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Recent News

Wolfe’s Neck Center Opens New Campus Centerpiece – 5/12/23

Farming is a big CO2 emitter. But could it be a climate solution? Wolfe’s Neck is leading the charge – 5/12/23
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Milk Before Breakfast: Wolfe’s Neck Farm Showcases Sustainable Dairy Production – 3/4/22

Freeport farm gets $35 million to spread climate-friendly farming practices
10/10/2022

USDA awards $35 million to Wolfe’s Neck Center to spread climate-friendly farming
9/15/2022

Freeport agriculture nonprofit to lead $35M rollout of ‘climate smart’ farming practices
9/22/2022

Wolfe’s Neck Center receives $35 million federal grant to boost climate-smart agriculture
9/19/2022

$4M Research Facility Breaks Ground at Freeport Agricultural Education Center
3/10/2022

Press Releases

Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment Expands Campus with Opening of The Smith Center for Education & Research, a New Community Facility – 5/11/2023

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Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment to Lead Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture – 9/15/2022

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OpenTEAM Launches New Fellows Program to Equip Land Stewards and Food System Leaders With The Tools and Skills Needed to Drive Landscape Level Agricultural Transformation – 4/1/2022

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Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment Announces Construction of The Smith Center for Education and Research | Receives $2.5 Million in Federal Loan from USDA Rural Development – 3/9/2022

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Archive

Wolfe’s Neck Center gives students unique outdoor learning experience

April 19, 2021

Experience True Farm-to-Table Living on a Culinary Road Trip Through Coastal Maine

April 12, 2021

Amid COVID restrictions, Wolfe’s Neck offers Freeport kids breath of fresh air – and animals

March 23, 2021

Large Food Companies Are Looking to Lock Carbon in Soil as a Way to Meet Ambitious Emissions Goals

February 9, 2021

Yogurt maker Stonyfield wants to use data, not certification, to prove environmental benefit of its practices

January 31, 2020

Growers can use technology to alleviate climate change effects

January 30, 2020

UNH: Seaweed diet may make cows less greenhouse gassy

January 6, 2020

Slippery Salvation: Could Seaweed as Cow Feed Help Climate?

December 29, 2019

Moooove over hay, seaweed is the new feed

November 25, 2019

Buried Treasure: Taking Farm Sustainability to a New Level

October 31, 2019

Maine cow’s seaweed diet research could help climate change

October 30, 2019

Maine scientists to study seaweed’s effect on cow burps

October 28, 2019

Maine scientists are looking at using seaweed to get cows to burp less

October 28, 2019

Researchers leverage new grant to benefit climate, cows

October 17, 2019

Scientists Look To Seaweed To Help Cattle Lower Methane Emissions

October 16, 2019

The Farm Report: Episode 374 – Could Open Source Data Transform Agriculture?

October 9, 2019

Farmer-driven Platform to Help Mitigate Climate Change Celebrated in Freeport

October 9, 2019

Maine nonprofit launches global effort to help small farms cut greenhouse gas emissions

October 2, 2019

Stonyfield Launches OpenTEAM Platform to Promote Sustainable Farming

September 2019

How Changing Farming Techniques Can Help Slow Climate Change

September 17, 2019

Investment in Regenerative Agriculture Connects the Dots Between Soil and Plate

September 17, 2019

GreenBiz 350 Podcast – Episode 186: Bill Weihl calls for corporate climate activism; you’ll dig this new farm-data initiative

August 30, 2019

Regenerative Agriculture: 25 Things to Know Now

August 22, 2019

New England Groups Team Up to Fight Climate Change—With Tech and Soil

August 13, 2019

Wolfe’s Neck announces new initiative to improve soil health, combat climate change

August 2019

Wolfe’s Neck Farm Training Next Generation of Farmers
June 2019

Training our next generation of organic dairy farmers
June 2019

Youth in Agriculture: How Young People are Getting Involved with Farming in Maine
June 2019

‘Regenerative agriculture’: World-saving idea or food marketing ploy?
March 2019

Wolfe’s Neck to open new facility this spring to continue teaching Maine’s next generation of dairy farmers
January 2019

Farmer Training
August 2018

Maine Biz Giving Guide 2018

To See the Sea
Spring, 2018

Dairy Apprenticeship Grooms New Farmers
November, 2017

Wolfe’s Neck Farm to Become Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment
October, 2017

Wolfe’s Neck continues its mission, but changes name
October, 2017

New focus, new name for Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport
October, 2017

Wolfe’s Neck To Focus On Environment, ‘Regenerative Farming’
October, 2017

The nonprofit Wolfe’s Neck Farm refines mission for a new generation
October, 2017

How Wolfe’s Neck Farm is combating climate change
October, 2017

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Harry Kimball

hkimball@wolfeneck.org | (207) 865-4469 x116

 

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