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Maine Farmland Trust
97 Main Street
Belfast, Maine 04915
Phone: 207-338-6575
Fax: 207-338-6024
Email: info@mainefarmlandtrust.org
Maine Farmland Trust
97 Main Street
Belfast, Maine 04915
Phone: 207-338-6575
Fax: 207-338-6024
Email: info@mainefarmlandtrust.org
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Check out the NEW
MAINE FARMLINK
WEBSITE!
Maine FarmLink is a farm transfer program that connects prospective farmers seeking farmland with retiring farmers and other farmland owners who wish to see their agricultural lands remain active.
FarmLink is a program of MFT.
visit the new site
www.mainefarmlink.org
Check out the NEW
MAINE FARMLINK
WEBSITE!
Maine FarmLink is a farm transfer program that connects prospective farmers seeking farmland with retiring farmers and other farmland owners who wish to see their agricultural lands remain active.
FarmLink is a program of MFT.
visit the new site
www.mainefarmlink.org
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Art, farming communities comes together in exhibit
KENNEBUNK — River Tree Arts and the Maine Farmland Trust present "Agri-CULTURE: A Celebration of Farming in Art and Community" and the "Meet Your Farmer" film series on April 6 in the Irvine Gallery at River Tree Arts.
Maine has long been home to a vibrant art scene and a strong farming tradition. The Agri-CULTURE exhibition brings the two ways of life together. With paintings, photographs and multi-media artwork, the exhibition highlights rural life and the vibrant farming community of Maine, both past and present. Artists include Karrah Kwasnik, photographer of the collection "The Organic Year," and painters Leia Pinnick and Kathleen Perelka, featured artists in the Maine Farmland Trust Gallery. Several local artists will be highlighted, as well.
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 Maine Farmland Trust Gallery Exhibits Photographic Saga About Family Farming
Editor: Brenda Bonneville
Monday, 26 March 2012
“Rural Harvest” Opens on Wednesday, April 4th at 4:30 pm
(Belfast, ME) Photographer Lottie Hedley believes that beauty, inspiration, conflict, determination, and intrigue all exist in our own backyards and deserve our attention. Her drive is to tell local stories which are often overlooked because of their proximity. Rural Harvest is a series of stark and gripping black and white photographs, full of contrast and mood. They document the life and work of the Gerritsen family: Jim and Megan and their four children, Peter, Caleb, Sarah and Amy. The Gerritsens organically farm potatoes and other vegetables for seed on Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, Maine.
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Johnny's Seeds donates easement to farm trust
ALBION -- Benton Field has been forever preserved as a place to grow pumpkins, squash, peppers and tomatoes.
Johnny's Selected Seeds donated a 29-acre agricultural conservation easement to Maine Farmland Trust at a ceremony Tuesday morning at Johnny's Research Farm on Foss Hill Road.
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Johnny’s Selected Seeds gives easement to Maine Farmland Trust
By Alex Barber, BDN Staff
ALBION, Maine — Johnny’s Selected Seeds of Winslow has given an agricultural conservation easement to the Maine Farmland Trust on a 29-acre parcel of land the company owns in Benton.
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Forever Farms exhibit at Maine Farmland Trust Gallery
Belfast – This month through March, starting February 24th, Maine Farmland Trust Gallery will be showcasing the Trust’s recently launched Forever Farms program through an exhibit of farm photographs by Lily Piel – a Maine-based photographer with a great eye for detail, who is able to find the unique in the rituals of everyday.
"The Forever Farm Program celebrates the growing success of farmland protection efforts in Maine and recognizes the farms that are part of this movement. This includes the fact that more and more farmland owners see the value of permanently protecting their land and their legacy," says John Piotti, executive director of Maine Farmland Trust.
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Come Spring Farm in Union permanently conserved
Union — Herbert Harriman has lived on Come Spring Farm since the 1960s, raising his family, managing the farmland and milling lumber. The old farmhouse, while not the original Come Spring Farm dating back to the late 1800s, sits up on a hill on Come Spring Lane and looks out across 14 acres of rolling fields onto Round Pond in the center of Union. On Dec. 21, 2011, Harriman signed a conservation easement with the Georges River Land Trust that will allow the land to remain as farmland forever.
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Cultivating Maine's
Agricultural Future
New Guide for Towns Looking to Encourage Local Farming
For an online copy of the guide:
LinkClick.aspx
Cultivating Maine's
Agricultural Future
New Guide for Towns Looking to Encourage Local Farming
For an online copy of the guide:
LinkClick.aspx
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FROM THE LAND
maine farms at work
To view a list of Bookstores
around the state of Maine
which offer this book for sale,
Click here
FROM THE LAND
maine farms at work
To view a list of Bookstores
around the state of Maine
which offer this book for sale,
Click here
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