Archive for OUR FARMERS

Atlantic Sea Farms

  Maine Kelp Helps Local Community​ In addition to providing our stores with incredible products like Sea-Chi and Fermented Seaweed Salad, Atlantic Sea Farms focuses on the effects of climate change in our Maine community. Read their inspiring mission statement: “Our founders created the first commercially viable seaweed farm in the United States in…

Support our Local Food System

From the beginning, Rosemont’s principal goal has been supporting Maine’s local food system. Fifteen years ago, when we opened our first market on Brighton Avenue, we would walk the rows of the Portland Farmer’s Market and invite farmers to sell us what was left from that day’s haul….

Celebrating Broadturn Farm (And Eggplant!)

We’re loving the eggplant this week from our farmer friends at Broadturn Farm in Scarborough, ME! Broadturn farmers John Bliss and Stacy Brenner are passionate about organic produce and flowers. In 2006, these former ‘suburbanites’  became tenant farmers of land owned and preserved by the Scarborough Land Trust. In 10…