BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 10, 2024
Maine shoppers, restaurants and institutions spent $432 million on food and alcohol from New England in 2022 — but it still only made up 3.4 percent of all the food and alcohol they bought, a new report estimates. To meet the state’s goals, that number needs to increase to 30 percent by the end of the decade. The report was released this week by the New England Food System Planners Partnership.