Tag: Maine Farmland Trust

Talk of the Towns 2/9/18

Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne

Farms and Food System—the work of Maine Farmland Trust

Key Discussion Points:
How did MFT come to be and what are some of the elements in the timeline since it was started?
Thumbnail sketch of farming and farmers in Maine in 2018 and what trends are playing out?
Have the issues affecting farmers and farmland changed over the last twenty years?
How have your programs evolved… how are you advancing your mission today?
Farmland Access: Maine Farmlink, Maine Farms Realty
Farmland Protection: Purchased Easement Program, Buy-Protect-Sell
Farm Viability: Farming for Wholesale, Maine Harvest Bucks, Business Planning
Stewardship
Outreach & Public Policy: Maine Farms Journal, Art Gallery & Josheph A. Fiore Art Center, Policy & Research

Guests:
Amanda Beal, President, Maine Farmland Trust
Erica Buswell, Vice President of Programs, Maine Farmland Trust
Brady Hatch Morning Dew Farm, Newcastle
Eleanor Kinney, board member for Maine Farmland Trust

Mid-Coast Currents 12/16/11

Program Name: Mid-Coast Currents

Broadcast Date: December 16, 2011

Broadcast Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

Program Topic: Visual Arts as Environmental Advocacy

Key Discussion Points:
a) How has Maine Farmland Trust used the visual arts?
b) What does it mean to be an “Environmental Documentarian?”
c) How effective has “From the Land” been for Maine Farmland Trust?

Guests:
A) Bridget Besaw, Environmental Documentarian

Bridget’s projects have tackled issues such as development threats to northern Maine’s wilderness, loss of working farmland in New England, restoration of crucial salmon habitat in the North Pacific, threats to wild rivers and arid grasslands in South America, climate change research and prevention in Indonesian forests and sustainable fisheries initiatives throughout the world.i

Organizations who have partnered with Bridget to create imagery and multimedia projects:Maine Farmland Trust, The Nature Conservancy,? Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Patagonia, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,?? Chewonki Foundation, ?The Kittredge Foundation,The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Penobscot River Restoration Trust and Patagonia Sur Foundation.

As a press photographer, Bridget has won numerous national press awards for stories on the depletion of natural resources.

Bridget has created feature stories for:Newsweek, Time, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, Business Week, Smithsonian, National Geographic Adventure and Nature Conservancy Magazine.??

Bridget has published two books in partnership with environmental organizations:Wildness within, Wildness without in 2007 with and From the Land in 2010.

B) John Piotti is the Executive Director of Maine Farmland Trust headquartered in Belfast, he is former Maine State Senator for District 23, and helped found the Unity Barn Raisers. Maine Farmland Trust partnered with Bridget Besaw to produce “From the Land” that included images by Besaw, text by Piotti and foreword by Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree.

For More Information:
Bridget Besaw: www.bridgetbesaw.com
Maine Farmland Trust: www.mainefarmlandtrust.org

Call In Program: YES

Political Broadcast:

Host: John Zavodny

Engineer: Joel Mann

Mid-Coast Currents 9/16/11

Producer/Host: John Zavodny
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topic: Mid-Coast Land Conservation
Guests:
LouAnna Perkins is former Executive Director of Maine Farmland Trust and now serves as its staff attorney. On the side, she is a musician, storyteller and grandmother. She and her husband Royce live in Penobscot.
Galen Todd is President of Coastal Mountains Land Trust. He is a retired paper industry executive and former president of Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Rockland. Galen Todd is Managing Director of Curtis Island Partners, LLC, a volunteer firefighter, and Director of the Ragged Mountain Ski Patrol.
Ellen Skoczenski grew up in Portland Maine and has recently returned after being “away” for 7 years. She is the Coastal Mountains Land Trust Membership Coordinator and previously worked for two years on land preservation and stewardship projects in the southwest.

For More Information
Maine Farmland Trust: http://www.mainefarmlandtrust.org
Coastal Mountains Land Trust: http://www.coastalmountains.org