As writers and artists, Rob, Aran, & Margot Lee Shetterly will explore the failures and successes in history in order to plan better for a more just future. Rob Shetterly is the artist behind Americans Who Tell the Truth, a portrait series honoring those who stand for justice and the common good — joined here...
“Turn Off the Machines” — a public screening of a new film about the alternative lifestyle of Ethan Hughes and his family of Belfast, Maine. Suggested donation: $10
In this talk we'll see how the Nearings use economy has evolved into the maker movement and Fabcities. Fabcities are cities that produce everything they make using a circular economy. Atoms cycle locally while ideas, designs and best practices flow globally and open source. Lonnie Gamble is a professor, educator, and sustainability leader working across...
Sourdough 101: What is Sourdough? A workshop and in-depth conversation about Fermented Bread and Culture for all levels of skill and experience. Bring your questions and curiosity and take home some starter. Suggested donation: $10
In this conversation, Eliot Coleman & Barbara Damrosch will share stories of Scott & Helen Nearing—the homesteaders who shaped their lives—and explore what the Nearings' revolutionary politics and radical experiment in simple living still has to teach a world hungry for alternatives. Barbara Damrosch has been growing food and writing about it for nearly fifty...
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In 1976, inspired by the ideas of Helen and Scott Nearing, Sherrie Lovler and Norm Lee began a back-to-the-land life in upstate New York. They later founded The Good Life Get-Together, a yearly summer gathering with workshops for those drawn to the back-to-the-land movement and published Homesteaders News magazine for over nine years. Helen and...
Thousands of people have visited the Nearings' final homestead, at The Good Life Center, in Harborside, Maine, and many have seen the Bullfrog documentary film about their lives. At this gathering, Greg Joly will offer live commentary on the Nearings' homesteads, their life-ways, and the political and economic radicalism that undergirded everything they built. Greg...
In this talk, Sarah Speare, CEO and co-founder of Tootie’s Tempeh will share the story of how a food company stood up to nearly every norm in business to become best in its category. Sarah Speare is the CEO and co-founder of Tootie's Tempeh, a worker-owned cooperative in Biddeford. Tootie's is the first commercial tempeh...
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Archaeological sites along the Maine coast show that swordfish existed in the Gulf of Maine between approximately 5,500 and 3,700 years ago. Excavations at multiple Maine sites have produced swordfish rostra, vertebrae, and other remains, indicating that Wabanaki ancestors harvested and processed these large fish for millennia. In this presentation, Dr. Bonnie Newsom will discuss...
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