The practice began during World War I
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Victory Gardens have returned during latest crisis
Plots are cropping up around Western Maine as people grow food for themselves and others.
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CEBE launches Nezinscot Food Collaborative, a community gardening project
BUCKFIELD — As part of its mission to foster a vibrant, local food movement, the Center for Ecology Based Economy (CEBE) has started a community garden program that it hopes will expand to communities throughout Oxford Hills. The first project is being developed in Buckfield at the Junior-Senior High School. “We’re calling it the Nezinscot […]
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Apply now for an Old Town community garden spot
Old Town residents known as the Old Town Pride/Image Committee have created raised beds for gardening this summer.
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Lewiston-area garden program a growing trend
Hawo Isac, background, awaits her turn as Batula Matan waters flowers on the perimeter of the Knox Street garden in Lewiston on Tuesday morning. The girls, of Lewiston, were tending one of the community gardens started by the Lots to Gardens program in 1999. More than a dozen gardens have been planted under the St. […]
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Kudos: Dennis Connelly grows community spirit
AUBURN — Spring is in the air – but not yet on the ground – and Dennis Connelly is itching to get to work on his gardens. On Thursday, as Connelly was helping serve food at the Police Activities League Center in Auburn, snow still blanketed the ground where he oversees a collection of garden […]
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Raise-Op Cooperative creating community vegetable garden
Fanek Herrmann, 11, moves topsoil at the lot on the corner of Birch and Pierce streets in Lewiston. The lot is owned by the Raise-Op Cooperative, a member-owned housing cooperative that recently bought the empty lot. The organization decided to create a community vegetable garden after polling the local residents. Herrmann’s family are member-owners of […]
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Spruce Mountain National Honor Society members plant community garden
JAY — Eleven members of the Spruce Mountain National Honor Society tilled the gardens and planted seeds at Spruce Mountain High School to benefit the Tri-Town Ministerial Association Food Cupboard. Bush beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, carrots and squash were among the plantings. Students will water, weed and harvest the community garden, and anyone interested in […]
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First community garden to open in Auburn
AUBURN — Charis Heisey, coordinator of the Auburn Community Garden Initiative, is hoping the first community garden in the city will lead to a lot of naturally grown produce. The Webster Street Community Garden at Webster and Chestnut streets will have its first bloom this year with the help of 20 to 24 local gardeners, tending […]