Will the fruit take root here? A few farms are experimenting to see what varieties might thrive.
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy Grodinsky has been the food editor at the Portland Press Herald since 2014. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a now-defunct national magazine that was published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle, seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York, and a (magical) year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” (2017) and “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” (2008).
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What’s that? A food mill
The time-honored tool works wonders in ways more modern appliances don’t.
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Hard-to-find lingonberries find a place on one Down East farm
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What’s that? A pollinator garden
As honeybees vanish, University of Maine researchers plant a bee buffet at an old town dump.
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Return to writing lands renowned author in New England
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Abigial Smith, community college student
When she was 5 years old, Abigial Smith asked her parents for the present of a pig, of the pet pot-bellied sort. They produced one for her, but things didn’t end well. The tiny pig sickened with tetanus, a common pig malady, and soon died. The heartbroken Smith, who was growing up in Durham, asked […]
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Abigail Karter, high school senior
Abigail Karter grew up on a small hobby farm in Winslow. At least so she says. It doesn’t sound all that hobbylike to us, frankly. The family has more than a dozen beef cattle. There are pigs and goats. They tap trees for maple syrup and “do blueberries,” more than 600 bushes, Karter says. There’s […]