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A mother and three daughters pose around a dining room table. There are lace curtains and blue wall in the background and some dishes on the table in the foreground.

One of the first rooms Heather Gagne and her daughters began redecorating in their new home is the dining room, shown in the top photo. They have been busy repainting and making other updates. Raising a family in coastal Machias, Maine may sound lovely, but for Heather Gagne recent years proved stressful. There were few housing options in their Downeast community, and Heather was glad to find a rental home to…

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USDA Partners with One Small Farm to Make Enormous Impact

Deep beneath the cool waters of the largest estuary in the United States, rests a hidden world teeming with limitless possibilities. Chesapeake Bay is considered a national treasure, with a watershed stretching 64,000 square miles, touching six states, and impacting more than 16… [Read More]

10.19.2022

Business Food Supply Grants Local Foods Sustainable/Organic Foods Value Added

Clark Specialty Grains Processing Facility

Helping a Business Grow - From the Start

Clark Specialty Grains, LLC, of Gothenburg is a food grade specialty corn cleaning facility, specializing in non-GMO and organic corn, including blue corn, selling to chip companies across the United States. They needed to refinance their existing real estate and facility debt… [Read More]

08.06.2019

Food Supply