BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 29, 2020
Unsolicited packages of seeds have been arriving in the mailboxes of Mainers and residents of many other states. In each case, the recipients say they did not order the seeds. This has sparked a warning from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry against planting the unsolicited seeds and asking anyone who receives them to report them to the department or the U.S. Department of Agriculture office in Maine. The motive behind the unsolicited seed mailings is not yet known.