After “The Summer That Never Was,” September sure has been producing a lot of nice, hot, summery days. Make the most of them with these three Maine activities: Pick Your Own Flowers at Half Hitch Farm Calyx Farm, in Morrill, is an organic MOFGA-.
MORRILL — Every Wednesday evening this summer, Half Hitch Flowers, a local flower project located at Calyx Farm in Morrill, welcomes visitors to pick their own flowers. From 5 to
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Survey says: Organic farmers making most of pandemic
Despite the challenges posed by COVID-19, farmers were able to keep their operations going as the process of farming itself didn t change at all.
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Mary Perry drives her two-horse sleigh along the trails Friday at Winterberry Farm in Belgrade. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
BELGRADE The cadence of life at Winterberry Farm remains virtually unchanged amid the coronavirus pandemic.
More than two decades ago as a single mother, Mary Perry dedicated her life to farming, and that passion remains to this day. Her 40-acre farmstead, which she and her three children tend to, is one of Maine’s many organic farms that have felt both the good and bad reverberations of the last 10 pandemic-dominated months.
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Bowdoinham launches farmland matchmaking website
If Bowdoinham landowners want to make their property available for farming, they can set up their own property listing through the website, where people who want to start farming can see what land they might be able to get a start on.
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Bowdoinham has a new matchmaking website designed to link landowners with aspiring farmers to help preserve the town’s agricultural character.
Launched earlier this month by the Bowdoinham Community Development Initiative, the website is part of a larger Farmland Inventory Project aimed at mapping available farmland in town and finding landowners interested in opening their land to farming.