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Chef Nicholas Leiss has been attracted to the kitchen since he was a little kid on a stepstool cooking beside his grandmother. His passion for...

Gordon the Clydesdale horse has been roped in to help plough between the rows of Churton Vineyard in Marlborough. It's a return to the old ways and, according to vineyard owner Sam Weaver, it is helping his vines. He has the help of a Frenchwoman who learnt the skill on her family's St Emilion vineyard.

Read Article REGION — Despite recent rainfall, Franklin and Androscoggin counties have remained in drought.gov’s abnormally dry conditions category for three consecutive weeks. Livestock farmers and hay producers are crossing their fingers that Maine doesn’t cross into the more dry thresholds this season as they still feel the effects of last fall’s severe drought conditions. According to drought.gov, 55.7% of Maine is currently in the abnormally dry condition with 100% of Franklin and...

Brian Futhey of Stone Meadow Farm in Woodward, Pennsylvania, still remembers his “aha moment.” It was when he realized that the type of grassfed milk that his cows were producing on his 118-acre farm was also ideal for making artisan, raw milk cheese. “I was attending a Pasa (Sustainable Agriculture) conference around 2004 and a lightbulb went off in my head. My milk was special in the sense that it was all grass, I didn’t feed any grain,” Futhey said. “And it was ...