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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 Mar 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.