Tim Hughes investigates the controversy over rBST and discusses how cattle farming in Maine plays a role in the dialogue regarding the bovine growth hormone.

Needing to make changes to the way fish were caught in Port Clyde, Glen Libby and others formed the Midcoast Fishermen's Cooperative in order to protect their resources and make more money. Willa Kammerer speaks to Glen Libby about the impact that him and other fishermen are making in the Gulf of Maine, and how they process their own catches.

Table of contents for August 1989 Salt Magazine.

Despite the outrage from fishermen, sea farmers are fencing off sections of coastal bottom. George Carey documents the controversy between mussel growers and lobstermen.

Table of contents for July 1990 Salt Magazine.

Title page to new section of magazine.

Table of contents for November 1989 Salt Magazine.

Pamela Wood speaks about tourism as a double edged sword in Maine, and how it is impacting the state in the 1980s.

Staff, contributors, trustees, and academic board members are listed.

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.

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.

Meredith Wade explores the traditional craft of basketweaving, speaking with basketmakers in the Agamenticus community.