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Title
Jamaicans
Year
1988
At Tom Gyger's orchard near Bridgton, Jamaican apple pickers live a life between two worlds. Lisa Rathke follows around 13 pickers through the harvest and their daily lives.
Type
Writing
Title
Fishing's Not Fun Anymore
Year
2007
When Taunton Bay closed off to fisherman and draggers in 2000, fishermen who made their livelihoods in those waters began to suffer financially. Kelsey Abbott highlights how the fishermen who harvested mussels in Taunton Bay are facing bankrupcy and business instability,due to their displacement.
Type
Writing
Title
Maquoit Bay Clamming Brunswick
Year
1991
Clam digging in Maquoit Bay is a waiting game based on the weather and tides. Meredith Stukey investigates the trade of clamdigging and clam industry by speaking with individuals who hunt for clams in Maquoit Bay.
Type
Writing
Title
Broccoli Harvest
Year
1992
Kristin Atwell documents the lives of migrant workers from Mexico to the Philippines who come to Maine to harvest acres of broccoli. She explores how these newcomers to the Aroostook community brought forth interest, as well as some difficulties.
Type
Writing
Title
You Know What Paradise Is?
Year
2001
Instead of using local labor, Henry Drake hires Jamaicans to help me pick apples every season at his apple orchard. Kaarin Svendsen speaks to Drake and his crew to get a sense of work at an apple orchard, and learns about Jamaican culture.
Type
Radio
Title
Julie and the Snails
Year
2009
In Cobscook Bay, the snail population is going away, which risks the community's way of life. Alix Blair highlights how Julie Keene is attempting to fight to save the snails and the harvesting community.
Type
Radio
Title
Smells Like Money, To Me
Year
2003
Zac Barr highlights the work of sea cucumber harvesters and processors, and discusses how the business brings in good money for the workers and fishermen. Barr also speaks on the Hispanic community that works for the Cherry Point plant.
Type
Radio
Title
Recipes for Seaweed, Recipes for Peace
Year
2003
Chris Korzen highlights the work and life of Larch Hanson, the owner of a seaweed harvesting company. Hanson discusses his work, family, and spirituality.
Type
Radio
Title
Still Rooted In Potatoes
Year
2013
The population in Aroostook County has declined within recent years, which has caused family potato farms to go away. Julie Rawe documents how potato farming is still important in Aroostook County, and speaks to Gaylen Flewelling about keeping the harvest tradition alive.
Type
Radio
Title
Just A Sample: Questions Surface About Brain Harvesting in Maine
Year
2011
Following the death of her husband, Anne Murray Mozingo was asked by Stanley Medical Research Institute if they could use a part of her husbands brain for research. Katrina Roi investigates how the institute took more than they asked for, and the legal debate Mozingo became involved with regarding tissue donation.
Type
Radio
Title
Potato Roots
Year
2018
Fifteen-year-old Maddie Buzza has an unusual job: for three weeks every fall, she works on a farm picking potatoes. It's a generations-old tradition in Maine's Aroostook County known as harvest break. But in the potato-centric town of Presque Isle, there's uncertainty about this tradition's future.
Type
Radio
Title
Recipe for radical rest (serves 3)
Year
2021
Heather Flor is a Peruvian-American farmer and artist who uses rest as a radical tool. Heather’s mother, María Rosita, and her four-year old nephew, Ediercito, do too.
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