Week of June 5, 2017

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UNITY, MAINE -- 05/30/2017 -- Carole Mapes takes flower seedlings to transplant them into a filed. Mapes is the current Farmer-in-Residence at the MOFGA Common Ground Fairground. She will grow about 50 varieties flowers this season. The resident program lasts two years and she has access to MOFGA's agricultural resource base. Mapes grew up in Iowa on a commercial farm and moved to Maine five years ago. After apprenticing on several small organic farms now she is hoping to establish her own business.
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