(READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN HERE) Nuestros amigos del comité de MOFGA mantienen una lucha contra el uso de sustancias conocidas como PFAS. Estos se han utilizado ampliamente desde la década de 1950 en productos que van desde el envasado de alimentos hasta la espuma contra incendios. Las PFAS se han reconocido […]
MOFGA’s 2020 Common Ground Country Fair had to go virtual this year due to the COVID19 pandemic. The Bangor and MOFGA committees rose to the occasion and created a video where they could share what they learned during the December 2019 delegation to El Salvador. Here’s their video: Please check all the other […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) From september 21st to september 23rd, the Maine Organic Farmers And Gardeners Association (MOFGA) held their annual Country Fair. This year they were kind enough to invite Luis Avilés, a member of the Popular Movement of Organic Farming (MOPAO, in Spanish) to talk about his experience as an organic farmer in San […]
Stong Interest in Local Organic Foods in El Salvador By the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee Interest in organic farming and gardening and in permaculture is strong in El Salvador. That was one of the principle lessons that four members of the MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee learned while visiting our sister organizations and other groups […]
To Whom It May Concern: The MOFGA-El Salvador Sistering Committee is concerned with the U.S. government’s actions on the second Millennium Challenge Corporation Funds. We are worried that this will be used against the current policy of purchasing Salvadoran non-transgenic seeds distributed as part of the Family Agriculture Plan by El Salvador’s Ministry of […]
MOFGA, the Maine Organic Farmers and Garderners Associacion, is sistered with the Chalatenango Cripdes regional branch the CCR and CORDES. Adopted by MOFGA’s Board of Directors – April 6, 2014 MOFGA Mission Statement: The purpose of the Association is to help farmers and gardeners: grow organic food, fiber and other crops; protect the environment; recycle […]
Dear Sister Cities members, To commemorate Sister Cities 25th Anniversary, the Sister Cities Committee is creating a book about Sister Cities’ history with testimonies and stories from U.S. committees and our Salvadoran partners. We need your contributions to make this book possible. Here are some suggestions to get you started writing: Write about how and […]
MOFGA’s El Salvador Sistering Committee maintains a relationship between MOFGA (the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association) and two Salvadoran grassroots organizations—CCR and CORDES—working toward sustainable agriculture. The committee explores issues such as organic certification, free trade, marketing, etc., that affect farmers in both countries. Several delegations from Maine have visited El Salvador, and delegates […]
From the Fair Trade Delegation, March 2008: Woven into many of USESSC’s sistering relationships are ‘sisters’ working in the North to promote the goods created by co-operatives in our sistered communities in El Salvador. Such co-operatives are a natural part of daily life in the organized communities of CRIPDES, part of an economic model that […]
This hand-picked and processed coffee from along the cool pine-shaded slopes of the Chalatenango province of El Salvador, near the Honduras border. It arrives to your cup through a special collaboration between the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), Madison-based Just Coffee and the farming families of the Ereguán Coffee Collective. Shared Values The […]