2025 Volunteer Days: 6/11 at North St
Join us for a volunteer “happy hour” at North St Community Garden on June 11th from 5 to 7 pm!
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Celebrate Community Farms
Join us on May 31st at Allagash Brewing Co. Cellars to celebrate our Community Farms! This event is free and family friendly. We’ll have live music, a raffle, local snacks, and Boyd St. Orchard peach beer.
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Wake up the Garden Party 05/01
Cultivating Community’s Spring program, Youth Leadership Intensive, invites you to help “wake up” the Boyd St. Urban Farm for Maine’s growing season! At this party you’ll: Give our youth interns the chance to lead an event, work on garden projects, clean up green spaces, and connect as a community over the promise of new growth!
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Raised Bed Building at Common Share Garden: 5/10
We are hosting a raised bed building workshop at Common Share Community Garden. Common Share is a one acre communally-farmed garden nestled within Portland’s Easter Prom. Help us transform this in-ground garden into a beautiful raised bed garden before the growing season begins!
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3/15 Winter Pruning Workshop
9 – 11 am Saturday, March 15th, 2025Boyd St Urban Orchard, 58 Boyd St, PortlandAll are welcome! Tired of winter and looking for a fun winter activity? Join us! Cultivating Community and ReTreeUs are hosting an interactive winter pruning workshop…
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Announcing USDA Funding to Build Raised Beds
This project is an exciting next phase of our partnership with the City’s Parks, Recreation & Facilities Department to ensure that Portland’s 11 community gardens are safe and accessible. We are happy to announce that we have secured funding through the Maine Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for the next 3 garden rebuilds!
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Volunteers Needed 12/7: Raised Bed Building at Boyd St Garden
Volunteers needed! We are hosting a raised bed building workshop at Boyd Street Community Garden. Help us transform this in-ground garden into a beautiful raised bed garden before winter comes!
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high school Culinary Crew
Our high school Culinary Crew students have been up to some fun stuff in the kitchen the past few weeks! Thanks to @waysidefoodprograms for allowing us to use your kitchen to advance our cooking skills and provide meals to families…
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We got solar panels installed at our farm!
Hurricane Valley Farm, a 62-acre working farm owned and leased to us by @falmouthlandtrust got an upgrade in the form of a solar array! Funding for this project came from the State of Maine’s Community Resilience Partnership, which “helps communities…
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fill out your fall checkout forms!
Winter is coming and the end of the garden season is here This is a reminder to all of our community gardeners that it is time to fill out your fall checkout forms. The forms are due by next Wednesday,…
