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

A Good Time to Renew Your MOFGA Membership

In 2014, MOFGA membership rates will increase slightly. This will be the first membership rate increase since 2004.

MOFGA membership comes with great benefits, including free admission to all three days of the Common Ground Country Fair; our quarterly newspaper; a free classified ad in each issue of the paper; weekly email updates highlighting MOFGA events, legislation and other local, regional news; technical farming and gardening advice; assistance with organic farm certification; and optional affiliation with local chapters.

We appreciate the generosity of MOFGA's supporters and hope you will join or renew at the highest level that fits your budget. We will continue to offer a $20 Seeding membership for students, seniors on fixed incomes and other people who may need the reduced rate. Thank you for any support that you can give. We are happy to have you as a member!

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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News

We’re each carrying our own special concoction of internal toxins
Kennebec Journal - 3/16/2012.

Op-ed by Denis Thoet – Dinosaurs: small brains, big bodies. Extinct. Humans: Large brains, small bodies. Not extinct. Not yet, anyway. Our large brains, however, have created a world bathed in chemicals, engineered foods, plastic environments with poisons that surround us and invade all parts of the natural world – and our own bodies.

Eating down the food chain
Grist - 3/16/2012.

By Douglas Gayeton – Most of us now know that our oceans suffer from the results of overfishing, and many of the species that remain are under increased pressure from global fisheries. As founder of the Monterey Fish Market and adviser to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program, Paul Johnson is concerned with the status of Pacific forage fish like herring and sardines.

The story of the commons: an interview with Annie Leonard
On the Commons - 3/16/2012.

By Jay Walljasper – Annie Leonard is one of the most articulate, effective champions of the commons today. Her webfilm The Story of Stuff has been seen more than 15 million times by viewers. She also adapted it into a book.

Up to 50% of the world’s food is thrown away
Daily Mail [UK] - 3/16/2012.

An estimated 30 percent to 50 percent of the food produced in the world goes uneaten and ends up in landfill. Experts at the Reuters Food and Agriculture Summit unveiled the shocking findings about the world's waste in Chicago this week.

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