You searched for organic food - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/ Maine Local Community Blog Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:05:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png You searched for organic food - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/ 32 32 Maine Organic Farmers Gardeners Association Farmer To Farmer Conference https://meinmaine.com/2026/02/10/maine-organic-farmers-gardeners-association-farmer-to-farmer-conference/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-organic-farmers-gardeners-association-farmer-to-farmer-conference Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:50:46 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18562 The MOFGA Farmer to Farmer conference held over the past weekend in Portland Maine. MOFGA, the Maine Organic Farmers Gardeners Association offered 30 education sessions at the Portland Holiday Inn By The Bay. Here is the rundown of the 2026 Farmer to Farmer sessions offered. The Farmer to Farmer conference kicked off with a farm […]

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]]> Traveling To Augusta For Maine Agriculture Farm Trade Show https://meinmaine.com/2026/01/15/traveling-to-augusta-for-maine-agriculture-farm-trade-show/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=traveling-to-augusta-for-maine-agriculture-farm-trade-show Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:04:30 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18540 Climbing on Interstate 95 traveling to Augusta for Maine Agriculture Farm Trade show. Yesterday hitched a ride with my partner Meg who is a New Limerick Maine organic farmer up here in Aroostook County. We climbed in the van and headed down I-95 to attend the Augusta Maine 85th agriculture farm trade show. We met, […]

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]]> Picking Potatoes On A Northern Maine Aroostook County Farm https://meinmaine.com/2025/09/23/picking-potatoes-in-a-northern-maine-aroostook-county-farm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=picking-potatoes-in-a-northern-maine-aroostook-county-farm Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:56:59 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18444 One spud, two spuds, picking potatoes on a Northern Maine Aroostook County farm. Was it hard for kids to head out into the early morning darkness to the Maine potato farm field? What work ethic lessons were learned for youth relied on to get the potatoes basket picked, poured into barrels, trucked from the Maine […]

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]]> High Food Costs, Lessons Learned In The Maine Potato Farm Field. https://meinmaine.com/2023/10/16/high-food-costs-lessons-learned-in-the-maine-potato-farm-field/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-food-costs-lessons-learned-in-the-maine-potato-farm-field Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:58:59 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=17798 High food costs. It’s not the Maine potato farmer or organic grower making a killing. Not just inflation. All the middle men is where the extra grocery food costs come into play. Your household family food budget. There is no way anyone pushing the wire cart with the one squeaky wheel in their local Piggly […]

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]]> Flowers On Maine Farms https://meinmaine.com/2023/07/05/flowers-on-maine-farms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flowers-on-maine-farms Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:44:38 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=17747 Flowers on Maine Farms on autopilot. I grew up on a Maine farm and the flowers around the 7 buildings pop up like clockwork. My Dad orchestrated the field planting. My Mom wrangled the flower beds around the farmstead. Years ago, bought the same family farm in Maine from my three older brothers. The rich […]

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]]> Instate Maine Vacations | Cape Porpoise, Old Port, Wells Beach ME https://meinmaine.com/2022/02/07/instate-maine-vacations-cape-porpoise-old-port-wells-beach-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=instate-maine-vacations-cape-porpoise-old-port-wells-beach-me Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:56:33 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=17146 Instate vacations, Cape Porpoise, Old Port, Wells Beach ME. When you are lucky enough to live in Maine full time, Vacationland is your playground. Ready to tap. Short trips, instate vacations are quick and easy when you already live in the state of Maine. This blog post more of a photo log about a three […]

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]]> Potato picking in Maine https://meinmaine.com/2021/10/15/potato-picking-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=potato-picking-in-maine Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:11:15 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=16924 Potato picking in Maine. For many of us in Northern Maine, picking potatoes for an area farmer was our first real job. For anyone raised on a Maine potato farm like I was, the fall harvest tradition is a strongly ingrained tradition. Many grown ups take their vacations to work the harvest. It’s was that […]

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]]> Amish Lifestyle In Maine https://meinmaine.com/2021/09/07/amish-lifestyle-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amish-lifestyle-in-maine Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:02:00 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=16871 Amish lifestyle in Maine. Large families of over ten children, farm living off the land. They say the average age of an American farmer is 59 years. But with the increase in Maine micro farmers, more Amish families moving into the North Eastern sections of the country, the median age is dropping. It’s not easy […]

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]]> Farming In Maine https://meinmaine.com/2020/11/27/farming-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=farming-in-maine Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:43:10 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=16440 Farming in Maine, it was the first noble profession. Because feeding yourself and your family is life and death important. No farmer, no food, no more life is the most basic law of the jungle. Farming in Maine started out pretty  small potatoes in the beginning. Creating what to serve up for your own meals, […]

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]]> Land In Maine, What’s The Big Attraction? https://meinmaine.com/2020/05/17/land-in-maine-whats-the-big-attraction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=land-in-maine-whats-the-big-attraction Sun, 17 May 2020 15:51:12 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=16141 Land in Maine has always been a low cost investment made for lots of reasons. People need vacations and the sheer size and less population make the state of Maine shine for lots of land for little money. Camping, recreational trips up to Maine have been a past time for many out of state all […]

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