WINTHROP — The Bailey Public Library will host Maine Farmland Trust Executive Director John Piotti for a presentation and discussion on the state of farming and how farming can become the centerpiece of a sustainable future for Maine.

The event will take place in the historic reading room of the library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, and its is free and open to all.

Piotti has been at the front of agriculture issues in Maine for almost 20 years. In 1995, he created, then managed the Maine Farms Project for Coastal Enterprises.

He participated in the Millennium Commission on Hunger and Food Security, Maine’s Farm Vitality Task Force and the Governor’s Dairy Task Force.

Piotti also served in the Maine Legislature, where he chaired the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Beyond Maine, Piotti has served as chairman of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and director of the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture.

In 2005, he was one of only eight Americans awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship; he studied European models that use agriculture to advance sustainable community development.

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