Maine Farmland Trust invites farmers, landowners to 2nd Annual Farmland Access Conference Maine Farmland Trust will convene the second annual Farmland Access Conference on December 5, 2016 at the Augusta Civic Center in Augusta, Maine. The day-long conference will delve…
Our Land in Transition series shines a light on the hundreds of thousands of acres of Maine farmland that will be changing hands within the next decade. The future of farming in Maine depends on what happens to that land. We often share stories…
Over 91 acres of farmland in Sabattus will remain farmland far into the future. On March 31, farmer Dan Curran protected his farm with a conservation easement, ensuring that the land will be not be developed, and that it will…
“I remember driving past as a little girl and thinking, what a beautiful house,” Erin Bennett-Wade reminisced, speaking of her new home. She and her husband Jason Wade bought the house in conjunction with the protection of the surrounding land,…
At Springdale Farm in Waldo, 92-year-old Lois Whitcomb is trying to create a future for the farm she purchased with her late husband, Colby, in 1951. At 488 acres, this large, protected farm property is the result of multiple land purchases…
By Mechele Cooper mcooper@centralmaine.com Staff Writer BELGRADE -- Roger and Dawn Bickford had always hoped that their 120-acre farm, which had been with the family for more than a century, would remain intact. It remained a dairy farm until 1989,…