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.
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 are delightful shared group meals for those who stay on.
Our purpose with this programming is to share our love of the seaweed and wild ecology of the inter-tide, to keep learning and to learn and work in an embodied community of practice. The teachers join us in the water. Kacie Loparto has been learning / teaching seaweed for more than 12 years. The teachers we have chosen reflect some of the areas we feel are important for seaweed stewardship- read on for the afternoon workshop descriptions.
For more information on our theory of change, please read the Seaweed Commons position paper and articles www.seaweedcommons.org. Our goal is to grow a vibrant community of care to protect our access, our coastal ecology and our beloved ocean.
Harvesters must register with the Low Low Tides 2025 — Registration Form, and must obtain proper licensing. (We’ll help!)
We hand-harvest from Cobscook Bay and the nearby Bold Coast. We dry in our greenhouses, for Smithereen Farm to process in for commercial, value-added products like seaweed sprinkle, salt, broth mix, bath soak, and newly added this year… kelp soap! We think that the beautiful and intense physical practice of seaweed wild harvest is a great time for those who are passionate and/or curious on this subject to come, in person, and expose their thinking to the cold water and extreme tides. We offer simple indoor lodging for those interested in joining, and for committed harvesters who can join for the duration, we guide you in obtaining the appropriate licensing and pay for your harvest.
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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