Protect Our Health announces the 2022 Environmental Health Leadership Awards

PORTLAND – Protect Our Health hosted community members and environmental health and justice leaders from across Maine at Broadthorn Farm in Scarborough to present the annual Environmental Health Leadership Awards.

This year’s award winners — including three farms in Waldo County — were selected for being outstanding members of the environmental health community in the fight for a healthier, safer and toxin-free future.

At the event, Protect Our Health celebrated 20 years of victories in the fight for healthy produce, clean water, healthy food and a toxin-free environment — most recently fighting PFAS contamination across Maine and releasing a report on the dangers of petrochemical plastics.

The Grassroots Leadership Award is presented to leaders whose exceptional and often courageous public leadership has empowered community members to create positive change for environmental health:

McCormick Family Farm is a small family farm in Jackson that produces strawberries, pasture-raised chickens, and hay.

New Beat Farm, a MOFGA certified organic farm in Knox that grows vegetables, cut flowers and pasture-raised sheep.

Songbird Farm, a certified organic grain and mixed vegetable farm in Unity, grinds its own grain with a small stone mill on site.

Misty Brook Farm in Albion, an organic family farm that produces meat, dairy and eggs.

Also honored with a Legislative Leadership Award during the Sept. 11 event was Democratic Rep. S. Paige Zeigler of Montville.

“We are privileged to work with these awardees in our fight against toxics, who are leaders committed to moving forward in making Maine’s environmental public health a priority,” said Sarah Woodbury, our director of public health advocacy. “These awards recognize the significant contributions Mainers have made to protect us; protecting our food and drinking water, protecting our land, and making Maine a leader in protecting the public from toxic chemicals.

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