Or is spreading that fear the work of the plastics industry and climate change skeptics?
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Green Plate Special: Local food has filled gaps in supply chains disrupted by the pandemic
Experts urge customers not to abandon local producers in favor of cheap, supermarket food once the shutdown ends.
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Maine Gardener: Let a hundred flowers bloom
Planting vegetables lets you eat locally all summer long. But don’t forget the power, and beauty, of flowers.
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The Seaweed Supplier
Atlantic Sea Farms partners with fishermen up and down the Maine coast to produce kelp products sold through stores and restaurant chains.
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The Seed Saver
Radical and self-reliant, subsistence farmer Will Bonsall has preserved tens of thousands of seeds as a way to preserve crop diversity.
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2020 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Healthy Food Champion
Amara Ifeji is a nationally award-winning water quality scientist from Bangor—who just graduated high school.
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A letter from the editor of Source
Things are slowly beginning to open up again, but doubtless you remember the cascading news in the early weeks of the pandemic, much of it summed up by a single word: “canceled.” Like every other organization in America – make that the world – we had to decide early on how to go forward with […]
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Meet the 2020 Russell Libby Agricultural Scholarship winners
A dairy farmer, a future flower farmer and an elementary school teacher who is engaging students in growing vegetables each received $1,500 to help them reach their (organic) goals.
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The Force Field
Frith Farm walks the walk. The little farm in Scarborough produces organic food for its neighbors and green energy for its operations, fostering biodiversity and community.
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The Pedal Pusher
The nonprofit Bicycle Coalition of Maine works to make the state’s roads safer for cyclists and pedestrians. In the pandemic, its work has become more pertinent than ever.