PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 26, 2025
Maine’s farms are in the news for all the wrong reasons — federal funding freezes, grant funding cuts, concerns over proposed tariffs and the end of a USDA program that helped schools purchase directly from farms. While support from our communities, media and members of Congress is important in the wake of these announcements, we need the same level of support against proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Food Assistance Program (SNAP), which will have dire consequences for Maine farmers and residents. ~ Jamie Cermak, Belfast Community Co-op, and Noami Brautigam and James Gagne, Second Frost Farm in Monroe