"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."
- James Beard
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PO Box 170
294 Crosby Brook Road
Unity, ME 04988
Phone: 207-568-4142
Fax: 207-568-4141
Email: mofga@mofga.org
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Everett Ottinger and Molly Crouse
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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
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The food crisis strikes again
CIP Americas - 10/19/2011. By Esther Vivas – The threat of a new food crisis is already a reality. The price of food began to rise to record levels again, according to the FAO Food Price Index of February, 2011, which does a monthly analysis of global prices of a basic food basket made up of grains, seed oils, dairy products, meat and sugar. The Index came to a new historic maximum, the highest since the FAO began to study food prices in 1990. |
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More wild mushrooms=bounty, danger
Kennebec Journal - 10/19/2011. Portland – The tropical storms that drenched the Northeast this year left an unexpected bounty: Thousands of mushrooms have sprung up on some lawns, and foragers have filled bags with wild ones plucked from the earth, stumps and logs. "It was like a scene from 'Alice and Wonderland,'" said David Fischer, who wrote "Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America." |
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Wild crops abound to harvest, put up as we fall toward winter
Kennebec Journal - 10/19/2011. Op-Ed by George Smith – Warblers arrive in the spring garbed in colorful clothing, but they head back south in the fall dressed in drab colors. There's got to be a message there, but those of us who don't follow the birds south are too busy getting ready for winter to recognize it. |
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Two Warren farms to be preserved forever
Village Soup - 10/18/2011. Warren – Two Warren farms were recently recognized as "Forever Farms" by Maine Farmland Trust. Hatchet Cove Farm and Oyster River Farm are two of many farms across the state being recognized as part of a new program launched this summer by Maine Farmland Trust. |
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Yurt for Sale by Songbird Farm: "16 foot diameter Colorado Yurt Company, features a 4 foot wide plexiglass dome, 4 windows and a door, full reflectic insulati..." |
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Seeking Experienced Farm Manager by The Promised Land Farm: "Seeking experienced farm manager to grow existing successful 30 member "Health CSA" to 150 members for the 2014 season. The f..." |
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January 3, 2014 - MOFGA’s Common Ground radio show
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10 to 11 a.m., on WERU, 89.9 and 99.9 FM and weru.org
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January 7 - MOFGA Annual Membership Meeting
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Maine Agricultural Trades Show, Augusta Civic Center. Hear reports from MOFGA board members, staff and committees; vote on a slate of board members. Q&A period. This is also MOFGA Day at the Trades Show – a full day of presentations and workshops on organic production in Maine. Free. Schedule.
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January 7 to 9 - Maine Agricultural Trades Show |
Augusta Civic Center. Free admission. www.getrealmaine.com
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January 11 - NOFA-Mass Winter Conference
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Saturday, Worcester State University, Worcester, Mass. Early bird registration discount ends Dec. 15. Conference details.
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January 11 - Penobscot County MOFGA Stone Soup Social
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MOFGA members and prospective members in Penobscot County are welcome to a Stone Soup Social at the Bangor Grange, 1192 Ohio St., Bangor. Doors will open at 1 p.m., and a meal will be served around 2:30. Snow date January 25. RSVP: Galen Young, Galen.the.beekeeper@gmail.com, noting how many people you are bringing and what you plan to bring.
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