Join us for OPENING DAY 2025! The Smithereen Farmstore is back for another season, offering fresh organic produce from Smithereen Farm and lots of delicious local products from Washington County, Maine, and New England food producers. For the 2025 season we're open daily 9am–5pm.Learn more at smithereenfarm.com/farmstore
Walk through Candy Land and fill up a container of sweet treats for $7. All funds benefit Jonesboro Grange #357More details at: https://www.facebook.com/JonesboroGrange
Find full details at Healthy AcadiaAs the WCFC moves into 2025, community members are encouraged to get involved in several ways. The WCFC will host quarterly meetings open to the public, providing a platform for diverse voices and expertise in the food system, from farmers and fisherfolk to healthcare workers and artisans.Save these dates for […]
Presented by the Cobscook Institute. Details at: https://cobscookinstitute.org/birdfestThe annual Down East Spring Birding Festival provides a unique birding experience during spring migration and the breeding season with four days of guided hikes, boat tours, and presentations, all led by local guides with local knowledge. The Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife has named the Downeast Spring […]
It is Spring planting time again and we are happy to offer seedling pre-orders again this year. This link will take you to the Google form to fill out. The deadline for filling out is 5/19 for most pickups. We do have limited spots for an early pickup, the week before the seedling sale, but […]
All are welcome to our fourth annual Pennamaquan Alewife Festival. This is a free, family-friendly event open to the public.SMOKING AND EATING OF FISH: Terran works the DSF smoker, free lunch buffet provided by Smithereen Farm at noonLEARN: Downeast Salmon Federation info table, Biologist talks, testing, and netting with Sara Williams of DSFPRESENTATION: 11am, in the […]
A slideshow and talk by nurseryman, educator and permaculture specialist, on native, perennial, and unusual food crops for Downeast Maine. No RSVP required, but if you want to RSVP via email to [email protected], Aaron will email you materials. Presented by the Eat Downeast!Campaign. This talk takes place as part of the Fourth Annual Pennamaquan Alewife […]
Greenhorns and Smithereen Farm partner to offer educational seaweed harvest events. This is our seventh year of offering Low Low Tides Seaweed Programming.These events are multi-day educational and social experiences; at dawn we teach you to harvest responsibly and process wild algae for culinary use. In the afternoon we host teachers for lectures, and there […]
Greenhorns and Smithereen Farm present, as part of our Low Low Tides Seaweed Harvest programming:A conversation about fisher-advocacy, values-based seafood, and defending the ocean commons. For those who are new to the "ocean space," it's not always clear that there are many civil society organizations working to represent the stakeholders of the ocean. Conservation organizations […]
In 2022, Georgie Kendall started the Rhubarb Festival. Now celebrated annually on the first Saturday in June, the festival offers demos on planting and caring for rhubarb and explores rhubarb’s versatility in food and drink. Local vendors, music, kids’ games, a rhubarb tasting table, crust making, and all things “rhubarb” are celebrated at this unique […]
