How large is the Maine farm that was a major project of the Libra Foundation?
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Libra Foundation The Libra Foundation is among the largest charitable organizations in the state of Maine. Major projects include Pineland Farms, the Maine Winter Sports Center, and The MaineHealth Raising Readers program. The October Corporation is an affiliated organization with real estate holdings on behalf of the Libra Foundation.
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Pineland Farms Pineland Farms is a 5,000 acre farm and recreational property in the eastern part of New Gloucester, Maine that is the site of the former Pineland Hospital and Training Center.
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Labora Farms Labora Farms was founded as a project with the help of the Northern Ugandan Social Action Fund (NUSAF), a government organization in Uganda with $100 million of funding from the World Bank. The goal of NUSAF is to help local communities in the 18 districts of northern Uganda that have been ravaged by conflict over the last 20 years. This money is given directly to members of the community so they can invest in infrastructure and training for long-term development.
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Balloon Farm (Frankfort, New York) Balloon Farm is a historic home located at Frankfort in Herkimer County, New York. It includes the Gates-Myers Residence, built in 1878. It is an imposing, nearly square, three-story eclectic Late Victorian dwelling built of dimension lumber above a cut-stone foundation.
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Spring Hill Farm (Lebanon, New Hampshire) Spring Hill Farm is a historic farm at 263 Meriden Road in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The farm includes 91.5 acre of land consisting of fields and woodlands, and a farm complex containing a main house, barn, and other smaller outbuildings. The main house is a 2 ⁄ -story brick structure built c. 1799, and a barn constructed c. 1929 but incorporating an early 19th-century structure, as well as lumber salvaged from other period barns. The property is also notable for its ownership by Maurice Downes, a well-educated farmer who brought improvements in productivity to the area. The farm is one of a small number of extant farms in Lebanon.
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Damariscotta, Maine Damariscotta ( ) is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,218 at the 2010 census. A popular tourist resort area, the towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle are linked by the Main Street bridge over the Damariscotta River, forming the "Twin Villages". The name Damariscotta is an Indian name meaning "river of little fish".
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Kibby Wind Power Project Kibby Wind Power Project is a wind farm on Kibby Mountain in Franklin County, Maine, United States.
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Maine Heritage Policy Center The Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC) is a free-market think tank located in Portland, Maine. According to its mission statement, the MHPC is "a research and educational organization whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise; limited, constitutional government; individual freedom; and traditional American values–all for the purpose of providing public policy solutions that benefit the people of Maine." The organization has an associated media outlet, "The Maine Wire."
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The Norlands The Norlands (also known as the Israel Washburn Homestead) is a historic building on Norlands Road in Livermore, Maine, United States. It was owned by Israel Washburn and his descendants.
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Common Ground Country Fair The Common Ground Country Fair is a fair in Unity, Maine sponsored by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA). The fair began in 1977 in Litchfield, Maine. In 1981, it moved to Windsor, Maine and in 1996, MOFGA purchased 200 acres in Unity, Maine, where the fair now takes places yearly. The fair "celebrates organic living, farming and growing," and all the food sold at the event must be organic. The fair regularly hosts 50,000 to 60,000 people.
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Littlefield River The Littlefield River is a 3.8 mi tributary of the Middle Branch Mousam River in southern Maine. Via the Middle Branch and the Mousam River, its waters flow to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Alna, Maine Alna is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 709 at the 2010 census. Home to the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum, Alna includes the early mill village of Head Tide, noted for its historic architecture.
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Fork Factory Brook Fork Factory Brook is a 135-acre (55 ha) historic site, open space reserve, and agricultural reserve located in Medfield, Massachusetts. The reserve, managed by the land conservation non-profit organization The Trustees of Reservations, is notable for its wetlands, ledges, 300-year-old hayfields, and ruins of a 19th-century pitchfork mill for which the property is named. Fork Factory Brook offers 1.5 mi of trails and former woods roads available for hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, and cross country skiing. The property is a spur link in the 200 mi Bay Circuit Trail system and is part of a larger area of protected open space including the abutting Rocky Woods preserve, also managed by The Trustees of Reservations.
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Perkins Arboretum The Perkins Arboretum (128 acres; 51.2 hectares) is the Colby College arboretum, located at 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive in Waterville, Maine, United States. It is used for teaching and research, but its trails are also open to the public.
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Louis Cabot House The Louis Cabot House is a historic house on Windmill Hill Road in Dublin, New Hampshire. Built in 1887, this 3.5 story Shingle style house was the centerpiece of a gentleman farmer's estate of some 2000 acre established by Louis Cabot, whose family manufactured Cabot Stain. The house is built atop a knoll with views of Mount Monadnock; the property also includes a period barn that was one of the largest ever built in Dublin.
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WHPF WHPF (88.1 FM) was a radio station licensed to Pittston Farm, Maine, United States. The station was owned by Light of Life Ministries, Inc.
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Springdale Farm (Burnham, Maine) Springdale Farm is a historic farm property on Horseback Road in Burnham, Maine. The 100 acre farm property includes a virtually intact 1870s farm complex with a period connected farmhouse and barn. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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Haley Farm State Park Haley Farm State Park is a public recreation area that preserves Colonial-era farmland as open space in the town of Groton, Connecticut. The site of the state park once formed part of the lands granted to Governor John Winthrop and later became a dairy farm. The park's 267 acre are connected to the adjacent Bluff Point State Park by way of a pedestrian bridge over railroad tracks. Park activities are restricted to bicycling and walking. The park is managed by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
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Robert Frost Farm (Ripton, Vermont) The Robert Frost Farm, also known as the Homer Noble Farm, is a National Historic Landmark in Ripton, Vermont. It is a 150 acre farm property off Vermont Route 125 in the Green Mountains where American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) lived and wrote in the summer and fall months from 1939 until his death in 1963. The property, historically called the Homer Noble Farm, includes a nineteenth-century farmhouse and a rustic wooden writing cabin (where Frost often stayed). The property is now owned by Middlebury College. The grounds are open to the public during daylight hours.
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Robert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire) The Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire is a two-story, clapboard, connected farm built in 1884. It was the home of poet Robert Frost from 1900 to 1911. Today it is a New Hampshire state park in use as a historic house museum. The property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Robert Frost Homestead.
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Living energy farm Living Energy Farm, or "LEF," is a zero fossil fuel intentional community of four adult members, some interns, plus at least a couple of kids (as of 2017) on 127 acres in rural Louisa County, Virginia. The farm is a Community in Dialogue with the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. Like nearby Twin Oaks Community and Acorn Community, LEF is egalitarian and income-sharing.
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Groton Wind Power Project Groton Wind Power Project a 48-megawatt wind farm, also known as Groton Wind Farm was constructed in 2012 in Groton, New Hampshire in the northeast United States. Owned by Iberdrola Renovables, it is the third major wind-power installation in the state of New Hampshire. Power is being sold to NSTAR under a power purchase agreement, and will go to the Boston area.