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Profile Information
- Where in Maine do you live and eat?
- Lewiston
- What issues are you and/or your group interested or expert in?
- health and nutrition, food justice, community gardens, hunger and local foods access, farmers' markets
- Are you a food producer? If so, what types of food do you produce?
- vegetables
- If you produce foods of some sort, please choose one of the following:
- I produce foods for sale to others
- If you produce foods for sale, where or how can Mainers buy them?
- The Lewiston Farmer's Market - Tuesdays July-October in Kennedy Park
- Other info about Me (please mention any food, fishing, agriculture, or community groups you are affiliated with):
- Lots to Gardens is a youth and community driven program located in Lewiston, Maine that uses sustainable urban agriculture to challenge the cycles of hunger in our community by enabling people to produce, access and prepare fresh, nutritious food for themselves and their community. Started in 1999, we have built fifteen gardens and green spaces in four diverse neighborhoods of low-income, improving health, developing useful skills and self-reliance that leads to positive community-wide change.
- Website (if any):
- http://www.lotstogardens.org
- Website 2 (if any):
- http://www.myspace.com/lotstogardens
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USDA meats for sale: Beef, Veal, Pork & Lamb . Grass fed, all-natural - no hormones, antibotics or steroids. We sell by individual cuts or in variety boxed specials. Call us 207-938-3836 or check out our website to check on availability & prices.
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