We would like to thank the many photographers who contributed images for this website, including Dennis Sheehy, Paul Gagne, Samantha Rocray, Noami Brautigam, David Merritt, and Lynn Byczynski.

LOCAL & COMMUNITY:
• Cape Farm Alliance — It is the mission of the Cape Farm Alliance to bring community members together to seek ways to ensure the viability and sustainability of Cape Elizabeth's agricultural assets, so that all citizens can enjoy the open space, fresh local products, rural scenery, and recreational opportunities they provide.
• Portland Farmers' Market — In 2010, we enter our 242nd year as the Portland Farmers' Market. We hope you will join us in celebrating our ancestors that made our market what it is today — a part of Portland's heritage and a beautiful example of the strength of our community.
• Tasting in Tongues Maine — Paul Gagne's Portland Farmers' Market cooking blog.
• Eat Maine Foods! — Eat Maine Foods is the networking site of the Eat Local Foods Coalition of Maine (ELFC), a coalition of groups and people working to put more Maine foods on more Maine tables more often.
• MOFGA's Journeyperson Farmer Training Program — Where and how will new farmers learn the skills and techniques, and gain the experience they will need to become practitioners of sustainable agriculture? In Maine, one answer is through new farmer support and training models like MOFGA's Journeyperson program.
• Rethinking Agriculture, Mark Fulford — Fulford addresses audiences from a wide range of backgrounds and philosophies embracing common sense, science and cultural wisdom for the times we live in. His lifelong study of the natural world and immersion in agriculture on his own farm and abroad, grounds his practices in experience.
• Portland Food Co-op — The Portland Food Co-op is an autonomous, member-owned, democratic, non-profit, local business open to all.
• Rabelais Books — Rabelais is always serving up fine books about food, wine, farming and gardening. We carry a sizable stock of rare, out-of-print and new books, alongside prints, photographs and other ephemera, all concerned with the pleasure of the senses.
• The Northeast School of Botanical Medicine — The Northeast School of Botanical Medicine offers two programs and a traditional styled herbal apprenticeship to help students gain a comprehensive understanding of the clinical application of herbal medicine along with an informed respect of the plants vital to this medicine.
• Kirsop Farm — Located in southwest Olympia, Kirsop Farm is dedicated to providing affordable organic produce while preserving the agricultural heritage of the county.

BOOKS:
• Agrarianism The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, Wendell Berry
• Wendell Berry, all of his books and recorded speeches
• Basic Sustainable Agriculture Literature The Essential Agrarian Reader, Norman Wirzba
• Organic Certification Analysis Agrarian Dreams, Julie Guthman
• Relationship to Place & Community Becoming Native to This Place, Wes Jackson
• Native American Ag. History Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden, G. Wilson
• Examples of Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and Central America Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance, Funes et al.
• Peter Rossett, all of his international work & writings
• Land & Conservation Breakfast of Biodiversity, Vandermeer & Perfecto

FARMING TEXTS:
• Agroecology: Ecological Processes in Sustainable Agriculture, Stephen Gliessman
• Cover Crops & Rotation, Seth Kroeck of www.crystalspringcsa.com
• Vegetable Production from Start-up to Market, Vern Grubinger
• The Winter Harvest Handbook, Eliot Coleman
• Seed to Seed, Suzanne Ashworth
• Growing For Market, periodical, Lynn Byszynski, Editor

FOOD SYSTEMS DOCUMENTARIES:
• The Global Banquet: Politics of Food, Old Dog Documentaries, Woodstock, VT
• Big Spuds, Little Spuds, Corves & Castiñeira, Bullfrog Films, Oley, PA
• My Father's Garden, Miranda Productions, Inc., Telluride, CO
• Cuba: The Accidental Revolution: Sustainable Agriculture, Ray Burley, CBC, Canada

SOME DEFINITIONS:
Ecological Agriculture practices work with the ecology of the farm and the surrounding landscape to encourage soil health, plant nutrition, and beneficial insects and microbes, all of which contribute to a resilient farming system within a wild environment.
Biological Farming developed before organic agriculture through the work of Wm. Albrecht, G. Zimmer, and P. Wheeler. Biological farming works with the microbial and biological communities in the farming system to foster the living life force in the soil and in the whole farm environment. Also called 'beyond organic' farming. Biological farmers use refractometers to measure the sugar level in crop tissue. This brix reading (sugar level content) is representative of the plant's ability to reach its optimum potential and nutrition value.
Sustainable Agriculture includes three spheres of sustainability: Ecological, Economic (both our farm & our entire local economy), and Social (community). We are committed to sustainable agriculture for these reasons.