10% for Maine: October 3

(Editor's Note: This is a weekly feature that will highlight North Gorham residents' ability to spend at least 10% of a weekly grocery bill on Maine-owned products at a major grocery store in the area.)

Percentage of Maine-owned goods bought: 28.7%

Allagash White (Portland)
Bar Harbor Clam Chowder (Whiting)
Fox Family Potato Chips (Blaine)
Kate's Sea Salt Butter (Old Orchard Beach)
Montecito Roadhouse tortilla chips (Westbrook)
Oakhurst Heavy Cream (Portland)
Randall Orchards apples (Standish) 

- John C.L. Morgan

10% for Maine: September 26, 2016

(Editor's Note: This is the fifth installment of 10% for Maine, a weekly feature that will highlight North Gorham residents' ability to spend at least 10% of a weekly grocery bill on Maine-owned products at a major grocery store in the area.)

Percentage of Maine-owned goods bought: 10.8%

Kate's Sea Salt Butter (Old Orchard Beach)
Oakhurst Dairy Skim Milk (Portland)
Shipyard Pumpkinhead (Portland)

- John C.L. Morgan

10% for Maine: September 19

(Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment of 10% for Maine, a weekly feature that will highlight North Gorham residents' ability to spend at least 10% of a weekly grocery bill on Maine-owned products at a major grocery store in the area.)

Percentage of Maine-owned goods bought: 16.3%

Backyard Farms tomatoes (Madison)
Giffords French Vanilla ice cream (Skowhegan)
Kate's Sea Salt Butter (Old Orchard Beach)
Oakhurst Dairy Skim Milk (Portland)
Pineland Farms corn (New Gloucester)
Sebago Brewing Company Simmer Down beer (Gorham)
Wicked Joe Wicked French coffee (Topsham)

- John C.L. Morgan

10% for Maine: September 12

(Editor's Note: This is the third installment of 10% for Maine, a weekly feature that will highlight North Gorham residents' ability to spend at least 10% of a weekly grocery bill on Maine-owned products at a major grocery store in the area.)

Percentage of Maine-owned goods bought: 14.3%

Backyard Farms tomatoes (Madison)
Kate's Sea Salt Butter (Old Orchard Beach)
Oakhurst Dairy Skim Milk (Portland)
Sebago Brewing Company Simmer Down beer (Gorham)
Wicked Joe Wicked French coffee (Topsham)

- John C.L. Morgan

10% for Maine: September 5, 2016

(Editor's Note: This is the second installment of 10% for Maine, a weekly feature that will highlight North Gorham residents' ability to spend at least 10% of a weekly grocery bill on Maine-owned products at a major grocery store in the area.)

Percentage of Maine-owned goods bought: 16.3%

Backyard Farms tomatoes (Madison)
Giffords French Vanilla ice cream (Skowhegan)
Kate's Sea Salt Butter (Old Orchard Beach)
Oakhurst Dairy Skim Milk (Portland)
Pineland Farms corn (New Gloucester)
Sebago Brewing Company Simmer Down beer (Gorham)
Wicked Joe Wicked French coffee (Topsham)

- John C.L. Morgan

10% for Maine: August 29, 2016

(Editor's Note: This is the first installment of 10% for Maine, a weekly feature that will highlight North Gorham residents' ability to spend at least 10% of a weekly grocery bill on Maine-owned products at a major grocery store in the area.)

Percentage of Maine-owned goods bought: 14.3%

Backyard Farms tomatoes (Madison)
Kate's Sea Salt Butter (Old Orchard Beach)
Oakhurst Dairy Skim Milk (Portland)
Sebago Brewing Company Simmer Down beer (Gorham)
Wicked Joe Wicked French coffee (Topsham)

- John C.L. Morgan