Luscious and local

Farmers market season is in full swing, which makes it easy for Mainers to buy and eat locally grown, raised and harvested foods. The Eat Local Foods Coalition, a statewide nonprofit network of food, farm and community organizations, has made it even easier with its new Web site: www.eatmainefoods.org. It instructs consumers on how, why and where to buy Maine foods, and encourages families to spend at least $10 a week locally. The coalition states, if every Maine family spent $10 per week on Maine-produced food, purchased directly from the farmer, we’d keep an additional $100 million circulating in the state economy. No small potatoes.

Music to your mouth

Think chamber music is stuffy? Then you’ve never sat down for a brown-bag lunch at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill. The Hancock County Cultural Network will sponsor such a lunch at noon Wednesday, July 5. The free event will feature a brief talk on the history of Kneisel Hall, followed by a concert by young musicians. “We hope this informal event will attract a number of local folks as well as visitors who want to know more about Kneisel Hall,” Ellen Werner, the facility’s executive director, said. Participants are asked to pack a lunch, but coffee and tea will be available For information, contact Carolyn Hecker at 348-2535 or cahecker@media2.

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Smoothie move

Free smoothies will be on the menu at Dunkin’ Donuts throughout Maine from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Participating franchises will give 9-ounce samples of the fruit-yogurt blend, which is available in strawberry-banana, wildberry and mango passion fruit flavors.

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