Meeting: Appleton Creamery

Our next meeting will take place at Appleton Creamery in Appleton, which is mid-MidCoast, just west of Rockport.

Caitlin says: “In an effort to get more members to attend Guild meetings, I will fire the wood oven and make pizzas for lunch at our meeting here in June! Members should bring their favorite pizza topping…! Should be a fun time, and if it’s raining like it was last year, the oven will keep us warm…”

Meeting: Sunset Acres, Brooksville

Our May meeting took place at

Sunset Acres
769 Bagaduce Road, Brooksville, ME 04617

on Monday, May 10th at 10am. Brooksville is south of Castine on the Penobscot Bay side of the Blue Hill Peninsula.

Ag Day At The Legislature 2010

Maine Dairy Princesses in front of the Guild Booth at Ag Day at the Legislature

Maine Dairy Princesses in front of the Guild Booth at Ag Day at the Legislature

It was a wet Wednesday as Maine’s food producer representatives set up displays in the hall of flags in the Maine State House to meet and feed the Legislators as they cycled in and out of meetings and sessions. I had plenty of cheese donations, and everyone who passed our table stopped and said, “oh, I LOVE cheese!” before diving into our samples. Barbara Skapa from Echo Ridge Creamery arrived midway through to bring more samples and give me some assistance.
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