Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is offering a new “Adventure Day at the Gardens” program for children ages 6-11. From taking a boat trip down a tidal river to hiking through the Gardens’ extensive…
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Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Growing evidence indicates that gardening and access to nature has been linked to reducing stress and enhancing overall well-being. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is offering a new workshop that…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is offering a unique, weekend-long workshop featuring the botany and birds of National Audubon Society’s magnificent Hog Island. The…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
The Boothbay Region Garden Club presents this home that is very rich with history and waits for you to explore its past and present.
The old farm and sea captain's house overlooks Ebenecook…
LincolnHealth medical professionals are offering new classes and programs to teach and encourage community members to eat more nutritious, balanced meals to help improve their overall health and…
Join world traveler and food enthusiast, Jenny Norcott, as she leads us through a variety of fantastic recipes that will be a perfect addition to your summer. This hands-on class will…
Hildy Ellis’s nemesis is the Norway maple tree. She’s been tackling the shoots and saplings in her yard, and she thinks she’s gotten ahead of them. But she understands that Norway maple is an…
The wedding quilt made for Esther Jameson Newbert in 1856 holds a special place in the textile collection of the Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta. Inspired by the…
This summer, Skidompha Library’s staff genealogist and volunteers are offering a service that will benefit patrons, future researchers and the library collection. For generations, many families…
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. While a honeybee…
The Boothbay Region Garden Club proudly presents its first home for the “Sea Around Us” Home and Garden Tour. The tour is held on Friday, July 21 from 9:30…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
On Wednesday, June 14, a beaming Mimi O'Neill welcomed more than 65 members and guests to the 2017 Boothbay Region Garden Club annual meeting and luncheon held at…
The answer is yes. Ask the hungry people who received over 250,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables grown last year by Master Gardener Volunteers for food pantries across the state. Ask the people…
Whether you have a small yard or acres of property, you can garden and landscape to entice many of your favorite birds to your home. Instructor Jody Telfair will help participants work to create…
The barn at Morris Farm is once again filling up with a huge selection of heirloom tomatoes, hardy Maine-grown perennials, vegetable and flower seedlings, and herbs for the farm’s annual plant…
Last fall, members of the Boothbay Region High School Interact Club worked with members of the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club and the Boothbay Region Garden Club to plant a number of tulip bulbs…
Twin Villages Foodbank Farm (TVFF) in Damariscotta is setting an ambitious goal for its second season, growing even more fresh nutrient-dense food to serve many more outlets in Lincoln County.…
While not exactly warm enough to fling wide the doors and windows, it must have been very liberating for the residents of the Gregory Wing to finally have an opportunity to access their beautiful…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
The Boothbay Region Garden Club proudly presents its annual Home and Garden Tour, “The Sea Around Us.”…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) invites wildflower connoisseurs on Saturday, May 20 at 12:30 p.m. to join the third workshop in the spring stewardship series…
Join Midcoast Conservancy for an Invasive Plant Identification workshop on Thursday, May 25 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Led by Hildy Ellis of the Knox-…
May Day showers and chilly late spring temps did not at all dampen the spirits of the 18 or so members of the Boothbay Region Garden Club (BRGC) who traveled to…
In early April, students in Wiscasset Middle High School science classes planted seeds of 16 varieties of heirloom tomato plants for the annual Morris Farm community plant sale. By May 3, the…
The Boothbay Farmers’ Market starts their season on the Boothbay Town Common, 1 Common Drive, on Thursday, May 18. They will set up on the Common from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursdays through October 5…
Biologist Tim Forrester, a wetland scientist, is an environmental consultant.
Forrester lives with his wife, Bethany, and their children, Ben and Lily, in Woolwich. In the expansive…
Whether you have a small yard or acres of property, you can garden and landscape to entice many of your favorite birds to your home. Jody Telfair will help participants work to create a bird-…
To close the chapter on our recent bout of late but intense wintry bluster, the Boothbay Region Garden Club was delighted to host local Master Gardener Linton Studdiford for the April general…
After a long winter, there’s nothing more revitalizing than the smell and feel of freshly turned earth and the sight of bright green seedlings pushing up toward the sunlight. For those who lack…
No matter whether you have a small yard or acres of property, you can garden and landscape to entice many of your favorite birds to your home. Jody Telfair will help participants work to create…
With winter's “last hurrah” still in evidence in the Boothbay region, two members of the Boothbay Region Garden Club did their best to bring a breath of spring to St. Andrews Village on April 6…
When Midcoast Conservancy holds Timber Frame courses at Hidden Valley Nature Center, more than post-and-beam frames are built: partnerships, friendships and new skill sets are regular features of…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
This month's Garden Therapy theme at St. Andrews Village followed the oft quoted adage for March and we all know that March 2017 did, indeed, come in like a lion but…
I gave my Irish-American mother a tiny pot of shamrocks last St. Patrick’s day. I picked them up at a grocery store and they sat on her kitchen table. She loved the sentiment. My mother loves…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District, in partnership with the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Somerset County…
Tune in to HGTV’s series “Island Life” Sundays, Feb. 19 and March 5 at 10 p.m., to glimpse a few familiar sights and people. The March 5 episode features …
The Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant Street, Brunswick will be holding a series of…
Scheduling a monthly meeting of any kind can be a dicey proposition in Maine during the month of February. It was with this in mind that BRGC, Program Committee member, Kathy Trafton, suggested,…
Clamshell Quilters' Feb. 13 meeting is our traditional community service workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Faith Baptist Church in Newcastle. Come for the whole day or just a few hours.…
Time and Tide Resource Conservation and Development Area announce the opportunity for schools to establish a garden at their school. This $250 grant is available to public and private schools in…
Learn great skills that will come in handy if you are a new homeowner, a renter or just tired of getting someone else to do the work. This “hands on” field course facilitated by local contractor…
All gardeners out there, both beginners and experienced, who enjoy growing new plants, will enjoy Pollinator Seed Swap Day (Jan. 28) at Spectrum…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens announced Wednesday it has received a generous gift of land from an anonymous donor. The 24.81 acre…
Last summer the Zalucky connection to Poland resulted in a visit to the Boothbay peninsula by 19-year-old Karolina Lukaszewicz of Warsaw, Poland who, almost immediately, felt herself at home in…
For the past ten years, thousands of packages are delivered to the Lincoln County Animal Shelter (LCAS) on Christmas Eve, filled with food, supplements, remedies, toys, medications, beds, litter…
It wasn't very long ago that our temperatures here on the peninsula were still warm enough to make a deposit of bulbs in the ground for a return of beautiful flowers in the spring. The Interact…
The Coastal Humane Society of Brunswick and Lincoln County Animal Shelter of Edgecomb are looking for Homes for the Holidays for two special groups of animals rescued from overcrowded facilities…
Remember driving around town with your parents to see all the Christmas decorations and lights on neighbors’ houses? And getting a glimpse of the lit-up Christmas tree…
The pretty yellow carriage house that sits on a ridge overlooking the Sheepscot River in Boothbay Harbor, started as just that — a carriage house — with an apartment.…
On Wednesday, Oct. 12, the membership of the Boothbay Region Garden Club (BRGC) was pleased to welcome Wells and Mollie Moore who shared their intensely personal…
We welcome the public to join us on Monday, Oct. 24 from 3 to 4 p.m. to learn from Shelley, of Shelley's Flowers in Waldoboro, as she demonstrates ways to arrange…
