January 27 in Unity and February 3 in Freeport.

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