Letting go of a sweet tradition
Maine Sunday Telegram - 3/22/2009.By Bill Nemitz – Sitting in their kitchen over cups of hot tea Friday morning, John and Ramona Snell said it wasn't an easy decision. But after 29 years of tapping tress all over Bar Mills, they've given up their small, 125-gallon-a-year maple sugar operation to focus more fully on their 8-acre orchard and 30-acre vegetable farm. |
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Farmers wary of requiring animal IDs
Kennebec Journal - 3/21/2009.By Craig Crosby – Maine farmers are keeping an eye on Washington these days as Congress is reviving efforts for a mandatory national animal identification system. |
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Fragrant sweet peas are garden’s gift
Bangor Daily News - 3/21/2009.By Reeser Manley – In the beginning, nearly a decade ago, sweet peas came as summer gifts from Marjorie’s garden, small vases of nodding, slender-stemmed flowers, bouquets of red, pink, purple and white. I would set them in a sunny window of the room where I worked and enjoy the smell of orange blossoms and honey for days. |
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Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?
New York Times - 3/21/2009.By Andrew Martin – As tens of thousands of people recently strolled among booths of the nation’s largest organic and natural foods show here, munching on fair-trade chocolate and sipping organic wine, a few dozen pioneers of the industry sneaked off to an out-of-the-way conference room. |
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