SBCA News
2024
- “Angus King impressed by Wales farm operated by Somali Farmers” by Steve Collins, Sun Journal, May 28, 2024.
- “Photo Album: Blessing the growing season in Wales” Sun Journal, May 16, 2024.
- “Business Leaders: Muhidin Libah is cultivating farms, a nonprofit and Maine’s Somali Bantu community” by William Hall, Mainebiz, March 18, 2024.
- “Face Time: Isha Kasai shares with children her passion for cooking, gardening, farm-to-table eating” by Kendra Caruso, Sun Journal, February 25, 2024.
2023
- “Central-Maine Corn Is the Star Ingredient In This Dish at Portland’s Regards” Virginia M. Wright, Down East Magazine, November 2023.
- “Somali Bantu community and Mi’kmaq Nation build ties with inaugural food exchange” by Ari Snider, Maine Public, September 29, 2023.
- “A Somali Bantu refugee farmer thrives in Maine” by Jocelyn Ruggiero, Boston Globe, August 1, 2023.
2022
- “Lewiston, ME: A New Crop” by Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us Podcast, October 12, 2022.
- “Bountiful: Somali Bantu farm in Wales reaping a harvest” by Christopher Wheelock, Sun Journal, September 18, 2022.
- “Somali community celebrates new farm, planting season” by Christopher Wheelock, Sun Journal, May 13, 2022.
- “Lewiston’s Somali Bantu association moves into larger quarters” by Laurie Schreiber, Mainebiz, March 21, 2022.
- “Land purchase part of local farmland conservation effort” by Josephine E. Moore The Register-Herald March 18, 2022.
2021
- “We’re trying to recreate the lives we had: the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers” by Audrea Lim, The Guardian, February, 25, 2021.
- “Maine’s Somali Bantus Are Reenvisioning American Farming” by Katy Kelleher, Down East Magazine, August 2021.
- “First Person: The Somali refugees planting a new life in the United States” by Daniel Dickinson, UN News, July 4, 2021.
2020
- “Somali Bantu Community Association Finds Dream Farm – Little Jubba Central Maine Agrarian Commons” by Ashley Bahlkow, Agrarian Trust, June 23, 2020.
- “Maine Voices: Want to help remedy racial inequity in Maine? Here are places to start” by Catherine Besteman and Joseph N. Jackson, Portland Press Herald, June 15, 2020.
- “Maine Initiatives awards $516,920 to grassroots organizations responding to COVID-19” by Central Maine News, June 14, 2020.
- “New American, Native American business co-op efforts in Maine get USDA boost” by Staff, MaineBiz, January 17, 2020.
- “Twelfth Annual Food Sovereignty Prize honors the Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine and the All Nepal Peasants’ Federation” by Andrew Bartlett, US Food Sovereignty Alliance, October 16, 2020.
2019
- “Voices from the Field: Immigrants, Collaboration, and Co-ops Revive a Maine Town” by Jonah Fertig-Burd, Non-Profit Quarterly, October 15, 2019.
- “Finding a market: Farmers find ways to grow a profit” by Maureen Milliken, MaineBiz, June 10, 2019.
2017
- “Four Maine Nonprofits Receive First Quarter Grants from Androscoggin Bank’s MainStreet Foundation” by Marnie Grumbach, Bangor Daily News, April 17, 2017.
- “In one town, how Mainers and new immigrants learned to coexist- until Trump” by Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, March 6, 2017.
2016
- “Somali-American Man to Donald Trump: ‘I Am No Danger to the Community'” by Sameer Rao, Colorlines, August 8, 2016.
- “Mainers defend Somali neighbors against Trump” by Brian MacQuarrie and Vivian Wang, Boston Globe, August 6, 2016.
- “In Lewiston, a Cosmic Event” by Gerry Boyle, Colby Magazine, Spring 2016.
- “Author shares work on tracking Somalis’ journey” Sun-Journal, Lewiston, ME, April 27, 2016.
- “The Power of a Story: Immigration in Maine” by Jenna Farineau, Odyssey, April 26, 2016.
- “The 2016 Maine Sunday Telegram Source Awards” Maine Sunday Telegram/Portland Press Herald, April 6, 2016.
- “Growing Trust” a video about the Somali Bantu Farming Program by the Global Maine Collective, February 2016.
2015
- “Somali Bantus Celebrate 10 Years in Lewiston” December 20, 2015, Lewiston Sun-Journal.
- “Somalia: The Roots of Crisis” an interview with Dr. Catherine Bateson about the Bantus of Maine, WMPG, Safe Space Radio, December 14, 2015.
- “Somali Bantu celebrate harvest,” Sun Journal, Lewiston/Auburn, September 20, 2015.
- “Somali refugees find a farming oasis” Boston Globe, August 17, 2015.
- “Somali transplants put down roots in Maine” Boston Globe, August 17, 2015.