Food For Maine's Future - ME - Maine

We are advocates and activists for small farmers, farm workers and their patrons against corporate food monopolies. Company Overview Food for Maine's Future seeks to build a just, secure, sustainable and democratic food system to the benefit of all Maine farmers, communities, and the environment. Food for Maine?s Future (FMF) was formed in the fall of 2006 after a merger between two groups, GE Free Maine and the Independent Food Project. GE Free Maine was founded in 2004 as an off-shoot of the Institute for Social Ecology Biotechnology Project. In its first two years, GE Free Maine developed an extensive contact list, hosted numerous educational events and speaking tours and assisted three communities working to pass local resolutions against genetic engineering. The Independent Food Project (IFP) was formed in spring 2005 to improve food security through increased local production and skill building. IFP sponsored events to raise awareness about the problems with the industrial food system and to introduce the concept of food sovereignty. IFP also helped organize two community gardens, offered garden workshops and tours of IFP?s demonstration gardens, and organized a volunteer project to provide fresh vegetables to the food pantry in Blue Hill, Maine.

Food for Maine?s Future is part of a growing international movement for food sovereignty. Our work is informed and strengthened through relationships with our allies in La Via Campesina. FMF is working to build solidarity and alliances between rural people in Maine and around the world. We are pushing the local foods movement to incorporate issues like land reform, ending patents, and the need for political organizing to push back against the well-funded agribusiness lobby.