Denis Thoet started farming six years ago on 28 acres in West Gardiner. Beginning with a three-member share (Community Supported Agriculture) in 2004, he and his wife, Michele, have expanded the farm operation to 75 members in 2009. Before that, Thoet worked for 25 years in non-profit development as development director for the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine Audubon Society in Falmouth, Maine Center for Economic Policy in Augusta, and executive director of The Friends of the Maine State Museum. His experience in politics includes running a successful 2009 write-in campaign for Heidi Peckham for excise tax collector in West Gardiner. He also worked as a commercial fisherman out of Stonington and Newington, dragging and purse seining, from 1978-83. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and lived in suburban New York and Washington DC before spending his high school years in Paris, France. He is a graduate of Georgetown University with a bachelors degree in international affairs and a masters degree in journalism from Syracuse University. He worked as a journalist for 10 years in New York and Maine. He has twin daughters, Eliza and Eleanor, and two grandchildren.
Recent columns by Denis Thoet
OPINIONS SPECIAL PROJECTSHENRY DAVID THOREAU
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations. For more, click here.
SPECIAL REPORT: Hunger Series
"For I was hungry," a seven-part editorial series, documents the depth and breadth of hunger in Maine, from the dramatic increase in food pantries to the thousands of children who come to school hungry to the elderly with bare cupboards. For more, click here.
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Denis Thoet started farming six years ago on 28 acres in West Gardiner. Beginning with a three-member share (Community Supported Agriculture) in 2004, he and his wife, Michele, have expanded the farm operation to 75 members in 2009. Before that, Thoet worked for 25 years in non-profit development as development director for the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine Audubon Society in Falmouth, Maine Center for Economic Policy in Augusta, and executive director of The Friends of the Maine State Museum. His experience in politics includes running a successful 2009 write-in campaign for Heidi Peckham for excise tax collector in West Gardiner. He also worked as a commercial fisherman out of Stonington and Newington, dragging and purse seining, from 1978-83. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and lived in suburban New York and Washington DC before spending his high school years in Paris, France. He is a graduate of Georgetown University with a bachelors degree in international affairs and a masters degree in journalism from Syracuse University. He worked as a journalist for 10 years in New York and Maine. He has twin daughters, Eliza and Eleanor, and two grandchildren.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations.
