What issues are you and/or your group interested or expert in?
farmland protection, organics, health and nutrition, food justice, home gardens, community gardens, hunger and local foods access, CSAs, farmers' markets, local foods marketing and distribution, food coops, GM-free seeds and genetics, other
Are you a food producer? If so, what types of food do you produce?
vegetables, berry fruit, cheese and dairy, grains and bakery, specialty/fancy foods, beer, other
If you produce foods of some sort, please choose one of the following:
I produce foods only for my own and my family's consumption
Other info about Me (please mention any food, fishing, agriculture, or community groups you are affiliated with):
Owner of listserve, Maine Locavores on yahoo groups, organic gardener on .11 acres in urban sea-side community of Old Orchard Beach, we have begun a small orchard and grow many food-bearing plants.
Hi Amy, Call me at 522-2606 and/or email me at mainelyorganic (at) yahoo (dot) com. I'd be happy to send you the proposal for my book. I'm not including interior photos because it raises the price of publishing astronomically out of my range and the price of the book over what I think its market would bear.
Hi Amy,
thanks for your kind words. if you want to email normally, my email is karl@yearofthegoat.net - would be happy to provide you guys with some raw milk if you're interested.
best, Karl
Hi Amy, I left an answer to your raw milk post and had another thought. You are interested in raw milk - we're looking for someone who can farm sit for us for a weekend in September and milk our goats. Maybe we can barter farmsitting for raw milk :-). Let me know if you're interested. Best, Karl
The movie FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Potluck, movie, discussion. Childcare available.
Hi Cassie,
For insurance, see your current agent and ask for a liability rider to cover you at farmers' markets.
For permits, see the Maine Dept of Ag permits page for such things as processed foods.
Links to a few [farmers' market aware] insurance…
If you are interested in becoming a vendor, please get in contact with Laura Campbell at sweethollowsfarm@gmail.com
We hoped to be located in the AmVets parking lot/field, (across from Hodgeman's Frozen Custard) right on rt. 100.
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La…
Cassie, I agree with the below messages - go to the Dept of Ag website or call someone there and find out what you need for a license depending on what you sell. I sell perennials and it is a quick form and it comes back just as quick. I carry liabi…
Cassie, your best bet is to be in touch with whoever organizes the market you are thinking of selling at. Some markets require that each vendor have their own product liability insurance, and some markets recommend but don't require it. And BTW I've…
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I'm looking for a photo to put on the cover of my upcoming book, BRINGING FOOD HOME: THE MAINE EXAMPLE. Is This Bountiful Life a possibility?
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thanks for your kind words. if you want to email normally, my email is karl@yearofthegoat.net - would be happy to provide you guys with some raw milk if you're interested.
best, Karl