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The summer issue of MOFGA’s publication, The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener, is now available. In it, you’ll find tips for the farm, garden and homestead. Topics include bundle dyeing with plant materials, overwintering peas as a cover crop and for spring harvests, building a cold frame, and record-keeping on the farm. Plus, our annual Daytripping list highlights farms

At farm and garden tours this summer, learn about seed saving, organic vegetable gardening, no-till practices, permaculture, growing fruit trees organically, raising rabbits, building a stone wall, and much more. For more farms to visit this summer, please check the event calendar on MOFGA’s website, where you’ll find Farmer to Farmer in the Field events,

Everyone is invited to MOFGA’s main campus in Unity on Saturday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to share skills, food and fun. This free, family-friendly event returns after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic and features a wide variety of hands-on activities.  Since 2012, Farm & Homestead Day has been

In January 2023, MOFGA lost one of our barns to a destructive fire. Over the last few months, we have worked to file insurance claims, purchase materials and prepare to rebuild the structure. We now have several volunteer workdays scheduled. Come join the community of volunteers helping us rebuild! Please dress appropriately for outside work, including

Want to buy a handsome, Maine-made bowl and support the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee’s work — all for just $20 ($45 maximum for families)? Come to the committee’s 19th Empty Bowl Supper on Saturday, June 10, at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine. The committee is excited to host this event once again

When the ubiquity of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl) chemical contamination of farmland in Maine made headlines last winter, MOFGA jumped into action. Partnering with the Maine Farmland Trust (MFT), MOFGA created the PFAS Emergency Relief Fund and provided much needed financial assistance to farmers irrevocably impacted by PFAS contamination, developed farmer programs to offer technical

Tables of seeds and pieces of scionwood for grafting fruit trees stretch from one end of MOFGA’s Exhibition Hall to the other, and a hum of excitement fills the air. For gardeners and orchardists, it’s the most wonderful flea market in the world. Not only that — almost everything is free! MOFGA’s annual Seed Swap & Scion Exchange is celebrating

In January, one of the barns at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center burned down. Thankfully, no one was injured in the fire. However, the building and all of the equipment stored in it were completely destroyed. We are planning to rebuild the barn before the 2023 Common Ground Country Fair and replace all of the

MOFGA’s vision for an organic future is to create a healthy and fair food system for all. Over the past 50 years, MOFGA has built a thriving organic farming community and changed the food landscape of Maine. Today, Maine is home to more than 500 certified organic producers and thousands more farmers, homesteaders and gardeners

With the many challenges continuing to confront organic farmers and producers, namely PFAS chemical contamination and the ongoing dairy crisis, the MOFGA Certification Services (MCS) team started the 2022 season with a lot of uncertainty. We once again saw a resilient local food system in action, with the state and many partners, including MOFGA, providing