MFT recently awarded 22 Blue Hill Peninsula Community Food Grants, totaling more than $55,000. The average grant received was just over $2,500. Grants were awarded to projects or programs intended to increase food sustainability and improve the health and well-being…
Students will learn from and work with butchers Elise Miller and Kirk Pincince from Rosemont Market to breakdown and butcher a whole lamb from Stoneheart Farm. Guests will get hands on cutting experience and will get to take home some…
In Southern Maine, farmland is increasingly vulnerable to development pressures. Join us on Wednesday, May 3rd, 6:00 - 8:00 pm at Oxbow, 49 Washington Ave, Portland and learn about Maine Farmland Trust's efforts to ensure farming has a future…
MFT members are people who recognize the importance of protecting farmland and helping farmers thrive. They care about the resiliency of Maine’s rural economy, and the sustainability of our environment. They are farmers, future-farmers, business owners, eaters, conservationists, advocates, policymakers, artists, community-builders, foodies, and people who love Maine. They are people like YOU.
There are so many reasons to join MFT. Hear from a few of our members why they choose to be part of this work.
Original story in: Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, Winter 2016-2017 Newsletter In 2011, Amanda Beal and several others, including Russell Libby (then MOFGA's executive director), began to explore deeply the capacity for New England to produce much more of…
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…
Photo Exhibit and Community Conversation FEEDING MAINE is a traveling photo exhibit documenting some of the many people working for change in our communities across the state, with the hope that these efforts will continue to grow into a resilient…
The Maine Farmland Trust estimates as much as 400,000 acres of farmland will change hands over the next 10 years.
This is another story in our series about young dairy farmers in Maine. In many ways, dairy farms are the cornerstone of Maine’s farming community. Dairy farmers steward large tracts of farmland for feed and forage, while supporting the feed stores,…
Songbird Farm, Unity Adam Nordell and Johanna Davis are typical of many young farmers in Maine: hardworking, smart, and committed to producing good food in a sustainable way. Both Adam and Johanna had worked on various farms before finding each…