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"Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in."

- Frances Moore Lappé

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Support MOFGA's Maine Heritage Orchard

Sales of our beautiful 2014 Heritage Orchard Calendar will help support MOFGA and the orchard. 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.

Governor LePage Signs Maine's GMO Labeling Bill!

Thanks so much to everyone who worked so hard to help Maine become the second state in the country to require labeling of GMO foods!

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

Physical Address:
294 Crosby Brook Road, Unity, ME

MOFGA's Chainsaw Safety Workshop Level I
Sunday, May 4
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
362 Flat Rd., West Bethel.
$50/members, $60/non-members

Whether you are an aspiring logger, woodlot manager or occasional chainsaw user, this course is invaluable. The chainsaw is an amazingly powerful tool, but without proper training and knowledge it can be a very dangerous tool. Work with our highly skilled instructors for the day and learn to use your chainsaw safely. Participants should bring their protective equipment and a lunch. Water is available. Registration.

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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