Our Maine Street's Aroostook Issue 1 : Summer 2009 | Seite 31

with silage and oats to make feed
for the cattle. Buckwheat hulls are
used as bedding for the animals,
and after they have become mixed
with manure, are spread on the
fields in the spring.

Top L to R : Philip, Joseph, Janice, Kelsy and Julie Bouchard
Bottom L to R : Odile Michaud (Rita Bouchard’s mother) and Jill Kelly
Rita’s granddaughter, the photo that inspired the company logo

Joe and Janice’s eldest
daughter, Kelsy, a graphic arts and
design major at the Massachusetts
College of Art, created a new logo
and package for the Ployes mix
as her Senior design project. Her
mother is hoping that Kelsy will
have a hand in developing the new
cookbook, which she hopes will
be available in time for the annual
Ployes Festival in Fort Kent, August 7-8. The middle daughter, Julie, now a Junior in high school, is
beginning to think about colleges
and is looking toward the medical
profession. Each of the Bouchard
children has in one way or another
helped out on the farm, whether
it has been working in the fields
with their father and grandfather,
or helping to package the mixes
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