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The 2010 Maine Farm Days will be at the Barker Farm in Leeds, Maine. Watch for more details.

Farm Market Vendors are encouraged to sign up to sell your produce. Download an Exhibit Space Contract

Maine Farm Days 2010

Pesticide Recertification Workshop Schedule

Barker Farm in Leeds, Maine

One credit awarded per workshop

Friday, August 20, 2010

10:00 AM Rick Kersbergen, Extension Educator, Waldo County - No-till Corn Production to Reduce Fertilizer & Herbicide Applications.
11:10 AM Dr. Anne Lichtenwalner, Extension Veterinarian - Ruminant Parasites: Treatment Considerations
12:20 PM Kathy Murray, Entomologist, Maine Department of Agriculture - Protecting Yourself and Your Animals from Mosquitoes and Ticks
1:30 PM Dr. David Handley, Extension Vegetable & Small Fruit Specialist - Sweet Corn IPM
2:40 PM Dr. Gary Anderson, Extension Livestock Specialist - Selecting and Using Disinfectants on the Farm

Saturday, August 21, 2010

10:00 AM Caragh Fitzgerald, Extension Educator, Kennebec County - Weed Walk and Identification Exercise
11:10 AM Dr. Mark Hutton, Extension Vegetable Specialist – Pumpkin & Squash Disease Management
12:20 PM Richard Brzozowski, Extension Educator, Cumberland County – Identifying garden insects, an interactive exercise

Continuing Education Pesticide Credits can be earned at the Pest Management classes offered on both Friday and Saturday

Click here for 2010 brochure Page one and here for Page two. A Farm Day folder will appear with two pictures, which are the two sides of the brochure. We experienced technical difficulties in obtaining an electronic version of the brochure this year. Please forgive the inconvenience.

Barker Farm, Inc., a fifth-generation farm owned and operated by David and Vicky Barker, is a dairy farm located in Leeds (Androscoggin County), Maine. They milk 110 Holstein dairy cattle and raise their own replacement animals. Vicky handles all aspects of the dairy herd, milking the animals daily and managing the herd health with assistance from David and their sons. David and his father handle the field work and all the maintenance issues that arise with managing 215 acres of high density grain corn and 175 acres of hay. The Barkers have done an exemplary job maintaining their land, water and animal resources in such a way as to have minimal detrimental impact on the environment.

The Barker Farm is at 9 Barker Rd. It is located in North Leeds just east of Rt. 106 and just north of where the railroad tracks cross Rt. 106 [also called the Leeds/Livermore Falls Rd].

To get to the farm, the Leeds Road [Rt. 106] leaves Rt. 133 and goes south to Barker Rd. and the Barker Farm. Or, Rt. 106 leaves Rt. 219 on Livermore Falls Road [Rt. 106] and goes north to the Barker Farm. Use Google for a good map. We will have a good one linked here soon.

The Maine Farm Days committee is busy planning this year's event. They are pictured here at a recent meeting at the Barker Farm.

Take a look at some of the pictures from the 2008 event on an attached page. Here is a brief article after the 2008 extravaganza . Click here.

I've moved the pictures so this page opens more quickly for people with slower internet service.