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I will 'bold' the topics that interest me the most.
Friday at 9am is:
Bicycle Demos and Safe Bike Driver Forum,
Bike Trailer Builder Forum, Artisan Hearth Bread from Locally Grown Grains, Cooking & Baking with a Wood Fired Oven,
Tours of the Fair's Compost & Recycling Operation, Multi-Use Homestead Tool Demo,
Garden Tool Demos,
Fleece Sale,
Weave on the Garden Loom, Restorative Harvest [this is actually low-impact forest gardening],
Horse Drawn Rides,
How to Assemble an Owl Stool.
At 10am is: How and Why to Keep Bees in Top Bar Hives [though I already have one],
Bike Parade!
Celebrate Wheeled Mobility (Bells Required),
Cooking for Kids,
Vegetable Flower & Fruit Judging,
Farmstead Tour,
Homestead Technology, Mowing Techniques for European Scythe [I have one of these it is great],
Answers to Your Organic Vegetable Questions, Intro to No-Dig,
Weed-Free Garden Beds,
Organic Lawncare: Insects and Weeds as Messengers,
Wet & Dry Seed Processing Demo,
What Forests and Prairies Can Teach Us,
Mohair: The Diamond Fiber,
Forestry for Kids,
Funding Your Forestry Projects with the Natural Resources Conservation Service,
Native American Games,
Preventing Cesarean Deliveries,
Receive Seated or Table Reiki, Invasive Plants for Food and Medicine [I just harvested a bunch of resveratrol],
Are You Ready for a Horse?
Border Collie Demos,
Clipping Your Mules for Show & Work,
Draft Horse Basics,
Equine Acupressure & Shiatsu Demos,
How to Prepare Sheep for Show,
Jonboy Nemo & the Burnt Beard Band,
The Little World,
Hot Topics in Civil Liberties,
Efficiency Maine Programs for Homeowners,
Bow Making,
Cinnamon Rolls over Open Fire,
Class: How to Knit Socks $10,
Class: Make a Wooden Spatula $12,
Class: Porcupine Quills on Birch Bark $5,
Class: Stencil a Bookmark,
Living the Energetic Life,
Growing Learners and Growing Food at Maine's Academy of Natural Sciences
at 11am: Getting Started with Beekeeping: Organically,
Forum: History of the Bicycle Bring a 'Classic' to Share,
Serving Bean Hole Beans, Homestead-Friendly Tools,
Answers to Questions About Being a Farm Apprentice,
Beginning Seed Saving for the Home Gardener, Garlic Cultivation Demo,
Natural History of Excavated Soil Pit on Fairgrounds,
Seed Starting 101,
Making Felt, Foraging for Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms,
Human-Powered Logging,
Modern Chainsaw Techniques,
Your Body of Waters - Deeper Dimensions, Herbal First Aid,
We've Come a Long Way,
Harness Fit & Function,
Producing Quality Forage,
Raising Heritage Breed Pigs,
Greenfields,
Milkweed Puppet Theater,
Is Big Wind Big Trouble?
Storytelling and Mosaics,
Solar Hot Water Basics: A Practical Approach, Ash Tree Pounding Demo,
Class: Felting $12,
Make Natural Fiber Cordage,
Polarity Therapy & Other Vital Wellness Solutions,
THMS Garden Project Overview and Solar Project
at noon:
Easy Bike Fit Forum,
Cooking for Kids,
Root Cellars,
Sharpening the European Scythe Blade,
Advanced Seed Saving,
What Is Permaculture,
Everything You Wanted to Know About Firewood,
Reflexology & Your Wellbeing, Growing and Using Medicinal Herbs,
Border Collie Demos,
Cows on Parade,
Good Pasture Mgmt.
