Portland's outdoor farmer's market in Deering Oaks Park got off to a good start under a spring sky of bright blue painted with puffy clouds and pleasant sixty-degree temperatures. Daffodils and honey, chives, and bags of salad greens filled vendor tables. Local farm mainstays like pastured pork, chicken, raw-milk cheeses, and cream from Jersey cows prevailed as well, offered by such familiar vendors as Swallowtail, Thirty Acre, Sumner Valley, Summit Springs (great pastured eggs) and Fishbowl farms.
 
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Down East and the Camden-Rockport-Lincolnville Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to sponsor the Maine Dream Vacation Raffle. You and a companion could win an incredible six thousand dollar Maine dream vacation, and what's even better, all proceeds go to benefit the community service programs of Youthlinks (www.youthlinksonline.org). Visit www.mainedreamvacation.com to buy a raffle ticket & for more information (including the rules). Only fifty dollars a ticket and only five hundred tickets will be sold.
 
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Maine has an abundance of fresh seasonal produce — all you need to know is what to do with it. Lisa Turner, of Laughing Stock Farm in Freeport, has gathered more than one hundred recipes from Maine's top chefs, farmers, home cooks, and her own kitchen. From what to do with loads of leafy greens to how to cook hakurei turnips, this cookbook teaches how to eat locally — and eat well — all through the year.
 
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