John Ikerd. English photo. Farmer-to-Farmer Keynote Speech, November 2, 2008 John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia, is the author of Sustainable Capitalism; A Return to Common Sense; Small Farms are Real Farms; and Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture. His Web site is web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj/. At MOFGA and Cooperative Extension’s Farmer-to-Farmer Conference, keynote […]
By Jean English Much like growing a garden, perseverance pays off for artists who enter the Common Ground Country Fair poster contest. Genny Keller of Whitefield, Maine, started entering the contest in 1992, and her fifth try won! Her design depicts a cawing black crow perched upon a tomato stake, above succulent, tempting, red cherry
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When Kim Jacobs studied comparative religions in college, her undergraduate thesis discussed pilgrimages of various faiths. Subsequently, the idea that “we’re all in a pilgrimage in our own lives, on our own journeys… often comes out in my paintings.” Not surprisingly then, her winning design for the 2006 Common Ground Country Fair depicts a joyful
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Grace Keown of Dixmont, Maine, has won MOFGA’s 2008 Common Ground Country Fair poster contest with her “Hay Barn” design. The clean, striking, colorful image depicts the traditional red barn (like the one at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center) and a hillside of round bales of hay. “Hay Barn” posters, T-shirts, cloth bags and other
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Bee Poster Hums with Harmony Research and timing – and considerable talent – were on Olga Pastuchiv’s side when she submitted the winning poster idea of a bee with honeycomb and clover for this year’s Fair design. Before submitting her idea to MOFGA, she had visited the MOFGA office, looked at past winning designs, and