Horse Hoof Care,
Introducing the Horse to Harness and Driving a Cart Step 1,
Selecting Stock for Your Home Flock,
Sheep Hoof Trimming & Care,
Learn to Play the Spoons,
Whiffle Tree, Transition Towns: Building Sustainable Communities,
Energy Audit Is the First Step to Save Energy,
Mentoring Skills,
Process Acorns into Flour,
Weaving a Potato Basket Demo, Tasting Sustainability
at 1pm: Setting up Your Beehive,
Women's Tyre Repair,
Climate Change: Where We Stand, What To Do? Intro. to Vermicomposting,
The Gulf of Maine: What Seafood Is Available When,
Mowing Techniques for European Scythe,
What Is More Important, Local or Organic? Managing Pests in the Home Garden,
Using Green Manures in Gardens & on Farms,
Wet & Dry Seed Processing Demo,
Maine's Rare Sheep Breeds, Foraging and Wild Plant Walk,
Moving Wood the Low-Impact Way: Draft Animals, Intro. to Qigong - Chinese Medicine in Motion,
History, Lore and Healing Properties of Baltic Amber,
Care and Use of Mules,
Choosing the Best Goats for You,
First Steps: Building Trust & Communication with Your Horse,
Helping Lambs Survive Their First 24 Hours,
Ox Yoking Demo,
Bound to Have a Little Fun String Band,
Answers to Your Certification Questions,
Thinking Nonviolently – Building a Future,
Storytelling and Mosaics,
Interior Storm Window Insert Demo,
Class: Paint a Fan in Country Paint Style,
Intro. to Home Funerals,
Organize a Cooking Fire,
You Don't Know till You Know: Energy Medicine,
Waldorf Handwork Curriculum and the Developing Child
2pm:
Bike Parade!
Celebrate Wheeled Mobility, Backyard Grain Growing, Humanure: A Solution to Climate Change,
Global Worming: Worm Composting,
Kids as Future Chefs, Apple Tasting, [they commonly compare 30 to 40 varieties of apple] Building & Using a Low-Cost Walk-in Cooler,
What to Look for When Purchasing an Older Tractor, Growing Lavender in Maine,
Soils of Maine,
Drop Spinning,
Saw Mill Demo,
Woodland Ecology: Invasives,
Mercury Amalgam Toxicity & Chelation, Wonderful St Johnswort,
Answers to Your Organic Livestock Questions,
Border Collie Demos,
Harnessing a Horse,
Introducing the Horse to Harness and Driving a Cart Step 2,
Measuring Internal Parasites in Sheep & Goats,
Riding Cultivator Demo,
Training Donkeys to Cart,
Your Family Dairy Cow: Elite Food Security,
Following Our Oral Tradition with Teaching Stories,
Milkweed Puppet Theater,
Sassafras Stomp,
Increasing Food Access Through Incentive Programs,
Building Science & Home Energy Performance,
Class: How to Knit Socks $10,
Fire by Friction,
Knots and Lashing,
How Do You Compost a Whale: Composting 101
at 3pm:
Recumbent Choices,
Forum Ride Pain Free,
How to Construct a Traditional Pompeii-type Brick Oven,
Home Composting & Vermiculture, Homestead Technology, Homestead-Friendly Tools,
Conserving Farmland for the Next Generation,
Biodynamics & Permaculture: Exploring Synergy,
Wet & Dry Seed Processing Demo,
Choosing the Right Fleece, Traditional Healing with Medicinal Mushrooms,
Treating Injuries with Homeopathy, Cooking with Herbs,
Basic Horselogging,
Calm the Nervous Horse,
Care and Use of Mules,
How to Pick & Skirt a Handspinning Fleece,
Raising Goats 101,
Jim GallantTBD,
History of Medical Marijuana in Maine,
Deep Energy,
Home Retrofits - Cut Fuel Costs by 60%
Awareness Skills,
Class: Felting $12,
Make Apple Crumble on Open Fire,
LifeBreath,
Becoming an Environmental Leader
at 4pm:
Electric Bike Forum,
Simple Family Living in a Modern World, Old World/New World Crops, Maine Mushroom Foraging, Pelvic Organ Prolapse [I have had to to surgery on this twice so far], Plant Nutrients And Cancer Suppression Evidence,
Draft Horse Basics,
Goat Milking Demo,
Why I Enjoy the Common Ground Fair,
Peak Oil, Energy and Economic Update,
Homemade Outdoor Baby Gear,
Shelter Building,
Nature Exploration in Farm & School Gardens.
I will 'bold' the topics that interest me the most.
Friday at 9am is:
Bicycle Demos and Safe Bike Driver Forum,
Bike Trailer Builder Forum, Artisan Hearth Bread from Locally Grown Grains, Cooking & Baking with a Wood Fired Oven,
Tours of the Fair's Compost & Recycling Operation, Multi-Use Homestead Tool Demo,
Garden Tool Demos,
Fleece Sale,
Weave on the Garden Loom, Restorative Harvest [this is actually low-impact forest gardening],
Horse Drawn Rides,
How to Assemble an Owl Stool.
