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Invasive Plants Walk
Join Georges River Land Trust and the St. George Conservation Commission for a walk on the Fort Point Trail in St. George to identify and discuss native and invasive plants found in the midcoast. The walk will help people improve their confidence in identifying the most common and emerging invasive plants and recommendations on how to remove and dispose of them. Our trip leader will be Nancy Olmstead, Invasive Plant Biologist with the Maine Natural Areas Program in the Maine…
Find out more »Saving our Apple Heritage
Join us for a presentation by John Bunker on his mission to save Maine's apple heritage. Bunker is known in Maine as “The Apple Whisperer,” or simply “The Apple Guy,” and, after laboring for years in semi-obscurity, he has never been in more demand. Through the catalog of Fedco Trees, a mail-order company he founded in Maine 30 years ago, Bunker has sown the seeds of a grassroots apple revolution. Fedco Trees every year takes a selection of rare heirloom…
Find out more »Sweet Cider Pressing Day
For the second year, we are hosting Langlais Sweet Cider Day! Charles Waite Maclin, also known as Pastor Chuck of Pastor Chuck's organic apple products, will be bringing his small cider press and the know-how to create some delicious cider with our own organic Langlais apples. Pastor Chuck's dream is to create the best applesauce and apple butter in the world, originated in his own family's kitchen in Cushing. He also works with the Cushing Community School and their Green…
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