photo courtesy of Black Bear Food Guild’s Facebook Page

photo courtesy of Black Bear Food Guild’s Facebook Page

photo courtesy of Black Bear Food Guild’s Facebook Page

photo courtesy of Black Bear Food Guild’s Facebook Page

photo courtesy of Black Bear Food Guild’s webpage on the University of Maine’s website

photo courtesy of Black Bear Food Guild’s Facebook Page

The Black Bear Food Guild has been located at Rogers Farm since 1994.  It was established by Sustainable Agriculture students at the University of Maine at Orono to gain more hands-on learning.  They grow a selection of over forty types of MOFGA-certified vegetables and perennial and annual flowers on their two acres of land and a cover crop on one acre.  For $405 they offer full shares of a CSA program.  The half shares cost $220.  The sixty participants in the Black Bear Food Guild’s CSA program pick up their shares on either Mondays or Thursdays from 4 to 6 p.m.  Extra produce is sold at the farm stand at Rogers Farm and at the Orono Farmers’ Market.