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Fran Willey Clemetson
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Maine Food Independence Day, Menu and Recipes
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Melissa White Pillsbury, MOFGA's Organic Marketing Coordinator Jul 1.
Local Frozen/Canned Foods
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MEREDITH GOAD story in today's PPH:
A Fourth of July supper of salmon and peas is a Maine tradition that was spawned a century and a half ago.
Upbeat Local Food Movie in Belfast to be Introduced by Russell Libby at Belfast Free Library
March 24, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Russell Libby, Executive Director of Maine Organic Farmer's and Gardener's Association will give an introduction to the movie Tableland which will be showing at the Belfast Free Library on Tuesday, March 24th at 6:30 pm. The public is invited to t...
The International Movement for Food Sovereignty: A Discussion and Slide Show at Belfast Free Library
March 10, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Join Logan Perkins of Food For Maine's Future for a slide show and discussion on Food Sovereignty. La Via Campesina is an international peasants and subsistence farmers movement for food sovereignty, fair trade and peasants rights. Hear about this...
Profile Information
- Where in Maine do you live and eat?
- Belfast
- What issues are you and/or your group interested or expert in?
- farmland protection, organics, health and nutrition, food justice, farm to school, school gardens, home gardens, community gardens, hunger and local foods access, farm to institution, farm to restaurant, CSAs, farmers' markets, local foods marketing and distribution, food coops, GM-free seeds and genetics
- Are you a food producer? If so, what types of food do you produce?
- vegetables, apples, berry fruit, eggs, meats
- If you produce foods of some sort, please choose one of the following:
- I produce foods only for my own and my family's consumption
- Other info about Me (please mention any food, fishing, agriculture, or community groups you are affiliated with):
- I am the Education Coordinator for the Belfast Co-op. The Belfast Co-op hosts a November and a March Eat Local Challenge.
I also have a small homestead with goats, chickens, ducks and a big garden.
- Website (if any):
- http://www.belfast.coop
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Here is a link to the Maine Food Policy Council at the Dept of Ag.
I went to one of their meetings and it was really interesting.
My question, though. is whether there has been any thought of forming a Public Food Policy Council, one not tied to...
In light of climate change and peak oil, more of us might be having these discussions...since our current methods of food production assume a certain a) accessibility to fossil fuel inputs and b) a certain "reliability" of weather patterns and con...
2nd Annual Maine Farmers' Market Convention at The Hutchinson Center
January 29, 2010 to January 30, 2010
MFMC 2 - Save the Date.pdf
Thanks for posting Laura. What's the best way for Portland people to support this? If we subscribe could we get our shrimp through Crown of Maine delivery (to the buying clubs?) perhaps?
All things Mead and generally Maine.
My absolute favorites are Foraging New England by Tom Seymour (of Belfast):
http://books.google.com/books?id=Lre_ox0daocC&dq=tom+seymour+maine+forage&source=gbs_navlinks_s
And The Neighborhood Forager:
http://www.librarything.com/work/2217859
mmm...
10th Anniversary of Maine Farmland Trust at Frontier Cafe
November 16, 2009 from 5pm to 9pm
10 YEARS OF FARMLAND PRESERVATION
We invite you to celebrate with us!
5-7 PM - RECEPTION
with farm-fresh food, Maine-brewed beer and local wines, good company, fun music, a short presentation by John Piotti, and a silent auction of fine Maine ar...
Lovely team...
Hi Marjolaine,
I've found The Forager's Harvest by Samuel Thayer to be a great resource. It's not specific to Maine, but rather tries to include plants that are fairly ubiquitous.
Arthur Haines is an instructor with Maine Primitive Skills School...
We have about 60 delicious whole chickens available. They are 4.50/ lb. all are frozen and between 5 - 7.5 lbs. These are a pasture breed called Le Belle Rouge that are excellent foragers. Our family of 5 gets three meals from one bird! Delivery t...
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Wild mushroom book signing by David Spahr in Rockport ME at Farmer's Fare
November 12, 2009 from 4pm to 6pm
David Spahr Book Signing/Slide Show/Talk
"Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada"
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