And Introduction to Kroka Expeditions methods in outdoor education: balancing freedom with responsibility, adventure with risk, community with independence. Participants will share philosophies and practical strategies for wilderness connection and nature education in the lives of children and families.
Games and activities exploring relationships in nature such as predators and prey (in Camp Kroka).
Go home with your own tin of lip balm using botanicals and ingredients from the Native Way gardens in Otisfield. Learn about the indigenous herbs most healing for your skin.
Folk & Roll
Old time string band music
Singing & Storytelling
We plan to talk a little bit about the vision and community-based programs at 317 Main St Community Music Center and we hope to have some of our students perform and talk about their experiences.
Updates about conservation initiatives in the Maine Woods.
Indie Folk
Folk, Bluegrass
Learn how to heal yourself in a pinch using weeds and wild plants from your backyard!
Old-tyme Fiddle
Join Eliot Coleman of Four Season Farm as he walks through the construction and use of quick hoops, an excellent tool for season extension.
Come learn from Pam Harwood, owner of Longwoods Farm Alpacas, about the versatility of alpaca, from start to finish!
Dehydration is an ancient, versatile technique for long term storage at room temperature that, done properly, protects the nutritional vitality of fruits and vegetables. This discussion does not include meat or dairy.
High-Energy Bluegrass Music
Learn about current grid-tied solar electric technologies and incentives at this in-depth talk from one of Maine's veteran solar experts. Hear how solar technology has evolved, where it's going, and best uses for solar in both new and existing homes.
Girl Scouting has changed in the last few years. Find out how "take action" projects help girls impact and engage in their local economies through sustainable programs, in addition to learning more about girl focused exploration of local agriculture and artistry.
Open show for Junior Poultry exhibitors - come see the many varieties and the talented kids who know how to raise them!
Old-time Eclectic
Blues-Infused Folk-Jazz
Old time string band music
Folk
Traditional Fiddle
Symphony of the Soil is a 104-minute documentary feature film that explores the complexity and mystery of soil. Filmed on four continents and sharing the voices of some of the world's most esteemed soil scientists, farmers and activists, the film portrays soil as a protaganist of our planetary story.
Using a captivating mix of art and science, the film shows that soils is a complex living organism, the foundation of life on earth. Yet, most people are soil-blind and "treat soil like dirt." Through the knowledge and wisdom revealed in this film, we can come to respect, even revere, this miraculous substance, and appreciate how treating the soil right can solve some of our most pressing environmental problems.
And Introduction to Kroka Expeditions methods in outdoor education: balancing freedom with responsibility, adventure with risk, community with independence. Participants will share philosophies and practical strategies for wilderness connection and nature education in the lives of children and families.
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts - Mudmobile
Women's sacred music
Morris Dancing!
Join two beekeepers – Theresa Gaffney of Highland Blueberry Farm in Stockton Springs, Maine, and David Hackenberg of Hackenberg Apiaries in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania – and two scientists – Dr. Frank Drummond of the University of Maine and Dr. Kimberly Stoner of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station – to discuss the importance of pollinators and explore possible explanations for the Colony Collapse Disorder mystery.
Tom and Theresa Gaffney’s Highland Blueberry Farm is celebrating its 10th year as a MOFGA-certified organic farm. They manage 25 acres of wild blueberry fields and sell value-added products, including the first “whole plant wild blueberry tea.” Theresa began keeping a beehive for pollinating and honey five years ago to explore solutions that might help large commercial beekeepers contend with mounting challenges to bee health. She describes herself as a "biodynamic" beekeeper, concerned about toxic exposures that she cannot control, fascinated by the question of whether we can "have a healthy bee even in an unhealthy environment."
David Hackenberg has been a commercial beekeeper for half a century. Operating out of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, he trucks his bees from Maine to Florida. In 2007, he lost 75 percent of his 3,200 colonies and was the first to report massive die-offs to Penn State researchers. These losses led him to suspect the impact of pesticides, particularly neonicotinoids. He has testified in Congress about CCD and is featured in the film Vanishing of the Bees and in various media reports, including 60 Minutes. He is past president of the American Beekeepers Federation and current co-chair of the National Honey Bee Advisory Board.
Dr. Frank Drummond has a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island and is a professor of entomology at the University of Maine. His research interests include pollination ecology, integrated pest management of blueberry pests in Maine, and conservation of native bees. He is completing a major collaborative research project following 30 honeybee colonies in each of seven states, exploring links between honeybee pathogens, pesticide diversity in pollen, foraging area in agriculture and honeybee colony health.
