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Joanna Linden, interviewed by Anu Dudley, September 24, 2004, at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine.

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Identifier
NA 3259 (local)
Date
September 24 2004 (Date created)
Summary

Linden discusses moving to Maine and the years she spent working with food cooperatives; how she helped initiate the Fedco Seed Company; her years working for Fedco; her work for MOFGA as one of the Food Coordinators at the Common Ground Fair for 10 years, including the fair’s use of organic foods & the organic food movement; being on the Board of MOFGA for 7 years as the liaison for the fair’s Steering Committee; she talks about internal decisions of the MOFGA board, including the decision to move the fair grounds from Windsor to Unity; her how her interest in Chinese medicine led her to become licensed in acupuncture and herbal medicine.

Creator and/or Contributor
Joanna Linden (interviewee), Anu Dudley (interviewer)
Language
English (Languages)
Other Subject Headings
Cooperatives (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Agricultural fairs (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Organic food movement (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Acupuncture (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Herbal medicine (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Maine Organic Farmers' and Gardeners' Association (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Temporal Coverage
before 2004 CE
Geographic Coverage
Unity, Maine (Geonames)
Windsor, Maine (Geonames)
Waterville, Maine (Geonames)
Canaan, Maine (Geonames)
Related Entities:
Joanna Linden (interviewee)
Anu Dudley (interviewer)
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