• Climate Adapted Tree Planting Tour

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    Join us for a walk and talk to explore our new climate adapted tree planting! We will meet to see the new planting of 14 trees (with 14 more to come) with Aleta McKeage of the Waldo County Soil & Water district, who is partnering with us on this project.  Our forests in Maine face extraordinary stressors. The MOFGA campus […]

    FREE
  • Twilight Gatherings: Hand Tools for the Garden

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    Maybe you’ve been considering purchasing a few new tools for your garden, but you’d  like to see them up close, test them out and learn their positive (and negative) attributes. Join Jack Kertesz, MOFGA’s landscape coordinator (and avid hand tool user), for a live, interactive breakout session, where you can poke around and ponder a […]

    FREE
  • Plantas Nativas para la Granja con Bas Rouge Farm & Forge

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    En este taller hablaremos acerca de cómo identificamos ciertas plantas nativas y sus requisitos de crecimiento y propagación. Aprenderemos sobre el beneficio de estas plantas dentro del entorno de la granja para crear caminos alimentarios para polinizadores, hábitat, cercas naturales y cortavientos. Habrá una demostración sobre la variedad de sistemas de raíces, requisitos de luz, […]

    FREE
  • Barn Rebuild Work Day

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    The time has come— we're ready to rebuild the MOFGA barn lost to fire this past January, and we are thankful for our community of volunteers ready to help! Please dress appropriately for outside work, including closed-toe shoes (work boots with a steel toe are even better). Volunteers are welcome to bring their own tools […]

  • Barn Rebuild Work Day

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    The time has come— we're ready to rebuild the MOFGA barn lost to fire this past January, and we are thankful for our community of volunteers ready to help!Please dress appropriately for outside work, including closed-toe shoes (work boots with a steel toe are even better). Volunteers are welcome to bring their own tools if […]

  • Farm & Homestead Day

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    Join us for this free, hands-on, skill-sharing event! All ages are invited to MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity for a day of fun and learning focused on sustainable living skills. Come prepared to roll up your sleeves and dig in!  As the event details are finalized you can learn more here.

    free
  • Twilight Gatherings: Tree Tour

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    MOFGA's campus in Unity, Maine, is home to acres of forests and fields as well as demonstration gardens, orchards and other plantings. We hope you'll join us for this opportunity to enjoy and learn from these features on campus this summer as part of our twilight gatherings.  MOFGA is home to a collection of trees […]

    FREE
  • Safe Labor Movement Workshop with Cynthia Flores: Central Maine

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    Labor-Movement will be offering a free movement workshop in Unity, ME on May 30. These workshops are funded through a risk management grant awarded to Labor-Movement through Northeast ERME, via USDA/NIFA, OR funded through Maine Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN), through UMaine Cooperative Extension, Maine DACF awarded by USDA/National Institute of Food and […]

    FREE
  • Climate Adapted Tree Planting

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    Join us for a hands-on low-impact forestry project! Our forests in Maine face extraordinary stressors and, at the MOFGA campus, our monoculture pine stands and our young stands are especially vulnerable. To help demonstrate proactive climate action, we are planting a selection of carefully selected new tree species which will be observed and cared for in […]

    FREE
  • Mushroom Cultivation on Logs

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    $60; $45 for MOFGA members.Mushrooms are delicious nutritional powerhouses and a great addition to small farms, urban backyards and gardens. However fungi require a very different environment than vegetables to grow in, as well as a different skill set on the part of the grower.  They can also be cultivated in spaces that can't otherwise […]

    $45 – $60
  • Parasite Fecal Monitoring for Livestock & Pasture Health

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    Parasite fecal monitoring is a tried and true tool for analyzing livestock and pasture health in organic systems. This workshop will allow participants to learn the process of setting up fecal cultures and will give you an opportunity to evaluate your own animals' health. We will discuss various internal parasites and the livestock life stages […]

    $10
  • Earth Day Workday

    MOFGA's Education Center 294 Crosby Brook Rd, Unity, ME, United States

    Join us to celebrate Earth Day with a spring cleanup at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity on Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.We’ll spend time tidying the grounds to get ready for the upcoming growing season and events we'll be hosting. Tasks include raking, cleaning out garden beds, digging up […]