Events

Permablitzes are day-long work parties that put permaculture design into action! Imagine more than twenty permaculture folks working side-by-side for six hours resulting in more than 180 labor hours completed in one day, great fun, conversation, and camaraderie as well as experiential learning for all!

If you’re a Maine resident, stop by anytime during Memorial Day Weekend – Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, May 25-27 – to enjoy all that Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has to offer, and you can see and do it all with no admission fee.

Experience the sights and sounds of marsh creatures under the full moon.

If you’re a Maine resident, stop by anytime during Memorial Day Weekend – Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, May 25-27 – to enjoy all that Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has to offer, and you can see and do it all with no admission fee.

The group will view a 30-minute section of Eric Toensmeier’s DVD on Perennial Vegetables (the segment that focuses on species for our climate) to warm up the conversation.  Then folks will share info on growing experiences and resource knowledge.

Join Permaculture Designer David Homa of Post Carbon Designs and Resilient Roots, at his homestead in Otisfield, where he is in his 4th year of implementing a Food Forest garden filled with many different types of thriving plant polycultures, ponds and season extension structures.

Run or walk at one of the most scenic and special places in Maine and support the Scarborough Marsh.

If you’re a Maine resident, stop by anytime during Memorial Day Weekend – Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, May 25-27 – to enjoy all that Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has to offer, and you can see and do it all with no admission fee.

Now’s the time to plant spring flowers!

In heavily forested Maine, large grasslands are uncommon, and so are the birds for which they provide habitat.  This ecologically significant area hosts several state endangered species, and provides habitat for some of the rarest breeding birds in Maine.