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Photography
Title
Doing Barn Chores Photographs
Year
1990
Cay Chalker captures the life of a dairy farmer and their farm chores.
Type
Photography
Title
Mussel Men: Farmers of the Sea
Year
2003
Kate Fox captures the profession of mussel farming.
Type
Photography
Title
Some Kind of Farm: Some Kind of Farmer
Year
2002
Molly Myers captures images of the Bowie family and their farm.
Type
Photography
Title
Elizabeth Cori Jones Deep Root Farm
Year
1996
Brian Gorman captures the life of Elizabeth Cori-Jones, a farmer and activist who specializes in organic produce.
Type
Photography
Title
Broccoli Harvesting
Year
1992
Amy Toensing captures the work and living conditions of migrant workers in Limestone, Maine.
Type
Radio
Title
A Reason for the Purpose
Year
2010
Working on a farm since a young age, Colby Perron highlights how farmers are smarter than most people realize. Perron speaks about working with cattle, his desire to go to college for agriculture, and food production.
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.
Type
Writing
Title
Benedicta
Year
1991
The farming community in Benedicta, Maine plays an important role in creating the history of the community, as discussed by John Morris. Morris focuses on what creates a sense of place for those who live in Benedicta, speaking with farmers to learn about their experiences.
Type
Writing
Title
What Feels Right
Year
2011
Caldwell Farm, a small, family run organic farm in Turner is managing to grow despite a tough economic climate. Ian Moulton highlights the work that Ralph and Deedee Caldwell put into their farm, from produce to livestock, and how they worry about growing too large.
Type
Writing
Title
Food in Small Places
Year
2012
Adriana Widdoes highlights how in the small town of Troy, the Farmers Corner Restaurant creates some of the best homecooked food in all of Maine. Widdeos recounts her experience going to the restaurant on her way to Bangor and then returning for more.
Type
Writing
Title
The Beef Soldier
Year
2012
Ben Hartwell is a cattle farmer from Gorham who only feeds his cattle with grass. Amy Miller documents how Hartwell's beliefs regarding government interference with his farming, and how he works hard to keep all production and sales at the local level.
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.
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