Free summer farm tours at Aldermere Farm. (Photo courtesy Heidi Baker)
ROCKPORT This summer, Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s Aldermere Farm will host free tours for the public on these Fridays: 6/25, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/13, 9/10, 9/17, and 9/24. The tours will begin at 10 a.m., at the farmhouse, 20 Russell Ave in Rockport, and be led by volunteer docents who will share the history of this 200+ year old saltwater farm.
Attendees will meet Aldermere’s iconic Belted Galloway herd and the 4-H Club that works with them.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Attendees must wear facemasks and closed-toe shoes and children must be accompanied by an adult.
June is Pride Month and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s Erickson Fields Preserve are displaying art, photography and poetry by LGBTQ+ and allied youth for the whole month. The show is curated by OUT Maine and.
The nonprofit that’s devoted to keeping the Maine coast open, healthy, working, and beautiful
The Maine Coast Heritage Trust preserves are free and open to the public, which is a gift since everybody wants to be near the water Author: Rob Caldwell Updated: 4:50 PM EDT June 1, 2021
BRUNSWICK, Maine Maine has a coastline that’s nearly 3,500 miles long, and it is spectacular. But the catch is that less than five percent of it has guaranteed access to the public. That’s where the Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) comes in. Its mission is to make sure the coast remains “open, healthy, working, and beautiful.”
Schoodic volunteers sought for coastal clean-up
GOULDSBORO All next month volunteers are needed to collect plastic jugs, buckets, crushed soda cans, fishing float line, mangled wire lobster traps and other debris tossed up by the sea and cluttering the beaches and rocky shores of the Schoodic Peninsula.
Solid Waste Committee member Becky O’Keefe is asking year-round and seasonal residents in both Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor to sign up to participate in Schoodic Shines, a joint-town initiative, to scour the two Schoodic towns’ coastline and collect all manner of trash in special bags furnished by the Maine Department of Transportation and distributed for free at the Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor town offices. O’Keefe also is seeking Schoodic area fishermen to lend a helping hand on Sundays to transport collected traps and fishing gear to OceansWide’s Traps 2 Treasure recycling facility on the Walter Road off Route 1. She said disposing of damaged traps and obsolete gea