At 10am is: How and Why to Keep Bees in Top Bar Hives [though I already have one],
Bike Parade!
Celebrate Wheeled Mobility (Bells Required),
Cooking for Kids,
Vegetable Flower & Fruit Judging,
Farmstead Tour,
Homestead Technology, Mowing Techniques for European Scythe [I have one of these it is great],
Answers to Your Organic Vegetable Questions, Intro to No-Dig,
Weed-Free Garden Beds,
Organic Lawncare: Insects and Weeds as Messengers,
Wet & Dry Seed Processing Demo,
What Forests and Prairies Can Teach Us,
Mohair: The Diamond Fiber,
Forestry for Kids,
Funding Your Forestry Projects with the Natural Resources Conservation Service,
Native American Games,
Preventing Cesarean Deliveries,
Receive Seated or Table Reiki, Invasive Plants for Food and Medicine [I just harvested a bunch of resveratrol],
Are You Ready for a Horse?
Border Collie Demos,
Clipping Your Mules for Show & Work,
Draft Horse Basics,
Equine Acupressure & Shiatsu Demos,
How to Prepare Sheep for Show,
Jonboy Nemo & the Burnt Beard Band,
The Little World,
Hot Topics in Civil Liberties,
Efficiency Maine Programs for Homeowners,
Bow Making,
Cinnamon Rolls over Open Fire,
Class: How to Knit Socks $10,
Class: Make a Wooden Spatula $12,
Class: Porcupine Quills on Birch Bark $5,
Class: Stencil a Bookmark,
Living the Energetic Life,
Growing Learners and Growing Food at Maine's Academy of Natural Sciences
at 11am: Getting Started with Beekeeping: Organically,
Forum: History of the Bicycle Bring a 'Classic' to Share,
Serving Bean Hole Beans, Homestead-Friendly Tools,
Answers to Questions About Being a Farm Apprentice,
Beginning Seed Saving for the Home Gardener, Garlic Cultivation Demo,
Natural History of Excavated Soil Pit on Fairgrounds,
Seed Starting 101,
Making Felt, Foraging for Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms,
Human-Powered Logging,
Modern Chainsaw Techniques,
Your Body of Waters - Deeper Dimensions, Herbal First Aid,
We've Come a Long Way,
Harness Fit & Function,
Producing Quality Forage,
Raising Heritage Breed Pigs,
Greenfields,
Milkweed Puppet Theater,
Is Big Wind Big Trouble?
Storytelling and Mosaics,
Solar Hot Water Basics: A Practical Approach, Ash Tree Pounding Demo,
Class: Felting $12,
Make Natural Fiber Cordage,
Polarity Therapy & Other Vital Wellness Solutions,
THMS Garden Project Overview and Solar Project
at noon:
Easy Bike Fit Forum,
Cooking for Kids,
Root Cellars,
Sharpening the European Scythe Blade,
Advanced Seed Saving,
What Is Permaculture,
Everything You Wanted to Know About Firewood,
Reflexology & Your Wellbeing, Growing and Using Medicinal Herbs,
Border Collie Demos,
Cows on Parade,
Good Pasture Mgmt.
Horse Hoof Care,
Introducing the Horse to Harness and Driving a Cart Step 1,
Selecting Stock for Your Home Flock,
Sheep Hoof Trimming & Care,
Learn to Play the Spoons,
Whiffle Tree, Transition Towns: Building Sustainable Communities,
Energy Audit Is the First Step to Save Energy,
Mentoring Skills,
Process Acorns into Flour,
Weaving a Potato Basket Demo, Tasting Sustainability
at 1pm: Setting up Your Beehive,
Women's Tyre Repair,
Climate Change: Where We Stand, What To Do? Intro. to Vermicomposting,
The Gulf of Maine: What Seafood Is Available When,
Mowing Techniques for European Scythe,
What Is More Important, Local or Organic? Managing Pests in the Home Garden,
Using Green Manures in Gardens & on Farms,
Wet & Dry Seed Processing Demo,
Maine's Rare Sheep Breeds, Foraging and Wild Plant Walk,
Moving Wood the Low-Impact Way: Draft Animals, Intro. to Qigong - Chinese Medicine in Motion,
History, Lore and Healing Properties of Baltic Amber,
Care and Use of Mules,
Choosing the Best Goats for You,
First Steps: Building Trust & Communication with Your Horse,
Helping Lambs Survive Their First 24 Hours,
Ox Yoking Demo,
Bound to Have a Little Fun String Band,
Answers to Your Certification Questions,
Thinking Nonviolently – Building a Future,
Storytelling and Mosaics,
Interior Storm Window Insert Demo,
Class: Paint a Fan in Country Paint Style,
Intro. to Home Funerals,
Organize a Cooking Fire,
You Don't Know till You Know: Energy Medicine,
Waldorf Handwork Curriculum and the Developing Child
2pm:
Bike Parade!
