Programs

Greater Lovell Land Trust programs are open  and offered free to the public.  We do not request reservations or donations unless specified, but please consider becoming a supporting member.

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Join Us For These Spring Events!!

 

Growing Shitake Mushrooms

Saturday, April 11, 2009   Time:  10 am to 12 noon

Meet at the Old Stage Farm off route 5A in Lovell

A demonstration will be conducted throughout the morning on how to grow your own shitake mushrooms.  Also known as oak-tree mushrooms, shitakes grow very well locally and are a great addition to the family forest garden and dining offerings.  Tom Henderson, a grower for 12 years will demonstrate how to inoculate oak logs and care for the crop.  The demonstration is an open house format for all ages.  Participants can arrive at anytime throughout the morning.  Dress appropriately as it is an outdoor activity. 

 

This demonstration is being scheduled to coordinate with the Transplant Workshop offered at Old Stage Farm by Susan Sidwell.  The GLLT is currently working with local food producers to advance the preservation of farms, famers and farmland.  We will be adding an Agricultural page to the website soon to announce local farm programs and agricultural news to the public.

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Transplant Workshop—Offered By Old Stage Farm

Saturday, April 11, 2009   Begins promptly at 9:00 a.m.

Meet at the Old Stage Farm off route 5A in Lovell

 

The Old Stage Farm in Lovell, Maine is offering a Transplant Workshop on April 11, 2009 providing gardeners with custom seedling choices of common varieties, as well as the unique and hard to find.  Are you a home gardener looking for unusual plant varieties such as heirloom tomatoes, bleeding hearts, lavenders or basils?  Do you grow one or two of each plant but can only find multipacks with no homes for the extra seedlings?  The Transplant Workshop being offered by Susan Sidwell may be the answer to tailoring your spring seedling purchases to your growing needs.  Old Stage Farm specializes in robust and unusual vegetable and flower varieties, herbs and perennials.  Many are hard to find varieties.   Come select and transplant the varieties and number of seedlings you wish to grow this season and let Old Stage Farm raise them in their greenhouse until the weather warms and the soil is ready.

 

Susan Sidwell will help you individualize your choices, separate, transplant and label your seedlings.  The program begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. with useful instruction from Sidwell on the individual plant requirements, growth needs and transplanting process. You may mix your flats in order to personalize your choices, taking into account your growing conditions and the advice offered.  Each flat will include 6 seedlings or 10-12 seedlings, in the case of foxglove, onions or other varieties.  Flats cost $3.00 each and you can create multiple flats to meet your needs.  Your individual plants will be grown out in the greenhouse at Old Stage Farm and available for you to pickup in early May for hardening off and planting.            

 

Space is limited to the first 20 persons and preregistration is required by April 8th.   Anyone interested is encouraged to call Susan Sidwell at 925-1006 for registration and confirmation.  

 

 

Join Us for These Summer 2009 Events

 

What you Always Wanted to Know About Eagles

Special Family ProgrammingWhere: The Charlotte Hobbs Library When:  July 31, 10-11 AM or August 19, 10-11 AM    

What you have always wanted to know about Eagles, but were afraid to ask!  Enjoy a lighthearted look at the Eagle.  Please join us for a fulfilled and informative program designed for parents and their children ages 6-10.  We hope that you and your children come away with a greater appreciation for this remarkable creature.  Through the use of pictures, videos, props, and a spirited discussion we hope to spark an interest that will last a lifetime. 

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The Greater Lovell Land Trust Presents:

Natural History at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library, 2009

Wednesday Evenings in July and August 7:30 PM

 

 

July 8.  Photography Gone Wild.  Jym St. Pierre.  Photographer

Jym is a widely published photographer and winner of a number of photography competitions. He is currently the Maine Director of RESTORE:  The North Woods.  Maine has been a mecca for outdoor photography.  Come and enjoy this original Powerpoint program that touches on the history of landscape photography in Maine and good places to take nature photos.  The majority of the illustrated talk features work by contemporary photographers who are doing a stunning array of landscape and wildlife photography in Maine.

 

July 15.  Beaver Pond Wildlife.  David Brown.  Professional Naturalist and Tracker.

David is no stranger to our evening audiences who have always enjoyed his presentations over the years.  This year the focus will be on beaver ponds. The slide show and video presentation investigate the amazing abundance of mammals, birds, and flowers that live in and around beaver ponds.

 

July 22.  Look There’s a Moose!  Kevin  Harding Amateur Naturalist

When guests from “away” arrive they always want to see a moose.  They are the largest mammal around and certainly worth the effort to find.  I thought it was time to learn more about these animals that look like they were created by a committee on steroids.  Indeed they are much more interesting than one would guess.  Come and spend an evening learning about moose.

 

July 29.  Who Owns Maine’s Water?  Jim Wilfong. Director of H2O for Maine.

Benjamin Franklin said, “When the well goes dry we know the value water”.  Jim Wilfong a former legislator for Fryeburg and small business advocate will help us understand this controversial question.  Century Magazine called water the oil of the twenty-first century.  Perhaps we all need to give this resource that we take for granted more thought.

 

August 5.  Loons, Loons, