MFT’s Farm Fresh Rewards program provides additional money for low-income shoppers to purchase more locally-grown fruits and vegetables at participating stores. Farm Fresh Rewards serves everyone: low-income shoppers can buy more locally-produced food; Maine farmers gain new customers; and more…
This month, MFT is hitting the road to visit Maine farms! There’s no better way to celebrate our 20th Anniversary than with an epic road trip and listening tour that will bring us straight to the fields and barns of the…
MFT recently awarded 25 Blue Hill Peninsula Community Food grants, totaling $61,613. Projects included starting new community gardens, equipment and infrastructure for farm and food businesses, and purchasing of local food for food security programs for students and summer campers.…
MFT and Unity Barn Raisers (UBR) are happy to announce that Veggies For All (VFA) has returned to its roots. As of this spring, VFA is once again a project under Unity Barn Raisers. VFA was founded in 2007 by…
This spring, MFT awarded its seventh implementation grant to help Emery Farm scale up their business. The farm participated in the 201 track of MFT’s Farming for Wholesale program and spent two years working with business advisors to research and define their…
Nutrition incentive programs in Maine like MFT’s Farm Fresh Rewards and Maine Federation of Farmers’ Market’s Maine Harvest Bucks are a win for both low-income shoppers and farmers. LD 920 would provide state funding for these programs to avoid funding gaps, leverage more federal dollars, and…
Last week, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the USDA released the 2017 Census of Agriculture. The Census is conducted every five years, and provides national, state, and county-level agricultural data that informs many federal farm programs, policies, and…
by Rebecca Goldfine Photographs by Sean Alonzo Harris
This year, we are celebrating 20 years of growing the future for farming in Maine! Throughout the year we'll be releasing a series of six videos that illustrate our history, our work, and where we're headed. So far, we've released…
This June, we’re hitting the road to visit Maine farms! There’s no better way to celebrate our 20th Anniversary than with an epic road trip and listening tour that will bring us straight to the fields and barns of the…