Events
Smithereen Farm hosts workshops in collaboration with our sister organization, Greenhorns.
- Greenhorns offers free and low-cost events for the benefit of the local and regional community. If you are able to donate beyond the affordable cost of a workshop, or if you enjoy a free event, consider making a tax deductible donation to Greenhorns to support the actual costs of this and future programming so we can keep these accessible. Thank you!
- Workshops require advance registration; follow the registration link within the workshop description.
- Coming for an event and want to stay a while? You can book a campsite at the farm.
- REFUND POLICY Due to our rural location and small event sizes workshop registrations are not refundable.
Join us for a week of immersive seaweed harvest.
Harvesting, drying, recipes, ecology, and natural history adventures in the low low tides. Downeast Maine is famous for our 22-foot tides, and the cold Labrador current creates extraordinary algal abundance.
Join Smithereen Farm Seaweed Captain, Kacie Loparto, and other curious people for a week of learning, harvesting, processing, and eating together!
We will cover the ecology and biology of the seaweed ecosystem, hand-harvest techniques, regulations, drying, processing and cultivation of the wild algae species that abound in our area.
We will help you obtain the proper license for harvesting. Lodging provided, paid work available for committed harvesters.
Registration required: Low Low Tides 2025 — Registration Form
SCHEDULE
June 25: Arrival
Jocie Islelin Artist Presentation
Artist/Author: “Curious World of Seaweed”
Jocie will present her work and methods, her book and approach to entrancing and entraining more humans into the curious world of seaweed. She tracks the historical roots of amateur phycology, indigenous stories, science applications, and her new study and collaborations on wild kelp conservation.
June 26-27: Harvesting, processing, drying, learning!
Registration required: Low Low Tides 2025 — Registration Form