“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
The planting must go on! Despite coronavirus restrictions on movement for residents and visitors to St. Andrews…
Home and Garden
This year, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens will present its 16th annual garden symposium, “Designing with Water,” via three online sessions, June 10, 17 and 24. Honoring CMBG’s seasonal theme, “…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has announced an innovative alternative to its onsite signature summer camps this year. “We’re calling it the CMBG Summer Camp Club,” says Erika Huber, Youth &…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is pleased to announce that it will open to the public Monday, June 1. Gardens have long been places of healing, tranquility, and beauty — especially during times…
Midcoast Conservancy offers support for homeowners and road associations looking to fix erosion issues on personal or community property on Damariscotta Lake. Erosion control projects are the…
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering guidelines for community gardens during the COVID-19 outbreak based on CDC recommendations.
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a new eight-part video series for first-time gardeners.
“A Victory Garden for ME” provides an overview of vegetable gardening, from…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), in cooperation with Maine Resource and Recovery Association, is again offering local residents the opportunity to improve soil and…
A few Waldoboro women braved the virus and met at a home, outside, at a friend’s residence. The homeowner had a beautifully overgrown iris bed that desperately needed thinning. The irises are a…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension has a new online resource designed to encourage all the gardeners who are waiting for warmer weather and soil ready for planting.
Every week, "…
Connecting people to plants and nature is at the heart of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ mission — a connection that’s now more important than ever. To that end, “CMBG at Home,” the Gardens’ new…
UPDATE: In response to the national emergency created by COVID-19 and Maine Governor Janet Mills’ Executive Order of March 31, 2020, which mandates that Maine citizens “Stay…
Board meeting at St. Andrews Village Arts and Crafts Room. Wednesday, March 11 at 10:30 a.m. At St. Columba's Episcopal Church, 32 Emery Lane, Boothbay Harbor, on March…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) and Boothbay Harbor’s Harbor Theater have rescheduled their public screening of The Pollinators for Thursday, March 12, at 6 p.m. Per director Peter Nelson,…
Morris Farm in Wiscasset is hosting a workshop with the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA) on Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost for the two-day workshop is $…
Boothbay Region Adult and Community Education is pleased to welcome Master Gardener Jean Vose of Nobleboro as one of their spring instructors. The topic is "Companion Planting - Plants You Should…
A board meeting will be held in the arts and crafts room at St. Andrews Village on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 10:30 a.m. At noon on Feb. 12, the club will hold a “getting to know you" potluck at St.…
Garden Therapy will meet at St Andrews Village on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 11 a.m. There will be a board meeting in the St. Andrews Village Arts and Crafts Room on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 10:30 a.m. Also…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s 2020 Spring Plant Sale Catalog is now available in…
On Tuesday, Jan. 7, the residents, while warm and cozy inside the Gregory Wing, enjoyed pursuing a winter craft project with the help of Boothbay Region Garden Club members. Participants created…
The fifth annual Seed Swap & Saving Seeds Workshop is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Knox & Lincoln Counties Extension office, 377 Manktown Road in Waldoboro (…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
On behalf of the Boothbay Region Garden Club, I would like to extend sincere thanks to all those in the community who contributed to our 2019 Festival of Trees event. Donations consisted of…
Now's the time to choose those open-pollinated and heirloom seeds harvested this fall to bring to the Seed Swap. There will be envelopes for choosing and packaging seed. A volunteer will be…
The Central Lincoln County (CLC) YMCA indoor Damariscotta Farmers' Market is in full swing. The community can visit the vendors inside at the YMCA every Friday from 9am-noon. All are welcome and…
Thanksgiving
by Leanne Guenther
The year has turned its circle,
The seasons come and go.
The harvest is all gathered in
And…
Are your home heating and energy bills high? Did you know that home weatherization and heating system upgrades (insulation, cold climate heat pumps, etc.) can reduce yearly energy bills by 35% to…
Press release
Newagen Seaside Inn is proud to announce local gardener Doug Peck as a blue ribbon winner at MOFGA’s Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine.
Peck has been honored two straight years for dahlias…
Team members at the Lincoln Medical Partners Family Medicine Wiscasset office and their patients have been reaping the benefits of its new raised-bed gardens.
This marks the first year for…
Autumn weather signals that it is time to plant garlic! The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) welcomes the public to the LOCAL Garden on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. for the Growing Great Garlic…
Discover a fondness for Maine’s lichens! Join Maine Master Naturalist instructor Jeff Pengel and explore the miniature world of lichens on Saturday, Sept. 28 from 9 to 11 a.m. at KELT’s Lilly Pond…
Lisa Burnham is excited to present her new Boothbay business Begin Again to contractors and homeowners of the Boothbay peninsula and Midcoast Maine.
Begin Again at 798 Wiscasset Road in…
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” Emily Brontë
As summer blooms begin to fade, autumn sweeps in with a new color palette all its own providing…
The weeding team will meet at the Boothbay Memorial Park on Monday, Sept. 9 at 9 a.m. BRGC board meeting, St. Andrews Village Arts and Crafts Room, Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 10:30 a.m. At noon on…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is getting an autumnal makeover. As the weather cools, CMBG staff, local artists, businesses, students, organizations and individuals will grace our gardens with…
This is the time of year that finds Maine gardens at their peak performance and also, not coincidentally, the month of the year that the Garden Therapy team of the Boothbay Region Garden Club…
July 19 was warm and sunny for Boothbay Region Garden Club's 2019 House and Garden Tour, "The Sea Around Us." People gathering to board buses were full of anticipation and were not disappointed.…
A two-day Americana auction event featuring the contents of a stately 18th century Colonial home in East Boothbay known as The Murray House will be held July 27 and 28 by John McInnis Auctioneers…
Alden Jordan and Karen Lea’s 10-year-old granddaughter, Lexi, is looking to help the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
Alden and Karen grow many flowers on their Boothbay Harbor…
Boothbay Region Garden Club House and Garden Tour
The July 19 Boothbay Region House and Garden Tour is focusing on historic homes and it would be hard to imagine one better known and more likely to elicit nostalgia for the past than this…
This season, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) is celebrating the power of the unseen with its theme, Roots: The Other Half of the Story. That celebration culminates with the opening of…
Drafty windows? High heating bills? Would you like to have a warmer home and save money? Nonprofit WindowDressers can help! Its insulating window inserts fit inside of your windows to let in all…
Did you know that the monarch butterfly population has dropped 97% since the turn of the century? Did you know that the U.S. government is considering whether they're an endangered species?
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Sharing barely a peek in this photo, this home, one of six on the Boothbay Region House and Garden Tour set for July 19, sits high atop Boothbay Harbor and will surprise and delight any and all…
As part of their natural reproductive cycle, honeybees will swarm. A swarm is when a queen and a good portion of the worker population of bees leave the hive to find a new home.…
The Boothbay Region Garden Club 2019 Home and Garden tour happening on July 19 includes noteworthy properties on either side of the harbor. On the east side, tour participants will walk to this…
The Boothbay Region Garden Club held its annual luncheon meeting, Wednesday, June 12 under sunny skies at the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club and installed the following new officers for the 2019-2020…
After two back breaking, knee compressing, sciatica triggering hours in my garden, I get it!
The accompanying photo may not look like much to the uninitiated, but these unassuming…
2019 BRGC Home and Garden Tour
Local history buffs will appreciate this house and its location. The house dates back to 1876 as confirmed by the original deed on display inside the home. Master boatbuilder, Cecil Pierce, was…
Charming, enchanting and enticing are words that easily describe this tiny 1920s home that is filled inside and out with interesting and delightful things to see! Most items inside the home have…