Celebrate Wheeled Mobility, Backyard Grain Growing, Humanure: A Solution to Climate Change,
Global Worming: Worm Composting,
Kids as Future Chefs, Apple Tasting, [they commonly compare 30 to 40 varieties of apple] Building & Using a Low-Cost Walk-in Cooler,
What to Look for When Purchasing an Older Tractor, Growing Lavender in Maine,
Soils of Maine,
Drop Spinning,
Saw Mill Demo,
Woodland Ecology: Invasives,
Mercury Amalgam Toxicity & Chelation, Wonderful St Johnswort,
Answers to Your Organic Livestock Questions,
Border Collie Demos,
Harnessing a Horse,
Introducing the Horse to Harness and Driving a Cart Step 2,
Measuring Internal Parasites in Sheep & Goats,
Riding Cultivator Demo,
Training Donkeys to Cart,
Your Family Dairy Cow: Elite Food Security,
Following Our Oral Tradition with Teaching Stories,
Milkweed Puppet Theater,
Sassafras Stomp,
Increasing Food Access Through Incentive Programs,
Building Science & Home Energy Performance,
Class: How to Knit Socks $10,
Fire by Friction,
Knots and Lashing,
How Do You Compost a Whale: Composting 101
at 3pm:
Recumbent Choices,
Forum Ride Pain Free,
How to Construct a Traditional Pompeii-type Brick Oven,
Home Composting & Vermiculture, Homestead Technology, Homestead-Friendly Tools,
Conserving Farmland for the Next Generation,
Biodynamics & Permaculture: Exploring Synergy,
Wet & Dry Seed Processing Demo,
Choosing the Right Fleece, Traditional Healing with Medicinal Mushrooms,
Treating Injuries with Homeopathy, Cooking with Herbs,
Basic Horselogging,
Calm the Nervous Horse,
Care and Use of Mules,
How to Pick & Skirt a Handspinning Fleece,
Raising Goats 101,
Jim GallantTBD,
History of Medical Marijuana in Maine,
Deep Energy,
Home Retrofits - Cut Fuel Costs by 60%
Awareness Skills,
Class: Felting $12,
Make Apple Crumble on Open Fire,
LifeBreath,
Becoming an Environmental Leader
at 4pm:
Electric Bike Forum,
Simple Family Living in a Modern World, Old World/New World Crops, Maine Mushroom Foraging, Pelvic Organ Prolapse [I have had to to surgery on this twice so far], Plant Nutrients And Cancer Suppression Evidence,
Draft Horse Basics,
Goat Milking Demo,
Why I Enjoy the Common Ground Fair,
Peak Oil, Energy and Economic Update,
Homemade Outdoor Baby Gear,
Shelter Building,
Nature Exploration in Farm & School Gardens.
That is the first day. So many choices.
Anyone else?
What would you like to attend? Why?
Thats quite a list- thanks for posting forest
here's a couple i'd like to see
"how to make your own Allens coffee brandy"
'how to field dress a deer by moonlight"
How to make bean-hole baked beans
'Having a pigroast? How to cook in the earth"
Miss Vegetarian pageant and vegan pole-dancing
How to drop trees beside the road, and save money on firewood
"free hollistic massages"
"how to live off the grid, with solar power demo's, windmills, or how to hijack your neighbors, wi-fi, tv dish/cable
"How to make a refuse burn barrel into an energy generator"
I'll be helping out in the Poultry Barn on Friday. After the judging is over, my plan is to roam! Food will be the first goal.
Honestly, one of my favorite things is the...ready.....dried legumes! There's a man who brings the most incredible variety of shell beans. Really, I love it all. I don't have any set plan to attend workshops this year as I'm not sure how long I'll be involved with the poultry.
It looks like I will be attending on Saturday only, at least as it stands now. On Saturday 11am, I will be in the country kitchen, doing the bean flour demo.
Bummer!!! Maybe I'll just have to come back on Saturday...
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Doesn't seem to be a link I can pull up, is it just me?
