Genetic testing is helping identify older varieties of Maine apples, and may promise more delicious, more diverse fruit in our future. COA professor Todd Little-Siebold and Laura Sieger ’16 are contributing to the project.
Family and computer science teacher Jennifer Crandall ’93 brings her Mount Desert Island High School students to College of the Atlantic Peggy Rockefeller Farms for lessons in healthy food systems and the human ecology of food.
College of the Atlantic ranks second in the country for best college farms, with organic crop production, humane livestock operations, and a farm-to-table ethos that sees increasing use of College-raised vegetables and meats in the dining hall each year.
A search for Maine’s disappearing heirloom apple varieties leads toCollege of the Atlantic history professor Todd Little-Siebold, an expert in all things apple.
At first, Adam Nordell ’05 wanted to play music for a living and Johanna Davis wanted to farm. Thanks to their operation of Songbird Farm, their folk/bluegrass duo Sassafrass Stomp, and a gradual change in outlook, they’re both happy as can be.
College of the Atlantic history professor and Maine apple expert Todd Little-Siebold helps heirloom identification efforts at the iconic Common Ground Country Fair.
The popular agricultural podcast features Birdsong Farm owner Matt Herbruck ’94 as he shares his experiences in engaging with start-up farmers markets, moving his life across the country, and more.
Environmental anthropologist, human ecologist, and food systems scholar Dr. Kourtney Collum is named the Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems at College of the Atlantic.
Raising her own heritage-breed pigs and using traditional practices culled through internships, workshops, and study, Becca Harvey ’16 explores the craft of preserving meat for her senior project.
USA Today asks, “Is urine diversion far-fetched?” No more than our separation of aluminum, glass and paper from landfill-bound trash, according to Rich Earth Institute co-founder Abraham Noe-Hays ’00.