The farm had come to occupy center stage in the new popular image of Maine. The way people have used the landscape has really defined Maine to the rest of the nation. It's, it's been a crucial part of our own self-identity as Mainers, and it's been a very crucial part of the way people outside the state view Maine today. You have um, a pastoral landscape, a landscape of mixed farms and forests, fields, and country towns. And this was really a product of Maine agriculture.
People come here.
They come from the cities. They come to Maine to look at the open land that we have the fields, the cropland, the orchards, the cattle in the fields. But, we play a great part in the economy here in Maine. The people who come for the summer, the summer people, um, they love farm stands and business does change. Our own local people just are, are waiting for that.