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Everett Ottinger and Molly Crouse

Know Your Organic Producers!

Meet MOFGA certified organic farmers Molly Crouse and Everett Ottinger. Molly owns Nettie Fox Farm (www.nettiefoxfarm.com) in Newburgh, where she has been raising vegetables, herbs, cut flowers and vegetable seedlings. She sells through her CSA, at farmers' markets (the Common Ground Country Fair, Penobscot Valley, Northeast Harbor and Bangor), at the Natural Living Center and from the farm. Molly, a former MOFGA farmer-in-residence, grew up just a few miles from the land where she now farms, went away to work on farms far and near, then returned to Newburgh. She named her farm for her grandmother.

Everett owns Del Rio Farm in Penobscot, where he has been raising vegetables and herbs. He sells to the Blue Hill Coop, Cheryl Wixson's Kitchen, Arborvine restaurant, MOFGA and the Magic Food Bus. The latter delivers vegetables, library books, information about local farms and tips on healthy food preparation. It is a project of Healthy Peninsula, which mobilizes, supports and collaborates with community partners to improve the health of the towns of the Blue Hill peninsula, Deer Isle and Stonington.

Molly and Everett have merged their farms, and Everett will be farming in Newburgh next year. They'll be raising mixed vegetables, chickens and pigs.

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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News

Fertile soil doesn't fall from the sky
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - 12/14/2012. By Tilo Arnhold – Remains of dead bacteria have far greater meaning for soils than previously assumed. Around 40 per cent of the microbial biomass is converted to organic soil components.

What If the World’s Soil Runs Out?
Time Magazine - 12/14/2012.

Some experts fear the world, at its current pace of consumption, is running out of useable topsoil. The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Time, talked to University of Sydney professor John Crawford on the seismic implications soil erosion and degradation may have in the decades to come.

From farm to table, we’re losing tons of food
Grist - 12/14/2012.

By Susie Cagle – Forty percent of the food we grow in the U.S. is wasted somewhere between the farm, the table, and the garbage can. There’s the stuff Americans allow to rot in their fridges, but there’s also tons of food lost on the farm and in the packaging process.

Mercury in seafood: Where does it come from?
Grist - 12/14/2012.

By Twilight Greenaway – Yes, there is water on Mercury, but there is also mercury in the water. Lots of it. In fact, according to a giant new report called “Sources to Seafood: Mercury Pollution in the Marine Environment,” mercury pollution near the ocean’s surface has more than doubled as a result of human activities over the last century.

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