FOOD PANTRIES

• Good Shepard Food Bank. Includes a county-based list of more than 600 agencies served.
• Maine Dept. of Agriculture list of Food Assistance Programs. County based list.
  
  

WHOLESALING

• Crown of Maine Organic Cooperative. "Maine Products for Maine People!" Distributes organic Maine grown items throughout the state. Includes lists of stores, restaurants, and buying clubs connecting with local food.

FARMERS' MARKETS

• Maine Federation of Farmers' Markets. All of our farmers' market info is at this website.

FOOD

• LocalHarvest.org. "The best organic food is what's grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies."
  
  
• The 100 mile Diet. "When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles—call it "the SUV diet." On the first day of spring, 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon (bios) chose to confront this unsettling statistic with a simple experiment. For one year, they would buy or gather their food and drink from within 100 miles of their apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia."
  
  
• Slow Food Portland. "Dedicated to promoting the pleasures of the table and the benefits of eating local healthy foods in season, while preserving our regional culinary heritage"
  
  
• Maine Food & Lifestyle Magazine. "Maine's reputation as a true culinary destination and a producer of healthy, quality food continues to grow, and Maine Food & Lifestyle magazine is proud to give that movement a voice."
  
  
• Food for Maine's Future. Food for Maine's Future is a non profit organization that serves as an umbrella for groups and campaigns which share a common goal of building a just, secure, sustainable and democratic food system to the benefit of all Maine farmers, communities, and the environment.
  
  
• Maine Foods Network. "Maine Foods Network is a web site meant to help put more Maine food on more Maine tables more often. This network of several Maine sustainable agriculture projects— * The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), * The Hancock County Locally Grown Foods Project, and * Farm Fresh Connection, a program of the Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society —aims to make it easier for Maine farmers to find local markets for their world-class produce, as well as for Maine businesses to offer the highest quality local foods to their customers. "
  
  
• Organic Food in Maine, The Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association (MOFGA) maintains this searchable database to help you locate fresh, organic, Maine-grown food.

FARM

• Baldwin Apple Alddders, Brooks. Fine quality wooden apple ladders of many sizes and designs.
  
  
• MOFGA. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.
  
  
• MOFGA's Calendar of Events.
  
  
• MOFGA Certification Services, LLC. USDA accredited certifier for organic products.
  
  
• Organic Land Care. Website of the Maine Organic Landscape Professionals.
  
  
• Maine Tree Crop Alliance. These are the folks who started the annual Scionwood Exchange.
  
  
• Maine Farmland Trust. A Belfast-based nonprofit established in 1999, "Maine Farmland Trust is Maine's only statewide land trust focused exclusively on farmland."
  
  
• Maine Farmlink. A farm transfer program that connects farmers seeking farmland with retiring Maine farmers and farm owners who wish to see their agricultural lands remain active.
  
  
• Local Ag Development Task Force Report - 2004. Task force included Karen Baldacci as chair.
  
  

SEEDS

Buying seeds from small and producers is just as important as buying your food from small and local farmers. With the advent of the Internet, there are hundreds of small scale seed producers who preserve heirloom and/or organically grown varieties and now have websites instead of much more expensive printed catalogs. Googling the variety name or characteristics you are interested in will usually allow you to find many sources for any variety.

• Johnny's Selected Seeds, Albion, ME. Wide variety of organic and conventional seeds, books, & tools.
  
  
• Fedco Seeds, Clinton, ME. Also Moose Tubers, Organic Growers Supply, Fedco Trees and Fedco Bulbs.
  
  
• Pine Tree Garden Seeds, New Gloucester, ME. Specializes in seeds for gardeners.
  
  
• Maine Potato Lady, Guilford, ME. Supplier of organic seed potatoes, fingerlings, shallots, garlic & onion sets.
  
  
• Organic Seed Alliance. A website for seed producers.
  
  

PESTICIDES

• Green Methods Biocontrols. A New Hampshire-based small business offering a wide range of biological controls for plant pests. Website and catalog are encyclopedic in the amount of info they offer. Website also has a Bug Blog.
  
  
• Beyond Pesticides - The National Campaign Against the Misuse of Pesticides maintains this website, which provide pesticide news, information and action alerts.
  
  
• Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides - Provides news and information about the coalition's efforts to advance healthy solutions to pest problems.
  
  
• Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA) - News and information about PANNA's campaigns to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.
  
  
• Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database - Your one-stop location for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides. This is a project of the Pesticide Action Network of North America.
  
  
• Food News. The Environmental Working Group, this website presents a report card on pesticides in produce, and includes a downloadable wallet card to help you choose produce that lowers your exposure.