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2013 Organic Maine!

Our complete directory of all MOFGA-certified organic farms, foods and products.

Includes directory of Maine farmers' markets.

Free copies are available at natural food stores and other venues throughout Maine, and from the MOFGA Office. Call 207-568-4142 or email mofga@mofga.org.

Download a PDF of our directory - 4.7MB

Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News

Organic corn outperforms many GM varieties in Minnesota trials
Organic Consumers - 4/5/2010.By Ken Roseboro – Results from the Minnesota State Corn Trials show that organic corn seed from Blue River Hybrids produced better yields than many genetically modified varieties. Blue River Hybrids entered six of its hybrids in the trials. "The Minnesota Crop Improvement Association suggested to me that Minnesota farmers would be interested in seeing our hybrids in state trials," said Maury Johnson, president of Blue River Hybrids, based in Ames, Iowa.

Local milk venture backers confident
Bangor Daily News - 4/5/2010.By Sharon Kiley Mack – Edmunds, Maine: Every morning and every night, Aaron Bell milks his cows at his ninth-generation family farm on the shore of Dennys Bay. The milk is organically produced and sold to local stores through farmers markets and grass-roots buying clubs. But without MOOMilk, a Maine-based, farmer-owned marketing venture, Bell wouldn't have a market large enough to sustain his dairy herd.

Food industry duped us into ‘embracing junk food’
Kennebec Journal - 4/5/2010.Letter to the Editor by Sue Melcher – Why are we obese? For the past few decades, our culture has disparaged real food. People who ate pine nuts, granola or wheat germ were dismissed as hippies or health nuts; wheat grass shakes and carrot juice smoothies were condemned as weird amalgams only pretentious, self-absorbed radicals would ingest.

On job creation – local fruits and vegetables vs. corn and soybeans
Common Dreams - 4/4/2010.By Ben Lilliston – It turns out that foods that are better for you may also be better for farmers and local job creation. A new study by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University found that expanding fruit and vegetable production in the upper Midwest could bring significantly more economic benefits than conventional corn and soybean production on the same acreage.

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