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Chemicals in environment ‘damaging male fertility’ |  New evidence has emerged that suggests chemicals routinely found in the environment could be damaging fertility in some men. Researchers tested sheep that had been exposed to chemicals such as cosmetics, detergents and pollutants. They found "abnormalities that could result in low sperm counts in 42% of the animals". | | May 18, 2012 00:00 |
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Report: ‘Over-consumption’ threatening Earth |  Humans are using 50 percent more resources than the Earth can provide, and unless fundamental changes are made in the way we produce energy, food, and if we cannot curb our consumption of other natural resources that number will continue to skyrocket, according to a new report released today by the World Wildlife Fund. | | May 15, 2012 00:00 |
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Urban agriculture isn’t new |  In a review of urban agriculture throughout modern history at a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., a diverse set of academics and designers ranging from historians to landscape architects discussed how the practice has evolved over the ages, often been highly ideological, and continues to be loaded with meaning. | | May 15, 2012 00:00 |
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Keep harmful chemicals away from children | | Op-ed by Dr. Janice L. Pelletier and Dr. Steve Feder – Pediatricians know that children’s bodies are uniquely vulnerable to chemical harm. Why is that so? First, kids of all ages have more exposure to chemicals. A developing fetus can be exposed through umbilical cord blood and an infant through breast milk. Small children spend more time on the floor and ground, exploring by putting objects in their mouths, making them more at risk for chemical exposures than adults who are upright. Teenagers tend to try plenty of chemical products in their drinks, on their hair and for their skin. | | May 15, 2012 00:00 |
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Cherry bomb: a year with less pie |  By Tove Danovich – This year it’s looking unlikely that the Cherry Festival will feature any Michigan cherries. Two 80-degree weeks in March caused blossoms to bud early, before the Midwestern winter returned with its standard frosty, below-freezing temperatures. Though many growers are still a few weeks from knowing the full extent of the weather damage, they’re looking at what could be a total loss. | | May 15, 2012 00:00 |
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Too many cooks, not enough fish. What’s the solution? |  By Robert Krulwich – Yes, there are more and more people on the planet, and yes, there are fewer and fewer fish in the sea, but do we really notice? After all, fish live in water and we live on land; so we don't mingle that much. If fish were sparrows, we might see a dramatic decline, but who misses what they don't see in the first place? | | May 15, 2012 00:00 |
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A growing problem: notes from the ‘superweed’ summit |  By Genna Reed – Last week, the National Academy of Sciences hosted a summit to discuss “superweeds,” or the widespread problem of herbicide-resistant weeds currently afflicting millions of farm acres across the United States. | | May 14, 2012 00:00 |
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Locally produced food is more sustainable way to grow | | Op-ed by Bonnie Sammons – "Food, glorious food, We're anxious to try it. Three banquets a day, Our favorite diet!" The starving orphans in that long ago musical, "Oliver," said it well. Where would we be without food? | | May 14, 2012 00:00 |
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Turning over a new lease on a farm |  By Gillian Graham – Stacy Brenner says she wouldn't know what to do with her time if she weren't farming. She won't have to wonder anymore. She and her husband, John Bliss, have leased Broadturn Farm from the Scarborough Land Trust for the next 30 years. | | May 12, 2012 00:00 |
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Relief funds set up for a farm and an apple ladder business destroyed by fire |  By Avery Yale Kamila – When this stately old barn burned to the ground early Monday, it took with it the lives of three draft horses, 20 sheep, two pigs, two calves and roughly 60 chicks and ducklings. Bill and Cynthia Thayer who own the organic-certified Darthia Farm in Gouldsboro tried to rescue the animals but were injured and beaten back by the intense flames. | | May 11, 2012 00:00 |
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Fire destroys Brooks apple ladder manufacturing facility |  By Abigail Curtis – Brooks: As his manufacturing facility continued to smolder Wednesday afternoon from a devastating fire that began the night before, Peter Baldwin said he wasn’t sure what the future will bring for the business he has run in a converted dairy barn on Hall Hill Road for 23 years. The fire at Baldwin Apple Ladders consumed part of a year’s inventory of the wooden ladders, all his equipment and a year’s worth of rungs. | | May 10, 2012 00:00 |
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Thousands more farmers markets will soon take food stamps |  By Rachel Cernansky – When it comes to giving more people access to fresh, healthy food, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has turned a great deal of its focus in recent years toward farmers markets. And, more specifically, opening farmers markets up to Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) or “food stamp” users. | | May 10, 2012 00:00 |
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Community-supported-farming goes buffet in Maine |  By Meredith Goad – Starting in June, Beth Schiller and Lee Straw are taking a gamble. The two farmers, owners of Dandelion Springs Farm and Straw Farm in Newcastle, are starting the state's first year-round, all-you-can-eat CSA. Yes, all you can eat. | | May 09, 2012 00:00 |
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The croft |  By Sharon Blackie – One of the remarkable things about crofting is that it provides the best of two worlds: the system is individualistic – a crofter runs and manages his own croft – and collaborative – the elected township Grazings Committee manages the communal land and can often fulfil other functions as well. | | May 09, 2012 00:00 |
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Tracking the localvores |  By Lisa Rathke – Montpelier, Vt. (AP): A committed “locavore,” Robin McDermott once struggled to stock her kitchen with food grown within 100 miles of her Vermont home. She once drove 70 miles to buy beans and ordered a bulk shipment of oats from the neighboring Canadian province of Quebec. Six years later, she doesn’t need to travel far, even for locally made sunflower oil. | | May 08, 2012 00:00 |
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Fire destroys Gouldsboro barn, kills animals inside |  By Tom Walsh – Gouldsboro: An early morning fire Monday destroyed the old wooden barn that was the centerpiece of the Darthia Farm on West Bay Road in Gouldsboro, killing the assortment of horses, sheep, pigs, calves and young ducklings and chickens inside. | | May 07, 2012 00:00 |
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Will this Farm Bill do enough for young farmers? |  By Lindsey Lusher Shute – By the time the next Farm Bill expires in five years, 125,000 American farmers will have retired. This fact may well be the biggest threat to national food security, but you wouldn’t know it if you’ve been following this year’s Farm Bill hearings. | | May 07, 2012 00:00 |
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Got goats’ milk? Northern Maine farm has it, and cheese too |  By Julia Bayly – Connor Township: Candy Shrewsberry is the first person to admit that for a long time she was no fan of goat’s milk. But the former Wisconsin dairy farmer has had a change of palate and today is gaining converts to fresh goat’s milk, thanks to the products of her Talk of the Town Farm. | | May 07, 2012 00:00 |
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Investing in public land is good business for Maine | | Editorial – A state that prides itself on being open for business ought to know what business it is in. Maine's No. 1 industry is tourism, so it has an interest in preserving public access to woods, coastline, mountaintops and trail systems, just as a paper company cares about its access to trees. | | May 06, 2012 00:00 |
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Maine’s grain past inspires Bet Ha’am kids to wheaty endeavor |  By Tom Atwell – Maine used to be a major wheat-growing state and remained a commercial source for wheat as late as the 1940s. Shai Levite and Toby Rosenberg shared that information last Sunday as fifth-graders at Congregation Bet Ha'am in South Portland planted a crop of spring wheat. | | May 06, 2012 00:00 |
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A raw deal for milk? |  Editorial – Small farmers in Maine are closely watching a legal case headed for Hancock County Superior Court in Ellsworth. The state is suing a Blue Hill farmer to stop him from selling unpasteurized milk. The case could test the legality of dozens of small farming operations in the county and the scope of local marketing of organic food. | | May 04, 2012 00:00 |
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