March! A month of dramatic changes at Chewonki! Three back-to-back nor’easters (including today’s wild storm) have dumped fresh snow on the Neck with the promise of more to come: March is also the season for sheep-shearing: Not only does the annual shearing provide wool for the fiber arts center, it helps to prepare the pregnant …
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 …
Wiscasset, Maine. On Saturday, March 3rd, Chewonki and the Morris Farm will play co-hosts to the 4th annual Food Security Forum, a daylong gathering of policy makers, hunger relief agencies, restaurant owners, farmers, neighbors and students engaged in improving Maine’s food systems, and securing healthy nutritious food for everyone. This year’s theme “Food is Medicine: …
Those of you “from away” (the local phrase used to describe anyone who doesn’t live in Maine) have likely never experienced the mid-winter madness that comes with the month of February. The fun and glitz of the winter holidays are long over, the spring thaw is still months away, and everyone is beginning to feel …
On Wednesday, 43 high school juniors from California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Texas arrived at Chewonki with a rush of fresh energy. Fielding questions from students and parents was Maine Coast Semester Head Susan Feibelman, in her element. She and her faculty had been thinking and talking …
Imbolc is the name of the first spring festival in the pagan calendar, representing “the first breath,” stirrings in the earth of growth to come. Here in frigid New England, spring seems such a long way away, yet in “Old” England, lambs will be buzzing around the fields, snowdrops will be poking through any snow …
Chewonki Foundation has announced the start of a new 5-part series of “Animal Adventures,” providing hands-on learning for kids and adults of all ages. The monthly program features live animals, fossils, skeletons and a wide collection of touchable natural history exhibits. “I’m really excited to be offering some of our wildlife presentations here at Chewonki,” …
Every Monday morning Chewonki faculty and staff gather in the whale room for Monday Morning Meeting. Program updates are shared and farm and other news is offered. When Greg Shute is facilitating he is likely to ask at the end of the meeting “any nature notes?” Here is one that I thought worthy of writing …
This afternoon, the Chewonki seventh graders gathered in the Gatehouse (the house on the farm) to explore archival materials, many over a century old. We started in the barn together, looking up, down, and around as we walked silently through that 156-year-old space, into the farm workshop and then the house, observing and experiencing the …
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Connecting Chewonki’s Future with Millennia of Land Use When returning students and campers arrive at Chewonki this year, they may notice a dramatic break in the trees on the east side of the entry road. Last month, we began the first phase of a 3-year project to restore approximately 11 acres of forest back to …
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