Grant program gives lifeline to central Maine farms struggling to cover rising costs

The initiative run by the Maine Farmland Trust has provided financial support to farms in Albion, Somerville, West Gardiner and elsewhere that complete a 2-year program meant to fine-tune their business plans.

Farming organizations raise more than $1 million to assist farmers affected by PFAS contamination

Most of the money for the fund, established by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the Maine Farmland Trust, was raised through a partnership with The Lost Kitchen, a restaurant in Freedom.

Maine farmers contending with contamination receive a lifeline

A fund established by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the Maine Farmland Trust has so far raised more than $500,000 to provide financial support to farmers with land where PFAS contamination has been found.

Exhibit features work from resident artists from 2020

Maine Farmland Trust Gallery

38 Maine farmers receive Maine Farm Emergency Grants

Family buys 120-year-old ‘Forever Farm’ in Embden

Emily Eckhardt and her partner, Dillon Robinson, bought the 79-acre farm, which the Maine Farmland Trust recently designated a Forever Farm.