ITEM
Jean Hay, interviewed by James Moreira, September 24, 2000 at the Common Ground Fair.
Identifier
NA 2630 (local)
Date
September 24 2000 (Date created)
Summary
Hay talks about her farm in Dixmont where they grow organic pick-your-own raspberries; her previous farm in Blue Hill; what inspired her to move to Maine in 1971; farm years in Maine during the 1970s without electricity or plumbing; her emergence into the organic farming market in the 1980s; her friendship with Scott and Helen Nearing; preparing her Dixmont farm to grow organic produce; deciding cycles of crop rotation; mixed reactions of locals to the back-to-the-land crowd; and her history of involvement with MOFGA and the Common Ground Fair.
Language
English (Languages)
Other Subject Headings
Organic farms (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Agricultural fairs (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Back-to-the-land movements (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Rural life (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Nonprofit organizations (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Outsiders (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Temporal Coverage
circa 1970 - 2000
Geographic Coverage
Dixmont, Maine (Geonames)
Blue Hill, Maine (Geonames)
Unity, Maine (Geonames)
