Join us for the 49th Common Ground Country Fair September 19, 20 and 21 at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity!| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
MOFGA’s quarterly newspaper is considered to be one of the leading information sources on organic agriculture and sustainable living practices.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
“What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is the most comprehensive, pragmatic, and uplifting piece of climate and environmental literature written in the last decade, if not ever! It is a book that stands with environmental calls to action like Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” and Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand […] The post Book Review: “What If We Get It Right?” appeared first on Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Review of “The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide” by Thomas Easley and Steven Horne, published in 2025.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Part cookbook, part garden guide, “The Edible Flower” has everything you need to get started growing — and eating — flowers. Authors Erin Bunting, a chef, and organic gardener Jo Facer have been serving garden-to-table meals at their smallholding in Ireland. Most people think of flowers as decorative additions to a dish, but the truth […] The post Book Review: “The Edible Flower” appeared first on Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Like any scientist, mycologist Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian is no stranger to closely examining the world around her. From the Laboulbeniales — multicellular fungi that live on the surface of beetles — that she has made a career of studying, to the copperheads whose company she sought out as a child, Kaishian applies a unique lens […] The post Book Review: “Forest Euphoria” appeared first on Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Erin Zimmerman’s “Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science” is a compelling memoir that intertwines her passion for plants with the challenges she faced as a woman in science. Dispersed through the book are botanical illustrations by Zimmerman, and quotes by other scientists begin each chapter. The book is one plant […] The post Book Review: “Unrooted” appeared first on Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
“I have come to understand eating with the planet and animals in mind as a practice rather than a strict set of rules that must be followed to the letter at all times, no matter one’s circumstances or geography,” writes Alicia Kennedy in “No Meat Required: The Cultural History & Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating.” […] The post Book Review: “No Meat Required” appeared first on Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
If you’re looking for company and inspiration throughout the gardening season — from planting to wintering and in between — you might enjoy the lovely anthology “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for gardens & the hands that tend them.” This book of poems takes us through cyclical gardening seasons. Each of these seasons, from “Weeding & […] The post Book Review: “Leaning Toward Light” appeared first on Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
“ …what it means for me to be a country queer, is that you can’t leave your folk at the door. You can’t act like you grew up with people that weren’t like the people that are acting all kinds of crazy in all kinds of ways.” – Elandria Williams “Country Queers: A Love Letter” […] The post Book Review: “Country Queers” appeared first on Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
AgFunder is a venture capital firm that invests broadly in technology, agriculture, and food. I admit that as an organic farmer and homesteader it’s a little strange that I subscribe to their newsletter. The companies highlighted by AgFunder are bathed in the Silicon Valley ideology of techno-utopianism with a strange idea of what dinner might […] The post Book Review: “The Problem with Solutions” appeared first on Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Marie White’s “The Herbal Doula” is a comprehensive and inclusive guide that delves into the use of herbal medicine throughout the reproductive journey, encompassing fertility, conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond. White approaches herbal care with a Health at Every Size (HAES) perspective, while also acknowledging anyone with a uterus can become pregnant, and explains […] The post Book Review: “The Herbal Doula” appeared first on Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners.| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners