At Uncas Farm in Whitefield, farmers Teryn and Ben Marcus looked forward to a new cash crop this fall, only to be caught up in a nightmare scenario involving the intersection of newly legal hemp…
Agriculture
As the summer people leave, so, too, do the monarch butterflies. Since May, these beautiful insects have been amongst us, but they’ve been heading south for the past few weeks.
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Morris Farm in Wiscasset will host the Knox-Lincoln County Extension Association annual meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at 156 Gardiner Road.
Morris Farm board president and University…
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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Damariscotta
Healthy Lincoln County has repurposed some of their front lawn on Main Street in Damariscotta for two raised garden beds.
“With so much of our work focused on nutrition and food security,…
“Amazing!” was how an organizer described local response to Wiscasset’s inaugural farmers market June 6. The outdoor market held Thursdays from 3 to 6 p.m. will continue at the waterfront through…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) invites landowners to learn how to spot and identify common invasive plants on Saturday, June 8 starting at 10 a.m. as part of a two-part series on invasive…
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…
The Boothbay Farmers’ Market starts its season on Boothbay Town Common on Thursday, May 23. They will set up on the Common from 9 a.m. to noon every Thursday through October 10, except that the…
In late March, freshmen from Wiscasset Middle High School seeded 17 varieties of heirloom tomatoes. A month later, a different group of science students transplanted these plants into larger pots…
For going on two decades, Morris Farm in Wiscasset has made garden space for people to “grow their own.” The Margaret Ellis Community Garden was named in honor of one of the founding members of…
Lincoln County Gleaners are ramping up for their third season, collecting fresh produce from local farms, markets, and gardens and they need more volunteers. Volunteers are needed not only for…
This past week marked the official beginning of the Twin Villages Foodbank Farm’s (TVFF’s) fourth growing season. Farmers Sara Cawthon and Kaitlyn Gardner got things underway in the greenhouse…
Maine has a long history of family-scale agriculture, and the apple tree has been an integral part of that history. Not so long ago, most Mainers lived on farms that contained orchards. According…
Discover the fascinating hobby of beekeeping. A seven-week course, presented by experienced beekeepers from the Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers (KLCB) and the Maine’s State Bee Inspector, will be…
harvested from a crocus that blooms during a short period in autumn
WALDOBORO — When Barbara Boardman and her husband, Chris Augusta, moved to Maine in 2000 they were inspired by their rich personal connections to a state where he summered as a child and she…
Discover the fascinating hobby of beekeeping! Join the seven-week course, presented by experienced beekeepers from the Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers (KLCB), the Maine State Beekeepers Association…
This is the time of year when fresh food donations become scarcer at food pantries, while the line at the pantry door often gets longer. Twin Villages Foodbank Farm (TVFF) in Damariscotta has been…
The Central Lincoln County (CLC) YMCA is excited to announce they will host many of your favorite Damariscotta Farmers' Market vendors inside at the YMCA starting this week.
Beginning…
The sweet, tangy flavor of fresh-pressed apple cider is always an autumn treat and the 1761 Pownalborough Courthouse in Dresden was a perfect setting for Sunday’s cider-pressing sponsored by the…
“Tour de Farms” is an annual bike visit to Lincoln County farms, now in its 19th year.
There were four separate rides Saturday. The first was a 17-mile family ride, starting and stopping…
Lincoln County Gleaners
On two very hot mornings Aug. 6 and 8, the Lincoln County Gleaners trekked out to Clark Farm in Nobleboro to get food for area food banks, churches, libraries, senior citizen homes and senior…
On Saturday, Sept. 8, the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation Farm Tour will hit the road. This year's tour puts the spotlight on farms in coastal Lincoln County. Participants will see…
There is a lot of buzz about pollinators these days, especially for farmers. Join farmers Brady Hatch and Brendan Quillen at Morning Dew Farm in Damariscotta on Wednesday, Aug. 1 from 5-7 p.m. to…
Twin Villages Foodbank (TVFF) Farm Assistant Manager Kaitlyn Gardner is a blur of motion, tugging large fistfuls of beets up out of the earth and twisting off the greens before dropping the ruby…
Marybeth Canedy of Jefferson submitted the winning T-shirt design for this year’s Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & RegattaTM.
