"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
- Walt Whitman
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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.
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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!
Read the full press release.
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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
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Christine Bolton-Pistole of
Gryffon Ridge Spice Merchants
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Know Your Organic Producers!
Meet Christine Bolton-Pistole of Gryffon Ridge Spice Merchants from Dresden, Maine.
Gryffon Ridge, a MOFGA certified organic spice merchant, offers a variety of organic herbs, spices and culinary blends. Christine sets up shop at the Brunswick Winter Market, Crystal Springs Farmers’ Market in the summer and at MOFGA's Common Ground Country Fair in September. Gryffon Ridge Spices are also sold at numerous stores, including Royal River Natural Foods and Rosemont Markets. Check out the complete line of products.
Please support MOFGA certified organic farmers and producers!
Search for local certified-organic food on MOFGA.net
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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
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Super duper?
Portland Press Herald - 7/8/2009. By Meredith Goad – Remember when pomegranates seemed really exotic? Now, thanks to their purported health benefits, they are in everything from iced coffee to martinis. And there are scores of other fruits – some familiar, some unpronounceable – joining pomegranate on the shelves. Acai is everywhere, as are goji berries [see photo], noni, mangosteen, blueberries, cranberries and other so-called "super fruits" that contain compounds called antioxidants that may help fight against heart disease, cancer, arthritis and other diseases. |
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Monsanto’s man Taylor returns to FDA in food-czar role
Grist - 7/8/2009.By Tom Philpott – In a Tuesday afternoon press release, the FDA announced that Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto executive, had joined the agency as “senior advisor to the commissioner.” If the title is vague, the portfolio (pasted from the press release) is substantial – a kind of food czar of the Food and Drug Administration. |
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From farm to pharma: how animals ended up living confinement feedlots guzzling antibiotics
Alternet - 7/6/2009.By Will Allen – We are now living in a post fast-food-awareness reality, riding on the wake of Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser's books (who rode on the wake of Wendell Berry), films like Food, Inc., renegade farmer heros like Joel Salatin and Eliot Coleman, and the ever-increasing popularity of urban gardening and locavores. But awareness, like anything, has its dark side. Perhaps the hardest thing we post fast-food-aware people face now, is actually doing something – apart from reading the book and watching the movie, that is. |
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Field-to-plate: Vt. college students try farming
Boston Globe - 7/6/2009. By Lisa Rathke, Associated Press – POULTNEY, Vt.—Devin Lyons typically starts his days this summer cooking breakfast with fresh eggs from the farm's chicken coop. Then, depending on the weather, he and a dozen other college students might cut hay in the field using a team of oxen, turn compost or weed vegetable beds. While other college students are in stuffy classrooms, about a dozen are earning credit tending a Vermont farm. For 13 weeks, 12 credits and about $12,500, the Green Mountain College students plow fields with oxen or horses, milk cows, weed crops and grow and make their own food, part of an intensive course in sustainable agriculture using the least amount of fossil fuels. |
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Check out MOFGA's
online community!
Create your own profile website
List products and services that you offer
Post classified ads
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Help Wanted by Island Farm: "Private Island Farm located in Downeast Maine. Practicing organic gardening methods, dairy processing and pasture raised meat..." |
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Peach trees available by Plowshares Community Farm: "We have a large order of peach trees (six yellow freestone varieties) coming, 3/8-1/2" caliper (better than larger caliper fo..." |
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Portland CSA Fair, Sunday April 27!!! by Black Kettle Farm: "Meet MOFGA farmers that deliver to the Portland area and learn more about different CSA options this season! Sunday, April 2..." |
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Portland CSA Fair, Sunday April 27!!! by Black Kettle Farm: "It is prime time to secure your veggies for the season! Check out the Portland CSA Fair, this Sunday, April 27th, at Local S..." |
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Medicine Plants & The Healing Process by avenabotanicals: "Medicine Plants & The Healing Process | Deepening our Knowledge and Connection to the Plant World With Deb Soule and Jilli..." |
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April 26 - Empty Bowl Supper Fundraiser
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6 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Miller St., Belfast. Join MOFGA's El Salvador Sistering Committee for its annual Empty Bowl Supper fundraiser. For just $15 ($35 maximum for families; tickets at the door), attendees enjoy delicious soups, breads and desserts, get to see friends, and take home a beautiful bowl, handcrafted and donated by a Maine potter.
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April 30 - Waldo Organic Growers Program: Bats
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Speaker Annie Kassler of Bat Conservation will show slides and video. Potluck: Please bring a plate, silverware and a dish to share. MOFGA library, Unity. 6:00 p.m.
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May 2 - MOFGA’s Common Ground radio show |
10 to 11 a.m., WERU, 89.9 and 99.9 FM and weru.org |
May 2 - Ripe For Discussion – From Seed to Fruition: A Farm-To-Table Series from MOFGA and the Portland Museum of Art |
Friday, 5:30 p.m., 7 Congress St., Portland. Meet & Greet with Ted Quaday, MOFGA’s new Executive Director. MOFGA and its mission – brief talk and slide show, followed by a light reception. PMA and MOFGA members free! Museum information: 775-6148; www.portlandmuseum.org/ |
May 4 - MOFGA's Chainsaw Safety Workshop |
Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., $50/members, $60/non-members. Details and registration. |
May 4 - Maine Highlands MOFGA Chapter Celebration and Kick-Off |
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come by the East Sangerville Grange to help celebrate the official start of the Maine Highlands MOFGA chapter. This is a free event and open to all – you do not have to be a MOFGA member to attend! We'll share potluck nibbles and snacks, ideas about possible chapter activities, and maybe some seeds if you've got some you'd like to swap. Bring your family, bring a friend! The ESG is located on East Sangerville Rd. For directions go to www.grange.org/eastsangervilleme177/. Don't try to use your GPS or you'll end up in the woods! |
May 10 - Memorial for Joe Dupere at MOFGA
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1 p.m., 294 Crosby Brook Rd., Unity. Details on Facebook and the website of Sunnywood Farm. Profile page on MOFGA.org. |
May 10 - Ripe For Discussion – From Seed to Fruition: Maine's Heritage Orchard: A Farm-To-Table Series from MOFGA and the Portland Museum of Art |
Saturday, 2 p.m., 7 Congress St., Portland. A program on preserving Maine’s heritage apples with apple expert John Bunker, including information on the new Maine Heritage Orchard, MOFGA’s 10-acre terraced orchard in the making, protecting over 500 apple and pear varieties traditionally grown on small Maine farms. PMA and MOFGA members free! Museum information: 775-6148; www.portlandmuseum.org/ |
May 17-18 - Introduction to Chainsaw Safety for Women
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Hidden Valley Nature Center, Jefferson. Cosponsored by MOFGA. This day-and-a-half-long hands-on training will give women of all experience levels the confidence and knowledge to safely operate a chainsaw. Students will learn about safety gear, practice basic techniques, learn about maintenance and practice tree felling. This course is well suited to homeowners, resource professionals, trail volunteers, farmers and anyone who might use a chainsaw. Information: hvnc.org, info@hvnc.org |
May 18 - Ripe For Discussion – Healthy Soil, Healthy Foods: A Farm-To-Table Series from MOFGA and the Portland Museum of Art |
Sunday, 2 p.m., 7 Congress St., Portland. Screening of Symphony of the Soil, a film by Deborah Koons Garcia, followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker, Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch and local restaurateur Leslie Oster of Aurora Provisions. PMA and MOFGA members free! Museum information: 775-6148; www.portlandmuseum.org/ |
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