York County Land Owners (YCFN) and Seekers Unite! FarmLink Mixer and Potluck, co-sponsored by YCFN and MFT When: April 11, 2018 • 5:30 pm, potluck dinner; 6:30 pm, meeting Where: Extension office building, 21 Bradeen St., Nasson Heritage Room, Springvale,…
In the final weeks of 2017, MFT worked with farmers to protect six more Maine farm properties with agricultural easements: MFT worked with the farmers at Ecko Farms of Corinna and St. Albans to protect the Cooley Property. The farm property is used…
MFT recently bought a portion of the former Clark Farm, which includes 37 acres of open fields and excellent frontage on Swett Road. The farm will be protected with a conservation easement and sold to a farmer at a reduced…
On September 29th, MFT closed on a purchased easement on the McLaughlin Farm in Wilton. The McLaughlin Farm has operated primarily as a dairy farm for over 100 years. In the more recent past, the dairy infrastructure was sold off…
"If your goal is to protect the farmland and keep it in the family or have it available to someone who wants to farm it, I don't think you can beat Maine Farmland Trust," Dan Curran told us last summer.
Three Rivers Land Trust (3RLT) Maine Farmland Trust (MFT), and the Town of Acton collaborated to protect 243 acres of fields, apple orchards and forestland on Goat Hill in Acton. The orchards have produced apples for the wholesale market for…
Join Maine Farmland Trust and Hardscrabble Farm, 475 Mountain Rd, Arundel to celebrate the growing success of farmland protection in Maine! We'll have tasty farm burgers, salads, and local beer + wine (and non-alcoholic drinks, too!). Listen to folk/bluegrass/old time…
We started this journal three years ago with the gutsy goal of capturing the heart of Maine’s farming and food movement. We knew going in that this was a tall order. There is so much happening, so many stories to share.…
On February 24th, in a simultaneous transaction, Linda and Jerry Covell signed a conservation easement to permanently protect their 70.5 acre farm, and sold the property to young farmers Jeff Benton and Erin Ehlers. The Covells have thought about protecting…