Originally from Massachusetts, Canedy is an enthusiastic artist…
Bailey Bartlett loves digging in the dirt. She started her business, Bailey’s Blooms, two years ago, and is transforming the grounds around Montsweag Farms Restaurant on Route 1 in Woolwich, after…
A farm in Newcastle is generating a lot of pretty, healthy, organic seedlings this spring.
Three local men have started a project to locate, maintain and restore the Heritage apple trees at all the preserves on the Boothbay peninsula. Two of…
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…
The Lincoln County Gleaners had a banner first year by gleaning and distributing almost 6,000 pounds of fresh, local food from five local farms, and they’re looking to recruit more volunteers for…
Wiscasset Middle High School
In a Wiscasset Middle High School science classroom Friday, Ralph Keyes's students donned dust masks to mix soil and washed their hands to keep healthy the tomato seeds they were preparing to…
Come to Henhouse Sugaring, 232 Cross Point Road, Edgecomb Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25 to celebrate Maine Maple Sunday.
There will be a lot going on including: Sugarhouse tours, a…
Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers [KLCB] host their last indoor meeting on Friday, March 23 with a Comb Honey Workshop featuring Neal Kober from Humble Abodes and Betterbee. The…
There’s a new brewery coming to Midcoast Maine. Westport Island will be the home port of Sasanoa Brewing, at Tarbox Farm …
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, and Midcoast Farmers Alliance present the second program in the 2018 Farmer and Gardener Workshop Series, Food…
Chewonki and Morris Farm
The fourth annual “Local Food, Local Hunger” community forum on March 3 at Chewonki Foundation focused on the difficulty low-income families face getting wholesome food. According to the…
After two full growing seasons, Twin Villages Foodbank Farm (TVFF) in Damariscotta is ready to expand its capacity to grow and deliver fresh food to food pantries and other programs in Lincoln…
The Morris Farm, a working farm and education center that promotes sustainable agriculture and environmental stewardship, and Chewonki, an environmental education oganization that promotes…
All gardeners out there, both beginners and experienced, who enjoy growing new plants, will enjoy the annual Seed Swap Day (Saturday, Feb. 10) at Knox & Lincoln Counties Extension, 377…
On Tuesday, Nov. 14, Somali Bantu farmers from New Roots Cooperative Farm in Lewiston will give a presentation about their new farm at the Friends Meetinghouse in Damariscotta. The event is…
Robin Ford and her mother, Brenda Sandner, are raising bunnies in Newcastle.
They're not just any bunnies, though. The bunnies being bred and raised at Growing Rabbit Tree are big, white,…
Damariscotta Pumpkinfest 2017 kicked off with the volunteer weigh-off Saturday, Sept. 30 at Pinkham’s Plantation in Damariscotta.
“They thought we were crazy,” said co-…
Bring your own apples and press your own cider at the Pownalborough Court House in Dresden on Saturday, Sept. 30 from noon to 4 p.m. The stewardship committee of the historic site will provide…
The Morris Farm Trust will host a Farm to Table Dinner on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 5:30 p.m. This elegant seven-course dinner will feature white tablecloths, fresh flowers and fine wine. Wine and…
On Saturday, Sept. 9, the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation Farm…
Damariscotta Pumpkinfest 2017
Two giant pumpkins are growing in Edgecomb.
Have you ever wondered how a giant pumpkin is grown? If you think those pumpkins, weighing in excess of 100 pounds, featured in the annual…
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 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…
Tom Albee said if it weren’t for volunteers’ help in recent years, he wouldn’t still be able to farm his Route 218, Alna land, in his family since the mid-1880s. Now residents are stepping up to…
