The Garden Club of Wiscasset invites you to join us at Squam Creek Farm on Westport Island from 4 to 6 p.m. Aug. 13 to learn who we are, what we do, and why we do it, in the hope you will become a…
Home and Garden
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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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.…
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…
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…
To bee or not to bee. If that is the question, Midcoast Conservancy offers two opportunities to learn more about these valued pollinators. Saturday, May 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., members of the…
It was a cold dismal late afternoon in Edgecomb. A soft thump sounded on the picture window outside in the damp cold. My husband slowly opened the storm door, peering outside. The small, limp body…
Sam and Kayda Selby of Wiscasset come every spring to Morris Farm’s annual plant sale. As usual Saturday, they got the heirloom tomatoes.
Pittston’s Jeff and Brenda Blodgett had never been…
The Garden Club of Wiscasset will have its next meeting on May 2 at Fellowship Hall of Congregational Church, 28 High St., in Wiscasset. Flower design practice with a May basket theme is at 11:30…
The Garden Club of Wiscasset's annual plant sale is 8:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 11 at the Wiscasset Municipal Building at Routes 1 and 27.
The club is known for healthy, robust plants…
Don’t miss the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District Spring Plant Sale & Garden Fair at Union Fairgrounds on Saturday, May 4 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, May 5 from 10 a.m.…
The Lincoln Home in Newcastle is pleased to welcome Jean Vose of Nobleboro to speak about Backyard Honey Bees and Pollinators on Monday, April 29 beginning at 3 p.m.
A beehive in or near…
The Lincoln Home
Jean Vose is an experienced master gardener, certified horticulturist and backyard beekeeper living in Nobleboro where she has created gardens to attract pollinators as well as the other…
Fondly called “the people’s garden,” CMBG has always been about volunteers. Our founders were all volunteers, offering freely of their time as well as their talent. In fact, CMBG was an all-…
Due to high interest, the Browntail moth information session has been moved from Rising Tide to the Edgecomb Eddy School, 175 Boothbay Road in Edgecomb, from 5-6:30 p.m. on April 4.
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Maine’s largest flower show returns to Portland’s Thompson’s Point for its third consecutive year. The 2019 Maine Flower Show, owned and produced by the nonprofit Maine Landscape and…
Garden Club of Wiscasset
The Medomak District of the Garden Club Federation of Maine will hold its annual meeting on Monday, May 6 at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. The District consists of The Bath Garden Club, which is…
One of the joys of summer in our region is witnessing the yearly return of our summer visitors. No, I am not referring to the crowds of vacationers and summer residents who will fill our streets…
The Maine Flower Show in Portland each March is always a joy, that something to look forward to in the midst of spring snow and mud month.
Last year, the stonework garden exhibits were…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s 2019 Spring Plant Sale Catalog is now available in print and online. This year’s sale will be held at the Union Fairgrounds on the weekend…
Boothbay Region Land Trust (BRLT) hosted its first lecture of 2019 on browntail moths last week. In spite of the icy roads, members of the public filled the lecture room at Oak Point Farm to hear…
All gardeners out there, both beginners and experienced, who enjoy growing new plants, will enjoy the fourth annual Saving Seeds Workshop and Seed Swap Day on Saturday, Jan. 26, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m…
The week of Oct. 22, over 40 volunteers worked at First Congregational Church in Wiscasset on a project which will save thousands of gallons of heating oil and make dozens of homes around Lincoln…
The Boothbay Region Garden Club’s “Mantle and Table” shop at the Festival of Trees event will feature beautiful holiday arrangements of live greens in unique containers designed by our very…
Saving seeds from your favorite plants and swapping them with friends is one of the best ways to share your love of gardening. Why save seeds? It can be economical, since a single flower can…
While I didn’t come upon a blue hookah smoking caterpillar on any of the mushrooms at Knickercane Park last week, I did discover a wide variety of mushrooms. It seems this year there’s an…
The walls of the Pemaquid Watershed Association office-gallery will soon be brightened with the fine art of quilting by the Clamshell Quilters, the Lincoln County chapter of the Pine Tree Quilters…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is joining the Bowdoin College Museum of Art for a collaboration celebrating the artistic talents of two New England botanists, watercolorist Kate Furbish and…
The next meeting of the Garden Club of Wiscasset is Oct. 4 in the Fellowship Hall of the First Congregational Church, 28 High St. in Wiscasset. There is a brief business meeting at 12:30 p.m.…
Seeds are living beings, just like you and me. And like us, they require the right conditions to thrive. This past summer brought environmental stressors for all of us, including our seeds.
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Kennebec Estuary Land Trust
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) is providing two free workshops focused on managing invasive plants on Sept. 16. Both programs will be held at KELT’s Sewall Woods Preserve and provide…
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers program in Knox, Lincoln and Waldo counties is accepting applications. Classes meet from 1 - 4:30 p.m., Oct. 4 through Nov…
Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers [KLCB] is pleased to welcome Maine's State Apiarist and Bee Inspector Jennifer Lund to their monthly outdoor meeting on Saturday, Aug. 4 at 10 a.m. Lund will speak…
Nonprofit WindowDressers' insulating window inserts fit inside your windows to let in all the sunlight and views while keeping more heat inside your home. The inserts are high quality and low cost…
Residents of ElderCare Network of Lincoln County look forward to the bright, warm days of summer. On Thursday mornings, between June and the end of August, the ElderCare van picks…
Clamshell Quilters, in conjunction with Area 2 of Pine Tree Quilters Guild, will be hosting a trunk show and workshop by Beth Helfter of EvaPaige Quilt Designs. The trunk show will be on Friday,…
Edgecomb’s annual iris sale will take place at the Edgecomb Community Church on Cross Point Road on Saturday, July 7 from 9 a.m. to noon or until inventory sells out. Funds will help to support…
Tickets - $30/advance and $35 on tour day - for the Boothbay Region Garden Club’s Home and Garden Tour, “The Sea Around Us” on Friday, July 20 are available at the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber…
Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers [KLCB] host their annual outdoor meeting on Saturday, June 23. The topic is " Organic Varroa Mite Control in Beehives " and will be held beginning at 9:30 a.m. at…
A common sentiment among gardeners is that it’s hard to achieve year-round color in the garden — especially true for Maine’s early spring, which could occur anywhere from late April to mid-June.…
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…
Get inspired for one’s own gardens
BOOTHBAY— If it’s rain, clouds or sunshine this weekend, it doesn’t matter. Mainers will be able to get into Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay for free this Saturday through Monday, May…
Skidompha Chat
On Tuesday, June 5 at 10 a.m., Skidompha Library’s Chats With Champions program will feature Bill Cullina, executive director of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG) in Boothbay Harbor. His…
Jane Carr comes from home in Camden to Morris Farm’s plant sale every spring for the heirloom tomatoes. Saturday’s sale was at least her fifth year, and was her first time attending since husband…
On Thursday, May 10, third-grade students from Mrs. Gregg’s, Mrs. Taylor’s, and Mrs. Pinkham’s classes at Great Salt Bay School in Damariscotta enjoyed a springtime class trip to Pinkham…
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…
Garden Club of Wiscasset members were thankful they got sun not rain Saturday for their annual plant sale in and outside the municipal building. The forecast changed and the sun came through with…
There’s nothing like being outside on a spring day. To finally feel warmth on your cheek, the wind through your hair … wait, what was that commercial? Oh dee flowers, oh dee trees, oh dee birds,…
