NEW DATE! Our August 9 tour has been rescheduled to August 16 due to rain. Come visit (or re-visit) Alice's off-grid, low-key homestead, featuring a tiny cabin and gorgeous gardens. Ask questions about living small, keeping things simple, and adapting to changing life circumstances and visions over time. Alice held a "beginner homestead" Gather & Grow tour […]
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*Free for Journeyperson program participants and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). Scholarship application for anyone interested is available here. This workshop is an introduction to the practices involved in growing nursery stock, like apple and other fruit seedling trees. The focus will be on bud grafting, which involves grafting a growth bud onto rootstock in […]
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*This event is free for participants in MOFGA's Journeyperson program, as well as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community members.Learn to dye fabrics with locally foraged plant materials in this introductory natural dyeing workshop, open to new and experienced dyers alike. Participants will tie-dye cotton bandanas with goldenrod and experiment with wool yarn […]
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*This is the sixth in a series of 9 classes. Registration price covers the whole series. **Registration is free for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community members and participants in the MOFGA Journeyperson Program. Join Master Beekeeper Karen Thurlow for our first-ever foray into beekeeping through the seasons. From getting hives going in […]
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Alan Day Community Garden (ADCG) is home to bountiful veggie gardens, tended to by community members, as well as to a community food forest project. At 1 pm, join Scott Vlaun from the Center for an Ecology-Based Economy in Norway for a tour of ADCG, with a specific focus on the food forest. Learn about the […]
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Visit a sweet homestead boasting food forest-inspired fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and topiary in Mt. Vernon, Maine. Greg and Debbie grow cherries, mulberries, apples, elderberries, chestnuts, hazelnuts, and more. This is a perfect opportunity for those interested in homesteading, having fun with topiary, propagating trees, and/or cultivating fruits and nuts -- especially those less commonly grown in Maine. Learn about Greg's transition […]
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Please join us to tour a small hobby urban garden. We'll explore a number of ongoing experiments as well as tried and true techniques. Expect to chat about vertical systems, year-round growing, biochar, earthen flooring and automating rain barrels as well as espaliers, edibles and native mixes. We will explain our adapted greenhouse and adapted […]
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