BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 12, 2022
When Songbird Farms voluntarily ceased all sales and pulled its products from store shelves, April Turner started to worry. Turner’s small family homestead is in Freedom, just down the road from Songbird Farms which last month tested positive for high levels of forever chemicals in its soil and water. Now she’s wondering if she should have her land, which produces much of what her family eats, tested for the toxins. “I need to know if what we are eating is safe or if down the road we can have a little farm stand,” she said. “But once we do get tested, what can of worms does that open?” While there are federal indemnity programs currently available for dairy farmers, no such funding exists for vegetable farmers.