Friday, August 21 and Saturday, August 22
a part of the KCSWCD website
page updated 07/02/2009
The 2009 MFDays are scheduled and being planned.
The 2009 Maine Farm Days will be on Friday and Saturday, August 21st and 22nd. It will be at the Barker Farm in Leeds, Maine. JUST 2 MONTHS AWAY....
Farm Market Vendors are encouraged to sign up to sell your produce. Download an Exhibit Space Contract below on this page.
Presentations will be given from groups like:
-Androscoggin Land Trust
-Maine Farmland Protection
-Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation District
Continuing Education Pesticide Credits can be earned at the Pest Management classes offered on both Friday and Saturday.
As we know more about plans, they will be posted here.
Take a look at this year's Maine Farm Days poster by clicking here.
The 2009 brochure is complete. Click here for a copy.
Barker Farm, Inc., a fifth-generation farm owned and operated by David and Vicky Barker, is a conventional dairy farm located in Leeds (Androscoggin County), Maine. They milk 110 Holstein dairy cattle and raise their own replacement animals. Vicky handles all aspects of the dairy herd, milking the animals daily and managing the herd health with assistance from David and their sons. David and his father handle the field work and all the maintenance issues that arise with managing 215 acres of high density grain corn and 175 acres of hay. The Barkers have done an exemplary job maintaining their land, water and animal resources in such a way as to have minimal detrimental impact on the environment.
The Barker Farm is at 9 Barker Rd. It is located in North Leeds just east of Rt. 106 and just north of where the railroad tracks cross Rt. 106 [also called the Leeds/Livermore Falls Rd].
To get to the farm, the Leeds Road [Rt. 106] leaves Rt. 133 and goes south to Barker Rd. and the Barker Farm. Or, Rt. 106 leaves Rt. 219 on Livermore Falls Road [Rt. 106] and goes north to the Barker Farm. Use Google for a good map. We will have a good one linked here soon.
If you want to display or be one of the vendors, click here and download an Exhibit Space Contract. Prices remained the same as 2008.
The Maine Farm Days committee is busy planning this year's event. They are pictured here at a recent meeting at the Barker Farm.
There are only about 100 days to go until 2009 Maine Farm Days kicks off.
Take a look at some of the pictures from the 2008 event on an attached page. Here is a brief article after the 2008 extravaganza . Click here.
See you in August!!! --------------------------------------
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Click here for some pictures from the 2008 extravaganza.
I've moved the pictures so this page opens more quickly for people with slower internet service.
To return to the Andy-Valley SWCD website click here
For more information on the 2009 Maine Farm Days contact:
Jane Heikkinen
AVSWCD
PO Box 1938
254 Goddard Road
Lewiston, ME 04241-1938
207-753-9400 ext. 3
or e-mail at jane.heikkinen@me.nacdnet.net
or
Ben Blackwell
959 Preble Ave.
Madison, ME 04950
314-0879
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