The Food & Dining section in today’s Press Herald includes a report on the winner of the Portland Trails recipe contest,
As a mother of two, a grandmother of four and a former sixth-grade teacher, Vesta Rand knows how to get kids excited about food. As an avid walker, she also knows what it takes to create portable eats.
So it’s hardly a surprise that her entry for Portland Trails’ first Trail Gourmet contest took top honors.
and an article about the gardening program at the Center for African Heritage in Falmouth,
Boulis Kodi treads lightly through a thriving garden patch, showing off a summer’s worth of hard work by Nuba Mountain refugees from Sudan.
“This is the sweet corn, and this is the tomatoes over here,” said Kodi, who is the farm manager for the Center for African Heritage garden project at Tidewater Farm, just down the road from the University of Maine Regional Learning Center.