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Welcome WERU listeners who heard the Thanksgiving Day special featuring Aaron Bell and Carly DelSignore of Tide Mill Farm in Edmunds. You may listen here or download the program for your iPod or other audio listening device using the link below (yep, for free).

For more information on Tide Mill Farm, please visit HERE.

MOOMilk is beginning to become available. Click HERE for the MOOMilk page. The most up-to-date information probably is on FaceBook.

This podcast features a talk University of Maine graduate Sarah Bigney gave on Thursday September 25, 2008:

“The Two Fair Trade Movements: Bridging the Divide Between Buying Coffee and Repealing NAFTA”

Sarah Bigney is organizer at the Maine Fair Trade Campaign, a statewide coalition of 50 organizations for building a just, sustainable, and democratic economy. (Check out their site for information on current campaigns, including the one to oppose the Panama Free Trade Agreement.)

This talk was part of the Fall 2008 Thursday controversy series sponsored by the Marxist-Socialist Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, and co-sponsored by the Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC) and Campus Activities and Events, with support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University.

Additional photos (described in the talk) are posted below the fold.

(These will be updated with more descriptions if they become available.)

The primary purpose of the Good Life Center is to preserve Forest Farm, the Nearing’s last hand-built homestead of. Its mission is to “perpetuate the philosophies and lifeways promoted and exemplified by Helen and Scott Nearing, two of America’s most inspirational practitioners of simple, frugal and purposeful living.”

Bob St. Peter and his family are now charged with the care of Forest Farm. Bob’s talk follows the one given at the Peace and Justice Center’s first Harvest Supper seventeen years ago by Helen Nearing herself.

Bob discusses the incredible journey through life recorded by Helen and Scott in their writings. While many people are familiar with the Good Life and Maple Sugar books, Bob focuses for a bit on Scott’s voluminous but nowadays less-read political work–still vibrant and applicable to today’s world. Bob also raises issues of food consciousness and food justice that are integral to the Nearing legacy.

This program was broadcast on WERU Community Radio on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2006.

“Wendell Berry has said that ‘eating is an agricultural act.’ I would agree, and add that it can also be an act of resistance…” -–Bob St. Peter

24 min; 8 MB; 48 kbps mp3; download link here ->

Russ covers some interesting ground about the future of world energy resources and why the need for local organic agriculture will grow boundlessly into the future.

26 min; 6 MB; 32 kbps mp3; download link here ->