Liberation Farms is a co-operative farm managed by the Somali Bantu Community Association in Lewiston. After years in operation, they have finally found a permanent home in Wales.
2021
The Maine Millennial: The outdoors is there for everyone
If you pay attention, a nondescript patch of woods can become the most beautiful place on earth.
2021 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Healthy Food Champion
The Eastern Woodland Rematriation Collective connects food producers, distributors and consumers to create an Indigenous-controlled agricultural economy.
Another View: Second home fee would be counter productive
Maine will lose its ‘best customers’ if it charges them more for not using their property.
Read about the three 2021 recipients of MOFGA’s Russell Libby Scholarships
The face of farming in Maine: Three young women cherish the soil, their state and the planet.
Tom Klak: Rescue mission to save the American chestnut
The University of New England professor is working in the lab, woodlots and communities to try to develop a blight-resistant American chestnut tree.
Art review: Hilary Irons imbues plants with spirit and symbolism
‘Orb Weaver’ is on view at Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland.
Letter to the Editor: Young people, put your masks on
I’ve spent many years analyzing numbers, examining reasons for market changes. I have been following the CDC’s information regarding the breakdown of COVID-19 by age for a while. For quite some time, approximately 35 percent of COVID cases detected in Mainers have been in people under 30 years old. Recently, we began hearing, both locally […]
Jim Fossel: Maine doesn’t need open primaries
A bill would make it easier for unenrolled voters to participate in primaries, but it’s already easy enough.
How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
Among other legislation, the House agreed to the Senate amendment to the Medicare Sequester Act to exempt Medicare from pay-as-you-go budget limits in the most recent COVID-19 stimulus spending law.