When back-to-landers decided to start their farm, they were faced with a hard choice of switching crops and growing to a market economy or losing their land. Andrew Reiner documents how farmers at Good Earth Farm live a rural lifestyle and the challenges they have faced.

Table of contents for May 1989 Salt Magazine.

Listing of Salt production staff, contributors, and faculty.

Rebecca Sakoun speaks with toll collectors at toll plaza 6A to learn about their jobs and experiences.

Drawing from personal experiences, Janine Clarke discusses what the camps of Cold Stream Pond mean to her. She looks at the lives and histories of the people who own these camps, and how their family histories are shaped by them.

For the sea urchin industry, a rough economy is causing tensions to grow between government regulators and sea urchin fishermen. Meghan Daniels explores how the Department of Marine Resources and sea urchin fishermen are encountering issues regarding regulations on how many days are set for urchin fishing a year.

Salt editor Samuel A. Eliot informs readers that Salt will be returning to a small 64 page magazine.

Jenna Lane discusses the history of the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad, and how tourism plays a large factor in Belfast.

Readers write in response to the work Salt has done.

Bios of the contributors to the December 1990 Salt Magazine, with information on this issue.

Staff, contributors, trustees, and academic board members are listed.

The United States provides refugee for many different cultures and peoples who are escaping war around the world. Lacey Andrews speaks to refugees from Somali to learn about their community in Portland as they seek stability in the United States.