…of the inn owners’ support for farmers. Consortium members still talk about the wonderful accommodations and food! MOFGA worked with Maine Women’s Agricultural Network Beginning Women Farmers and Holistic Management…
…her friend’s young daughter, after watching a debate between Bellows and Sen. Susan Collins, asked, “Mommy, can only women be senators?” “I think a fundamental question that we have to…
…the National Animal Identification System, and/or the food safety bills under consideration in Congress? Do you favor federal WIC (Women, Infants and Children) subsidies that specifically support local farming? Should…
…United States and the foundations for the pervasive racism still inflicted upon Black people in this country today. The role of Black women — and their unique and specific plight…
…have no ideological qualms, but merely pragmatic concerns such as those mentioned above. Here’s one example: Years ago, two women from Portland, Maine, (public works, I believe) attended one of…
By Dani Walczak I bought my first pair of steel-toed boots for MOFGA’s femme, nonbinary, trans and women (FNTW) chainsaw safety course. “You know these are steel-toed,” the cashier said…
…remove the word “squaw” from placenames in Maine. This word is a harmful racial slur that targets Indigenous women. I had already been called this word in a hateful way…
by Alyssa Benjamin I must be stuck in a re-run of Little House on the Prairie. Swirling skirts, bearded men, organic women. I sat paralyzed in an itchy, 1970s tweed…
…other apprentices. Through MOFGA’s new apprenticeship program (started by Chellie Pingree and later run by the Thayers), the couple found two young women from College of the Atlantic in Bar…
…but it has taken awhile to get all the funding and get it together. We’ve got five banks started in a town in Ecuador.” She and two other women on…
