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"Perhaps the most radical thing you can do in our time is to start turning over the soil, loosening it up for the crops to settle in, and then stay home and tend them."
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MOFGA Pest Report

The latest pest report (August 4th) focuses on:
  • late blight
  • hornworms and and hornworm parasites such as braconid wasps (pictured at left)
  • powdery mildew
  • Mexican bean beetles

Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
No brave new world in 1984, but we have pieces of both visions
Kennebec Journal - 8/5/2011. By Denis Thoet – Garrison Keillor marked the birthday of Aldous Huxley on July 26 during his "Writer's Almanac" by reviving the debate between those who considered a future like Huxley's "Brave New World," versus those who favored George Orwell's version of the future in "1984."
Supporting farmers markets creates thousands of jobs
TreeHugger - 8/4/2011. By Rachel Cernansky – "What's holding farmers markets back?" That's the question behind a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which determined the culprit to be federal policies that favor industrial agriculture over small and local farms. Change those policies, though, and you get a quick turnaround. According to the report, just a little public funding for 100 to 500 farmers markets a year could create up to 13,500 jobs within five years.
Group proposes Federal protections for alewives
Portland Press Herald - 8/3/2011. By Kevin Miller – Ellsworth: A national environmental group is petitioning federal regulators to list alewives and blueback herring as a “threatened species” because of declining populations in other states along the Eastern Seaboard.
Planting seeds in Maine for African heritage
Portland Press Herald - 8/2/2011. By Meredith Goad – Falmouth: Boulis Kodi treads lightly through a thriving garden patch, showing off a summer's worth of hard work by Nuba Mountain refugees from Sudan. "This is the sweet corn, and this is the tomatoes over here," said Kodi, who is the farm manager for the Center for African Heritage garden project at Tidewater Farm, just down the road from the University of Maine Regional Learning Center.
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