COMMON GROUND COUNTRY FAIR ARTWORK CONTEST

May 22, 2008 (Unity, Maine) -- The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Association (MOFGA) announces an artwork contest for the 2009 Common Ground Country Fair. The selected artwork will be featured on the 2009 Fair poster, t-shirts, other Fair merchandise, and promotional literature. Newspaper articles and press releases will focus on the artist and the artwork. The winning artist will receive $1,000.00.

Each year the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association invites Maine residents and MOFGA members (regardless of residence) to submit a design for our Common Ground Country Fair poster. Artists may submit two entries. All entries must arrive in the MOFGA office by 4 p.m. on Friday, August 8th, 2008. MOFGA will retain full rights to the design.

All interested artists may obtain complete guidelines, including technical
specifications, and an application via MOFGA's website: www.mofga.org.

The 2008 Fair artwork contest winner was Grace Keown, of Dixmont, Maine, whose illustration featured a red barn and hayfield. Visit MOFGA's website
at www.mofga.org to see Grace's design as well as all of the other Fair artwork since 1977. This year's poster, and posters from most prior Fairs, is available from MOFGA for $10.00 plus postage.

The Common Ground Country Fair will take place at MOFGA's home in Unity on September 19, 20 & 21 -- always the third weekend after Labor Day. The Fair allows fairgoers to make connections with a rapidly expanding base of organic farms in the state of Maine. Hundreds of vendors, exhibitors and demonstrators, more than 1,000 volunteers, and over 50,000 fairgoers will gather to: share knowledge about sustainable living; eat delicious, organic, Maine-grown food; buy and sell beautiful Maine crafts and useful agricultural products; compete in various activities; dance; sing and have a great time.

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), formed in 1971, is the oldest and largest state organic organization in the country. The purpose of the Association is to help farmers and gardeners grow organic food, protect the environment, recycle natural resources, increase local food production, support rural communities, and illuminate for consumers the connection between healthful food and environmentally sound growing practices.

For more information contact the Fair office at PO Box 170, Unity, ME 04988. Phone: 207-568-4142. E-mail: cgcf@mofga.org. Web: www.mofga.org.