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…
Our friends (and MFT business members!) at Allagash Brewing Company are gearing up for A Week in Maine, an entire week dedicated to celebrating our home state, capped with a grand finale farm dinner at Bumbleroot Organic Farm on August 10th.…
Farms are often the largest remaining blocks of undeveloped land in Maine’s coastal communities, and they often contain significant wildlife habitat. But development pressure in coastal communities is the highest in the state, and farmland and marsh habitat are disappearing…
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…
Join Maine Farmland Trust, Norway Brewing Company, and Pietree Orchard for a taste of what it takes to add Maine-grown fruits to Maine-made beer. Sample beers made with local fruit and learn about the field-to-glass process from the people who grow…
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,…
Dina-Lee Ford walks her land, describing dreams for the future; dreams she's quite literally planting in multiple acres of rich soil she can now call her own. A Master Gardener and disabled veteran who served in the Air Force, Dina-Lee, and her…
photos by Jenny Nelson, text by Sara Trunzo Spring in Maine is sometimes colder and actually involves more “gathering up” than Fall harvest time. This time of year at Veggies For All, we amass our stock of seeds…
(Rockport)--As 2014 wound to a close, three Maine land trusts conducted two land transfers to create one bigger and better preserve. First, the Nature Conservancy in Maine (TNC) transferred its Simonton Corner Quarry Preserve to Coastal Mountains Land Trust. Subsequently,…