Dr. Kimberly Stoner has a Ph.D. in entomology from Cornell University and is associate agricultural scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Her research focuses on measuring pesticides in pollen and nectar, pollination of pumpkins and squash, and abundance and diversity of native bees on vegetable farms. She has a project measuring pesticides in pollen collected from honeybee hives, and measuring pesticides in the pollen and nectar of squash plants treated with systemic insecticides used in conventional farming.
The panel will be moderated by Sharon Tisher, who teaches environmental law in the University of Maine Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program.
Methods to take care of your ruminants health organically.
Old time string band music
Acapella Singing Group
Sacred Harp Music
Atlantic Americana
Family music
Accordion
Traditional NE fiddle tunes and folk songs
All ages puppet show featuring Peaks Island Puppets!
West African Music
Acoustic Roots Rock
Acoustic guitar
An update to the strategic plan for Maine. Our goal is to unite Mainers in a shared vision for the state, empowering folks to action across sectors to advance our common goal of economic prosperity without sacrificing the qualities we each hold dear.
Starts at the Round Pen, where the horse will be harnessed up. Then the team moves over to the Show Ring.
Old Time String Band Music
Steel drum music for all!
Folk, Fiddle & Bluegrass
Indie-Folk
In partnership with the Greenhorns, Maine apprentices are hosting a Speed Weeding//Speed Dating event! Make a new friend or meet your future sweetheart while weeding a perennial herb bed at the Mackie Family Farm. A post-weeding mixer will provide herbal seltzers and donated snacks for participants, along with the showing of a couple of short videos. Bring a mason jar and a flashlight.
Bluegrass
When pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, the backlash from her critics thrust her into the center of a political maelstrom. Despite her love of privacy, Carson's convictions about the risks posed by chemical pesticides forced her into a very public and controversial role. Using many of Miss Carson's own words, actress Kaiulani Lee embodies this extraordinary woman in the documentary-style film, which depicts Carson in the final year of her life. Struggling with cancer, Carson recounts with both humor and anger the attacks by the chemical industry, the government, and the press as she focuses her limited energy to get her message to Congress and the American people.
A summary of the typical attributes of ME Soils, with an emphasis on formation factors (particularly parent material) and agronomic suitabilities.
Mobile high tunnel demonstration made with local materials, funded by a NRCS grant.
And Introduction to Kroka Expeditions methods in outdoor education: balancing freedom with responsibility, adventure with risk, community with independence. Participants will share philosophies and practical strategies for wilderness connection and nature education in the lives of children and families.
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts - Mudmobile
Original, contemporary, and traditional Folk
Methods to take care of your ruminant's health organically.
From bottle-feeding to full size, learn the practicalities of feed training, breed temperments, vaccinations and care
Traditional Folk
juggling, stiltwalker
Sacred Harp Music
Eclectic Folk
The Seafood Throwdown is a competition where two local chefs engage in a culinary battle of skill and creativity with the secret local seafood ingredient. This year, we are pleased to have chef Kerry Altiero of Cafe Miranda in Rockland and sous chef William Zbylot of the SlipWay Restaurant in Thomaston competing. Each chef will bring their favorite cooking vessels/utensils, presentation plates and three of their favorite ingredients. At the Common Ground Fair they will discover the secret seafood ingredient, be given $25 and 15 minutes to use the farmers market as their pantry, and then an hour to prepare, cook and plate their dish for three judges.
Our judges, representing fishing villages from around the coast of Maine, will be Kim Libby- Fisherman's Wife (Port Clyde); Aaron Dority- Penobscot East Resource Center (Stonington); and Will Bleakley - DownEast Magazine (Rockland). Tastes of the chefs dishes will be available on a limited basis.
Come watch the chefs from your favorite restaurants compete in preparing sustainable, locally-caught seafood. Support your local fishermen and fishing communities by buying local seafood!
Acoustic Folkdance
Clog Dancing
Ethnic Music, Drum Melodies
Folk
Downeast Friends of the Folk Arts invites dancers of all ages to join us for a Sunday afternoon contra dance.
Cheryl will do a cooking demonstration using locally grown organic produce and Dr. Timothy Howe will present a health lecture teaching the powerful benefits of a Whole Food Plant Based Diet to reversing Type 2 Diabetes, Heart Disease and Cancer.
Americana
Garage rock