PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 9, 2026
This week the Wild Seed Project, a North Yarmouth organization dedicated to promoting and restoring native plants in Maine through sharing seeds, announced Alice Friberg will be its new executive director. Friberg began her career in planting as a small business owner, running an organic farm in Whitefield for 11 years raising both crops and livestock. She served on the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association’s board of directors for eight years as well. In 2014, she joined Fedco Seeds, a cooperatively-owned agricultural supply business in Clinton, where she worked as a department manager, marketing chair and chief financial officer.