Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society
Thank you for visiting!
 
The MESAS website offers resources to learn about sustainable agriculture in Maine. We hope you enjoy exploring our site, and we hope you will contact us if you'd like to learn more.
 
 
MISSION
 
The Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society's mission is to explore, develop and promote agricultural systems and practices that allow Maine farmers to retain a greater share of consumer expenditures for farm products. This will be accomplished by developing methods to reduce the need for purchased inputs and by adding value to farm production.
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NEW! Winter Wheat, Spring Wheat, and Hybrid Corn variety trials results from Vermont and Maine posted here.
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We recently hosted our first Farm Business Skills Weekend Retreat, March 9-11, 2012, in Bangor.
The  Farm  Business  Skills  Weekend  Retreat     
Friday  evening,  March  9th     thru    
Sunday  noon,  March  11th
The  Farm  Business  Skills  Weekend  Retreat     
Friday  evening,  March  9th     thru    
Sunday  noon,  March  11th
The  Farm  Business  Skills  Weekend  Retreat     
Friday  evening,  March  9th     thru    
Sunday  noon,  March  11th

Click below for the program announcement.
Farm Business Skills Weekend Retreat
Stay tuned for a recap. 

We are considering running a similar program in the future. Please let us know if you are interested in participating or have any questions. 
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Maine Ag Trades Show 2012

This January, for our annual education program at the Trades Show in Augusta, we featured farmer and processor / distributor panels on the topic of "How Do We Grow From Here?" as well as a brief presentation on specialty crop grants. Click below for more information about the program.

And special thanks to Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and her dedicated staff for joining us to provide updates on federal agricultural programs and policies!
MESAS-Trades-Show-Program-2012
Reducing the need for purchased inputs 

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Adding value to farm production

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Maine farmers retaining a greater share of consumer dollars.