In a hands-on, immersive workshop, writer and noodler Lola Milholland—owner of Umi Organic in Portland, Oregon—shares her love and knowledge of Japanese noodle soup. Join us in making springy hand-cut udon noodles from scratch. We’ll forage for seaweed during low tide, learn to harvest and dry, and participants will take home a small personal supply of Cobscook Bay wild-harvested […]

With a focus on Evolutionary history of seaweed as the foundation of the marine food web: birds and multiple tropha of sea tiny sea creaturesMegan McOsker grew up in Rhode Island, where she spent as much time as possible in and around the ocean in the company of the coastal inhabitants such as horseshoe crabs, […]

Hosted by Downeast Salmon FederationFull Details: https://www.mainesalmonrivers.org/annual-smelt-fryDowneast Salmon Federation held its first Smelt Fry back in 2001 with a modest gathering of just 50 people.  Since then, it has become an […]

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, […]

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 […]

Thanks to Librarian Lysa Intrator, Reversing Hall will be open two days per week during the 2025 season:From May 1-October 1, 2025Fridays 1-3pmSundays 1-3pmWe intend our "open hours" to make the collection accessible to users. The collection is also open by special appointment for school groups, researchers, artists and others. We especially welcome workshop attendees, campers, […]

Thanks to Librarian Lysa Intrator, Reversing Hall will be open two days per week during the 2025 season:From May 1-October 1, 2025Fridays 1-3pmSundays 1-3pmWe intend our "open hours" to make the collection accessible to users. The collection is also open by special appointment for school groups, researchers, artists and others. We especially welcome workshop attendees, campers, […]

Thanks to Librarian Lysa Intrator, Reversing Hall will be open two days per week during the 2025 season:From May 1-October 1, 2025Fridays 1-3pmSundays 1-3pmWe intend our "open hours" to make the collection accessible to users. The collection is also open by special appointment for school groups, researchers, artists and others. We especially welcome workshop attendees, campers, […]

Thanks to Librarian Lysa Intrator, Reversing Hall will be open two days per week during the 2025 season:From May 1-October 1, 2025Fridays 1-3pmSundays 1-3pmWe intend our "open hours" to make the collection accessible to users. The collection is also open by special appointment for school groups, researchers, artists and others. We especially welcome workshop attendees, campers, […]

Thanks to Librarian Lysa Intrator, Reversing Hall will be open two days per week during the 2025 season:From May 1-October 1, 2025Fridays 1-3pmSundays 1-3pmWe intend our "open hours" to make the collection accessible to users. The collection is also open by special appointment for school groups, researchers, artists and others. We especially welcome workshop attendees, campers, […]

Hosted by The Cobscook InstituteFull Details: https://cobscookinstitute.org/birdfestThe annual Down East Spring Birding Festival provides a unique birding experience during spring migration and the breeding season with four days of guided hikes, boat tours, and presentations, all led by local guides with local knowledge. The Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife has named the Downeast Spring Birding […]

We welcome school groups by prior arrangement to a preview day of the Pennamaquan Alewife Festival, with learning experiences led by fish biologists and participatory projects led by Greenhorns artists.Email [email protected] […]

Thanks to Librarian Lysa Intrator, Reversing Hall will be open two days per week during the 2025 season:From May 1-October 1, 2025Fridays 1-3pmSundays 1-3pmWe intend our "open hours" to make the collection accessible to users. The collection is also open by special appointment for school groups, researchers, artists and others. We especially welcome workshop attendees, campers, […]

It is Spring planting time again and we are happy to offer seedling pre-orders again this year. This link will take you to the Google form to fill out. The deadline for filling out is 5/19 for most pickups. We do have limited spots for an early pickup, the week before the seedling sale, but […]