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2022 PDC
We are excited to return to the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association Education center in Unity for a live, in-person Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course. After two years of all Zoom all the time, hopefully we can agree that something substantive is lost when we’re not in “meatspace” together, face to face. There’s a…
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Food Sovereignty as a step toward community resilience
Overview When we want to support local agriculture we think first to plant a garden or organize a farmers market. But rarely do we take the next logical step, which is to use local law to protect that sustainable agriculture system that we’re trying to build. When we don’t take that step, agribusiness corporations step…
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Who should control our food system?
By Nathan Davis and Jesse Labbe-Watson | Dec 01, 2016 Original link This question is at the core of the movement for food sovereignty in Maine and around the world. Food sovereignty is the assertion of local control over our food system, and the assertion against control by big agribusiness and nonlocal…
