• Science for Self-Reliance: Forestry at Home

    Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant St, Brunswick, Maine

    Join MOFGA and CML for a special talk on Forestry at Home. Learn to grow your own forest ecosystem—even in small spaces! Explore how trees interact with soil, water, air, and each other to form resilient systems. Participants will learn about root architecture, leaf morphology, and tree carbon sequestration while designing a mini food forest or habitat garden. Discuss […]

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  • Science for Self-Reliance: Integrating Medicinal Mushrooms Into Your Life

    Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant St, Brunswick, Maine

    Join MOFGA and CML for a special talk on mushrooms. In an age of increasing stress and increasing health care costs, people seek healthy self-care practices in order to achieve and maintain optimum health. complement mainstream medicine for improved health maintenance or during those times when our health is compromised by illness, stress or disease. […]

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  • Science for Self-Reliance: Greenhouse and Garden Watering

    Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant St, Brunswick, Maine

    Join Curtis Memorial Library and MOFGA to learn from Dr. Ankit Singh, Assistant Extension Professor and Maine Sustainable Agriculture and Ornamental Horticulture Educator to discover how sensors, flow control, and smart systems can make greenhouses and gardens more efficient! In this lecture, participants will learn the basics of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and simple electronics used […]

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  • Science for Self-Reliance: Let’s Make Cheese

    Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant St, Brunswick, Maine

    Learn the art of cheese making from Jean Koons, from Kennebec Cheesery in this evening workshop!Join us for a delicious, scientific, hands-on adventure into the science of cheese making! Participants will explore how chemistry transforms milk into curds and whey, discovering the roles of acids, enzymes, and bacteria in this age-old process. Working together, we’ll heat, […]

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  • Science for Self-Reliance: Foraging for Edible Mushrooms

    Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant St, Brunswick, Maine

    Please join Curtis Memorial Library and MOFGA for another program in our Science for Self-Reliance Series. Collecting and eating wild mushrooms is an intimidating prospect for the beginner. There are so many different mushrooms and some of them are devilishly difficult to tell apart. And some of them are poisonous, a few dangerously toxic. But there […]

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  • Free Film Screening: Common Ground

    Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant St, Brunswick, Maine

    Join MOFGA at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick for a free screening of Common Ground. The library will screen the 45-minute educational version of this film and host a panel discussion. The film documents the genesis and the environmental impacts of so-called conventional farming, and it proposes that employing regenerative farming techniques can mitigate the effects […]

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