Sometimes in my job it is difficult to remember that I am at work. Yesterday, for example, after I got all of the various components of lunch service up to the counter, I felt exactly as though I had been getting ready for a dinner party. When I am getting ready for guests, I like …
Have you ever had a Meyer lemon? They are a favorite thing, A Meyer Lemon is a perfect cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange. They are smaller than a lemon and have the benefit of a thinner skin. They were brought to the U.S. from China in 1908 by Frank Meyer, an agricultural …
With the trees fully cleared from the eastside pasture restoration project site, the last few weeks have been a busy (and noisy) period of subsoiling and stump removal. Farm Manager Megan Philips and Cullen McGough check in to see how the subsoiling process works: More of the subsoiler in action: Learn more about the Eastside …
Eastside Pasture Restoration Project Update: Subsoiling Read More »
Two months ago, we set up a time-lapse camera in the high tunnel on Chewonki’s farm to catch the amazing growth of our tomatoes! It’s remarkable to see plant life, so often thought of as “unmoving,” visibly flex, turn and grow in rhythm with the passage of days.
With the dog days of summer behind us, it’s time to check in on our east-side pasture restoration project! At our last check, the restored pasture area was in the middle of a dramatic subsoiling process. Since then, the pasture has been seeded with a cover crop of jerry oats, and is now greening up nicely. …
A Harrowing Update from the East Side Pasture Project Read More »
This past summer, we were fortunate enough to have Bryce Leary return to us one more time as the program and activity director for boys camp. Bryce (a Chewonki camper and counselor who has been with us for 14 years!) had recently returned from a 26-month stint in the Peace Corps and we were eager …
11th Annual Chewonki Holiday Craft Fair Vendor Hall, Online Auction & Hayrides Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Join us to celebrate and support the midcoast crafting community with a host of local goods and goodies including fiber arts, wood carving, beeswax candles, and skin care products, sweet treats, paper goods, and other fun holiday gifts. More than 15 …
With snow on the trees and ice on Monsweag Bay, Boys Camp Assistant Director Henry Heyburn and Wilderness Trips Coordinator Jen Adams are visiting colleges and universities across the Northeast to meet young adults who might be outstanding camp counselors or wilderness trip leaders. “We want them to know about the great place Chewonki is …
Floating is one of the first things art teacher Sue West asked her students to do when they arrived for Maine Coast Semester 61 at Chewonki. On a late-summer afternoon, they splashed into Montsweag Brook’s salty water and then drifted, letting the tide carry them. “I asked them, Why float on the tide?” she says, …
Standing at the head of his portable sawmill, stationed in front of the Whitehouse, Mike Reed, a sawyer from Nobleboro, Maine, is sawing boards from white pines harvested on Chewonki Neck, transforming tree trunks into 2”- and ½”-lumber that Camp Chewonki boys will use next summer to make miniature wanigans*, toy boats, birdhouses, and other …
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