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Getting Creative with Nature’s Canvas (online)

Are you just itching to express some creative energy? In this workshop, youth will get to explore all the creativity the environment has to offer. By collecting and utilizing the nature found in your daily life, we’ll create marvelous bean mosaics, sun print cyanotypes, potato block print scenes, and pinecone gnome sculptures. Youth are encouraged […]

Event Series 4-H Aquarium Club (online)

4-H Aquarium Club (online)

The 4-H Aquarium Club is open to youth ages 5–18 who are interested in being members of a community of youth aquarium hobbyists. This group is for youth who already have an aquarium hobby, or who are looking to start one, to come together to talk about their love for fish and aquaria. The club […]

Squid Dissection (online)

Youth will learn about the anatomy of a squid during this hands-on dissection, led by Melissa from UMaine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR). Your frozen squid will be mailed to your home before the workshop along with some basic dissection tools. We’ll meet on Zoom to do the dissection together as a group. Register […]

Event Series Natural Science Journaling (online)

Natural Science Journaling (online)

In this 5-week workshop series, we will become natural scientists as we observe, describe, and draw the patterns we find in nature. Combining scientific observations with drawing, we will work on developing our attention to detail as we explore the big and small natural patterns all around us. You do not need to be good […]

Event Series Tick Trackers (online)

Tick Trackers (online)

Join the mission to monitor and study ticks in your community. Join Farmer Kristin of Lone Spruce Farm and Carla from the 4-H Tick Project for an interactive exploration of ticks in Maine. This workshop will explore ticks by collecting and preserving your own, identifying species, investigating where ticks are found in Maine, taking safety […]

Event Series Fermentation Friday

Fermentation Friday: More Cheese, Please!

UMaine Food Lab, Hitchner Hall Room 160

Fermentation Friday takes place at the University of Maine in Orono. During Fermentation Friday, held at the UMaine Food Lab in Hitchner Hall, participants cook, create, share, and connect. Using recipes as starting points, we explore fermentation, ​storytelling, food rescue, and local food systems. This session will focus on fermenting cheese - we will work […]

Event Series Fermentation Friday

Fermentation Friday: Bokashi, a Composting method using fermentation

UMaine Food Lab, Hitchner Hall Room 160

Fermentation Friday takes place at the University of Maine in Orono. During Fermentation Friday, held at the UMaine Food Lab in Hitchner Hall, participants cook, create, share, and connect. Using recipes as starting points, we explore fermentation, ​storytelling, food rescue, and local food systems. This session will focus on fermenting cheese - we will work […]

Event Series Fermentation Friday

Fermentation Friday: Garum is back, and so is Kimchi

UMaine Food Lab, Hitchner Hall Room 160

Fermentation Friday takes place at the University of Maine in Orono. During Fermentation Friday, held at the UMaine Food Lab in Hitchner Hall, participants cook, create, share, and connect. Using recipes as starting points, we explore fermentation, ​storytelling, food rescue, and local food systems. This session will focus on fermenting cheese - we will work […]

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