Our 2023-2024 Annual Report is here!
We are convening organizations, networks, groups, and individuals to catalyze collective action towards a thriving Maine food system that is equitable, just, and regenerative.
Equity and Collective Power.
Healthy food is a human right that unleashes human potential. Systemic racism and corporate consolidation limit equitable access to farmland, fishing, and food. Sharing power and honoring all voices through collective decision-making leads to community-centered solutions.
Networking Differently.
To create systemic change, we need to expand and diversify participation in food systems organizing. Convening and engaging diverse stakeholders across Maine’s entire food system, we leverage the power of networks to act collectively toward a shared vision.
Systems Thinking.
Maine’s food system is vast, complex, and interconnected. Trusting relationships, synergy, and transparency within the system supports the parts for a stronger whole.
We stand in solidarity with Wabanaki food, land, and water sovereignty.
We occupy the land, work, farm, and fish on the unceded territory of the Wabanaki People. We welcome and foster relationships with the tribes who sustainably stewarded this land for millennia. We acknowledge the history of violence and the many forms of taking that resulted from Colonization. We commit to supporting the efforts of Wabanaki People to restore their cultural lifeways and relationship to this beautiful place we now call Maine.
May this acknowledgement guide the long journey of building trust and integrating Maine’s food system projects with statewide truth and reconciliation efforts.