Farmer extends strawberry season into fall
Lewiston Sun Journal - 10/3/2011. By Ann Bryant – Farmington: While nature has started its autumn coloring of the trees, David Pike's strawberry fields are just as colorful. Nearly 50 quarts of fresh strawberries were picked Friday and 100 quarts on Thursday from beds of day neutral plants. Quarts of fresh strawberries from Pike's Strawberries are available in a couple of local stores, he said. |
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Battle escalates against genetically modified crops
Inter Press Service - 10/2/2011. By Kanya D'Almeida – Washington: Home to a fast-growing network of farmers' markets, cooperatives and organic farms, but also the breeding ground for mammoth for-profit corporations that now hold patents to over 50 percent of the world's seeds, the United States is weathering a battle between Big Agro and a ripening movement for food justice and security. |
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Maine’s only lavender farm thrives in St. George Valley
Bangor Daily News - 10/1/2011. By Aislinn Sarnacki – The sweet, bold scent of lavender filled our lungs as we stepped inside the high tunnel, a wood- and metal-framed outbuilding covered with a foggy greenhouse plastic. While most Maine farmers participating in the high tunnel study (conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture) were growing tomatoes and cucumbers, the Costigan family in Appleton had planted 300 French lavender plugs. |
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Vendors fight city ban on raw milk at farmers markets
Portland Press Herald - 10/1/2011.By Jason Singer – Portland: About a dozen farmers and raw-milk drinkers showed up unexpectedly this week at a meeting of the City Council's Health and Recreation Committee, frustrated by a recent crackdown on people selling raw milk at farmers markets. Vendors have been selling it for some time, but sales at farmers markets aren't allowed under city code. |
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