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Bonnie Rukin Miller, interviewed by Anu Dudley, September 22, 2001, at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine.

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Identifier
NA 2677 (local)
Date
September 22 2001 (Date created)
Summary

Miller discusses moving to Maine; her organic farm; running a farm school; creating a farm community; development of her farm; Sandhill Farms Day Camp; farm apprentices and farm managers; crops grown; pick-your-own organic strawberries; selling vegetables, flour made from their organically grown grain, and other products at farmer’s markets and the Common Ground Fair; her husband’s background and work in forestry; raising sheep for wool and meat; involvement in MOFGA and the Common Ground Fair; MOFGA as a community; financial aspects of farm life; and the future of MOFGA. 

Creator and/or Contributor
Bonnie Rukin Miller (interviewee), Anu Dudley (interviewer)
Language
English (Languages)
Other Subject Headings
Organic Farming (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Education (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Apprentices (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Community life (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Lambs (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Maine Organic Farmers' and Gardeners' Association (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Farmers' Markets (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Weaving (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Management (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Pick your own farms (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Temporal Coverage
1972 - 2001
Geographic Coverage
Somerville, Maine (Geonames)
Oregon, United States (Geonames)
Shelburne, Vermont (Geonames)
New Jersey, United States (Geonames)
Union, Maine (Geonames)
Palermo, Maine (Geonames)
Richmond, Maine (Geonames)
Litchfield, Maine (Geonames)
Penobscot, Maine (Geonames)
Steuben, Maine (Geonames)
Unity, Maine (Geonames)
Related Entities:
Bonnie Rukin Miller (interviewee)
Anu Dudley (interviewer)
Related Objects
First page of the transcript for NA 2677