Stories & Newsletters
Fall 2007 issue of Maine Farmland Trust News
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Recent Stories
- 200-Acre Auburn Farm Protected with MFT Buy-Protect-Sell Program
- Rockport farmland to be Protected through MFT-MCHT Partnership
- Portland Press Herald - Got Land, Get Farmers, 9-1-07
Newsletter Archives
Spring 2007
- Our Goal: Preserve 100,000 Acres in 5 Years
- New Program: Buy-Protect-Sell
- Unity Subdivision Prevented
- Preserving Historic Barns
- Maine FarmLink Quiz
- How You Can Help Farming's Future
Summer 2006
- Protecting Maine Farmland Statewide
- Eating Local in Maine
- Maine FarmLink: How Leasing Can Work - Dairyman Chris Lewis
- New FarmLink Coordinator, Esther Lacognata
- Meet the New Executive Director, John Piotti
Fall/Winter 2005
- Uncas Farm in Whitefield: protecting a community treasure
- Guest Editorial by Jean Demetracopoulos: Buy Maine Food
- Maine FarmLink: Meserve Farm in Scarborough linked to new farmer
- Land for Maine’s Future on Ballot November 8
- MFT Hires New Development Coordinator, Denis Thoet
Fall 2004
- Keewaydin Farm: prime farmland in Bowdoinham protected
- Our Fifth Birthday Achievements
- Maine FarmLink: Feather Foot Farm, Aurora; Nevell Farm, Penobscot
- Regrouping and planning for a future land bond
- Meet Neil Crane: brings large-farm perspective to MFT Board
Spring 2004
- Saving Farmland, Saving Farms: MFT partners with the Maine Department of Agriculture and other conservation partners
- Annual Meeting held May 25 at Crane Brothers Farm, Exeter
- Eat Local Foods Coalition: A new coalition to promote Maine foods
- Another Maine FarmLink success in Thorndike
- Farmer incubator study underway
- Meet Adrian Wadsworth, founding MFT board member
Fall 2003
- ThorKnox Farms: 320 prime acres protected in Thorndike, Knox
- Land For Maine’s Future: 3 farmland projects completed
- Farmland Stewardship: an easement is just the beginning
- Unity Barn Raisers: a proactive partnership
- Turkey Hill Farm — back in production
- Meet Susie O’Keeffe, Coordinator for Maine FarmLink
Spring 2003
- Collyer Brook Farm now permanently protected
- Dairy Crisis — Farmland Crisis
- Maine FarmLink: Farm Transfer Issues Addressed
- Ben Brook: combining farmland protection with conservation
- Meet George Maendel, from farmer to farm preservation activist
Fall 2002
- Farmlands in West Paris and Cornville now permanently protected
- Land for Maine’s Future: Lakeside Orchards
- Waldo County Initiative to Sign up Farmers, Landowners
- Maine FarmLink: Getting Retiring Farmers and New Farmers Together
- Meet Paul Birdsall, farm preservation activist
Spring 2002
- Brick Farm in Skowhegan now permanently protected
- Land for Maine’s Future: Farmland Protection
- Farms for the Future, initial projects underway
- Farmland Protection Forum: Transfer of the Farm featured
- Meet our Executive Director, LouAnna Perkins