Press about The Grange

The Halcyon Grange #345 has gotten some excellent press in the local newspapers, online, and through our Maine State Grange website.  You can read some of them here – take a look!

The Blue Hill Co-op and Cafe website: The Harvest Herald: “The Halcyon Grange #345” – Autumn 2016: http://bluehill.coop/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/HarvestHerald_Autumn_web.pdf

Maine State Grange website: “Halcyon Grange Hosts Migrant Health Program” – August 24th, 2016: http://mainestategrange.org/?p=78775

Maine State Grange website: “Halcyon Grange Shines!” – August 2nd, 2016: http://mainestategrange.org/?p=78668

Penobscot Bay Press: “Halcyon Grange Builds a Community With, and Beyond, Farmers” –  July 28th, 2016: http://weeklypacket.com/news/2016/aug/1/halcyon-grange-builds-a-community-with-and-beyond/#.V6E2caslcy5

Bangor Daily News: “Halcyon Grange to present third talk in New American Farmers Series” – Feb 7th, 2016: http://bangordailynews.com/community/halcyon-grange-talk-3-in-winter-ed-series-new-american-farmers/

Bangor Daily News: “Halcyon Grange Talk #1 in 2015-2016 Educational Series: Seaweed Class” – November 6th, 2015: http://bangordailynews.com/community/halcyon-grange-talk-1-in-2015-2016-educational-series-seaweed-class/

The Portland Press Herald: “Community Kitchens Learn from Belfast’s Coastal Farms and Foods Collapse” -October 12th, 2015: http://bangordailynews.com/2015/10/12/homestead/community-kitchens-learn-from-belfasts-coastal-farms-and-foods-collapse/

The Portland Press Herald: “The state of the Grange in Maine: Shuttering doors or revitalizing an institution?”- October 8th, 2015: http://www.pressherald.com/2015/10/18/the-state-of-the-grange-in-maine/

The Ellsworth American: Halcyon Grange Carries on Old Tradition – October 6, 2015: http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/more-headlines/halcyon-grange-carries-on-old-tradition

The Bangor Daily News: “Old grange, new plans: Blue Hill farming organization gearing up to open a community kitchen” – April 26, 2014: http://bangordailynews.com/2014/04/26/news/hancock/old-grange-new-plans-blue-hill-farming-organization-gearing-up-to-open-a-community-kitchen/

Maine State Grange website: Halcyon Grange Unanimous in Support of Micro-Dairies -March 2nd, 2014: http://mainestategrange.org/?p=7688

Betsy Garrold of MOFGA: “The Grange Revival in Maine” – 2014: http://www.mofga.org/Publications/MaineOrganicFarmerGardener/Winter20142015/GrangeRevival/tabid/2888/Default.aspx

Article by David Gumpert: The Complete Patient: “An Old-Fashioned Maine Pig Roast Celebrates State-Wide Push for Food Sovereignty;” FSMA Worries – Oct 21st, 2013: http://www.davidgumpert.com/an-old-fashioned-maine-pig-roast-celebrates-state-wide-push-for-food-sovereignty-fsma-worries

Penobscot Bay Press: “Halcyon Grange Harvests Goodwill at Annual Supper” – November 1st, 2012: http://dining639.rssing.com/browser.php?indx=4268510&item=427

 

Our Worthy Master, Heather Retberg, of Quill’s End Farm in Penobscot, has contributed to The Maine State Grange page in a section titled: “View from the Farm” which can be seen here:

Oct 2016: “Pondering Fungibility” – http://mainestategrange.org/?p=79006

Sept 2016: “It was all LDRP” – http://mainestategrange.org/?p=78894
Aug 2016: “Sweet Milkweed Air and Raspberry Rapture”http://mainestategrange.org/?p=78710
July 2016: “You say goodbye, I say hello” – http://mainestategrange.org/?p=78613
June 2016: “Change with a capital C” – http://mainestategrange.org/?p=78474
May 2016: “Spring urges are everywhere” – http://mainestategrange.org/?p=78328
April 2016: “Experiencing the Spring drama of opposites”–  http://mainestategrange.org/?p=78207
March 2016: “King winter is really here”–  http://mainestategrange.org/?p=77964
February 2016: “King Winter is really here” – http://mainestategrange.org/?p=77922
January 2016: “Moving toward the light” – http://mainestategrange.org/?p=77838
December 2015: “Moving toward the light” – http://mainestategrange.org/?p=77723
Oct 2015: “It’s time to get ready” – http://mainestategrange.org/?p=77433