Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on February 23, 2012
 With this issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener, we begin a series of profiles of MOFGA staff members – beginning with our longtime organic “Extension Agent” Eric Sideman, who continues in that position, with a focus on organic crops.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on February 23, 2012
 In January 2012 MOFGA welcomed Andy McEvoy as its Low Impact Forestry coordinator. He will expand forestry-related learning opportunities and promote responsible woodlot management among the MOFGA membership.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2011
MOFGA welcomes Dave Colson, Gianna Short, John Chartier and Jake Galle.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2011
 MOFGA has a new landscape coordinator, Joe Dupere. After 20 years at the University of Maine Orono, Joe and his wife Kyle decided to pursue a slower paced lifestyle, more in tune with seasonal cycles.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2011
MOFGA members voted in a new board of directors at its annual meeting on January 11. Barbara Damrosch, who has served on MOFGA's board for several years, is president.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2011
The voice you first hear or person you first see at MOFGA is, most likely, that of Emily Horton, our new administrative assistant.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2011
Congratulations to Melissa White Pillsbury, MOFGA’s organic marketing coordinator, on the January 27 birth of her son, Maxximus Byron James Pillsbury.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2010
Katie Webb is the new reviewer/inspector for MOFGA Certification Services, LLC, and Emily Horton is MOFGA’s summer assistant for the Common Ground Fair.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on December 01, 2009
Welcome to Joan Cheetham and Gwyneth Harris.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2009
 MOFGA welcomed Meredith Batley into the Common Ground Country Fair office this past summer. She grew up in midcoast Maine and has been visiting the Common Ground Country Fair since she was a child in a backpack.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2009
News about Melissa White Pillsbury, Janice Clark, Eric Rector, Jacomijn Schravesande, and Kate Newkirk.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2008
 In July, MOFGA hired yet another amazing staff member: Katy Green is the new administrative assistant and the front desk person who will greet visitors to the organization.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2008
In mid-May, MOFGA’s office manager, Ann Haskell, moved on to a new chapter in her life. After three years of coordinating administrative activities in our headquarters in Unity, Haskell accepted a seasonal position at Lily Bay State Park where her husband, Andy, is park manager.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2008
Donna Doel started work as associate director of livestock for MOFGA Certification Services LLC in March.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on December 01, 2007
We were fortunate to have the great help of Grace Keown in the Fair office last summer.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on December 01, 2007
After coordinating the countless logistics of five Common Ground Country Fairs, Barbara Luce has decided to move on to new experiences and challenges.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on December 01, 2007
MOFGA is conducting a search for the next director of our signature event, the Common Ground Country Fair.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2007
 Our educational programs assistant Gemma Laser has taken an exciting AmeriCorps position – and we are happy to have April Boucher, another bright young woman, stepping into the position.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2007
 Tina Wilcoxson is the new board member of MOFGA Certification Services LLC. Wilcoxson, of South Portland, grew up in a Northern Maine farming community as part of a large family of potato growers.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2006
MOFGA now has two people working on marketing issues that affect organic farmers as part of our Agricultural Services team. Melissa White, currently MOFGA’s educational programs assistant, has begun working part-time as our organic marketing coordinator, and will transition to spending most of her time on this project after the Fair.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2006
We are very fortunate to have Abby Sadauckas as our new database manager. Sadauckas has taken the reins from Dawn Flanzer, who is going back to school. Thank you, Dawn, for all the great work you’ve done! We wish you success on your new path.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2006
MOFGA has hired three new staff members this spring. Vernon LeCount as Facilities Coordinator, C.J. Walke as our new Landscape Coordinator, and Michele Roy as a half-time Administrative Assistant.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2006
I have worked for MOFGA for a long time, but I usually let each anniversary of my starting date pass without celebration – because of mixed feelings. I really love the job of being the organic “extension” guy, and I have a great time working with all the MOFGA folks day in and day out. The mixed feelings occur only because I feel so young, and marking my anniversary with MOFGA exposes my true age.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on December 01, 2004
 MOFGA welcomes Melissa White as the new Educational Programs Assistant, and welcomes Ann Frank as our new Database Manager. Meanwhile, MOFGA says good-bye to Dawn Flanzer.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2004
 Stacie Whitney has been working as MOFGA’s intern this summer, focusing most of her energy on Common Ground Country Fair logistics. Stacie also works for Avena Botanicals in Rockland.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2004
 Kathy Newkirk is MOFGA Certification Service’s (MCS’s) new administrative assistant.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on December 01, 2003
On Saturday, December 13, [2003], Royal River Natural Foods at 443 U.S. Route 1 in Freeport will donate 5% of its sales to Laughing Stock Farm to help raise money to rebuild the barn lost in a fire in September.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on December 01, 2003
 MOFGA welcomed Andrew Marshall, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as its new Educational Programs Director this fall.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2003
In June, MOFGA welcomed Judi Gardner as its Membership & Development Director.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2003
 • Heather Fisher, MOFGA’s new Administrative Assistant
• Fair Director Barbara Luce
• Debbi Kipp, Educational Programs Assistant
• Sarah Bullett, MOFGA’s new journeyperson
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2003
Our best wishes and sincere appreciation go out to Susie O’Keeffe, who really got the ball rolling on all of MOFGA’s organizational development work.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on June 01, 2002
 Mary Yurlina, MOFGA Certification Services, LLC, Coordinator, holds a B.S. in Conservation and Applied Ecology and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on March 01, 2002
 Fourteen years ago, Susan Pierce decided to leave the sun of California and return to the state of her childhood. Back in Maine, she began a new career as Director of a small, organic festival in Windsor, Maine. In the 10 years of Susan's turn as Common Ground Country Fair Director, attendance grew to upwards of 50,000 people and the Fair abandoned its transient past for a permanent home in Unity.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 2001
 MOFGA was extremely fortunate to have the volunteer help of Kelley Glidden this summer. Kelley, a third-year law student at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in Tucson, spent two and a half months working with the MOFGA staff on a wide range of projects.
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Posted by MOFGApedia Editor on September 01, 1999
 The Common Ground Country Fair office is grateful for the help of summer intern Kristin Stone. We couldn’t have managed all of the mailings, phone calls, volunteer registration forms, writing, editing, cleaning, special events and, yes, wet diapers without her!
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