After Winslow successfully launched a similar program, Manchester, Winthrop and Monmouth are looking for ways to lower taxes or protect farmland so it doesn’t get developed.
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Preserve the bounty of your harvest so you can eat from your garden all winter long
A guide to storing winter squash, parsnips, dried beans and more, no refrigerator or freezer needed.
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A honey of a food wrap
Holly Hardwick’s beeswax wrap protects food and leftovers without using petroleum products.
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Camassia is a bulb you can eat as well as plant
If you want to eat camassia, you must be patient. The bulbs have to be cooked at low temperatures for at least 12 hours, or they cause painful gas
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Portland-area writer Kathryn Miles can shake up a dinner conversation
Hosts fear that her subject matter – doom and gloom about natural disasters – makes her a dinner party downer.
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A carnivore tries to figure out how to cut down on her meat consumption
She’s got one word for you: shanks.
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New book encourages you to record your own observations of nature
‘The Naturalist’s Notebook’ by two Maine scientist/naturalists is filled with practical guidance for systematic study.
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You’re the boss when greening your home office
Here’s how to conserve energy, paper and fuel, then recycle your equipment when its useful life is done.
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Lawmakers propose fix to Maine’s food sovereignty law
So-called ‘face-to-face’ sales of meat would still be allowed, but only if it is processed in a licensed slaughterhouse that meets the requirements of federal food safety laws.
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Infections from backyard chickens rise
Since January, more than 1,100 people have contracted salmonella poisoning from chickens and ducks in 48 states.