Boom Times For Garlic In Maine

Roberta Bailey and Rob Lemire’s garlic fields at Seven Tree Farm in Vassalboro are not visible from the road, but on a hot July day, the smell wafts all the way to their mailbox. That’s the power of approximately 1,000 pounds worth of allium sativum growing in rich Kennebec River soil.

In the next week or so, Bailey, one of Maine’s early garlic pioneers, and her husband Lemire, a garlic convert who often gives her a run for the blue …

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