Keywords: crops
Item 1012
30th Maine Regiment, Drum Corps, 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Media: Photographic print
Item 13198
Crop sprayer, Caribou, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Fair Season: Crops, Livestock, and Entertainment
Agricultural fairs, intended to promote new techniques and better farming methods, have been held since the early 19th century. Before long, entertainments were added to the educational focus of the early fairs.
Exhibit
Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Threshing peas, ca. 1955
"… grown in rotation with potatoes as an alternative crop to help replenish nutrients to the soil. In the picture, pea vines are being threshed to…"
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's First Grist Mill
"The grist mill allowed the first crops of wheat and corn to be milled into flour, which greatly increased the kinds of food the settlers ate, as well…"
Story
Wabanaki Sovereignty
by Mali Obomsawin and Lokotah Sanborn
Bomazeen Land Trust, renewing and resuming Wabanaki caretaking and stewardship roles
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
