UNITY The first fair was in 1977 in Litchfield, six years after the founding of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. It was a much smaller event, but it was intent then, just as it is today, on representing efforts to cultivate.
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The Maine Organic Farmer and Gardens Association is the largest state organic organization in the country, with the goal to educate people about organic agriculture, local food production, and what that all means for our state's local economy.
Saturday morning, we packed the children, no longer small, into the car for the trip to the inland Waldo County town of Unity. As we have nearly every late September since they were born. It was time for The Common Ground Country Fair. The Common.
The annual fair remains a popular draw, with about 20,500 fairgoers attending Friday, nearly 25,000 on Saturday and some 18,700 on Sunday, the event's final day for 2023.