Dispatches from the Farm
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Joining a CSA is a Vote for Maine’s Future
Food is more than just fuel; it is the fabric that holds a community together. When you stand in the grocery store aisle looking at a tomato shipped from three thousand miles away, it’s easy to feel disconnected.
We want to change that.
Trump leaves Maine farms out in the cold
With the start of planting season just six weeks away, President Trump is cutting the legs out from under farmers all over the state. While we’re planting seedlings for the spring, many small farmers are wondering if the federal government will default on signed contracts or eliminate funding for critical farm infrastructure.
Review: Farming While Black
Leah Penniman’s Farming While Black is a groundbreaking contribution to the fight for social justice in the United States. Part political manifesto, part how-to guide for new Black and Brown farmers, part meditation on the meaning of solidarity, Penniman shines a light on two central questions in American history: land and labor.
MOFGA and the Organic Farming Revolution
Family farms hold a special place in American history as symbols of self-reliance and wellsprings of democratic values from the Populists to Dust Bowl refugees to Back to the Landers to Farm Aid to a COVID-driven explosion of support for local agriculture. However, there’s also a long-running tendency to erase the settler-colonial reality of American farming. Maine, after all, is Abenaki land.
Farming for a Better World
Global climate change is tightening its grip on Maine. It’s set to be 40 degrees or more and pouring rain on Wednesday, January 5, from Kittery to Farmington. I don’t know about you, but I find reaching for my umbrella after Christmas depressing.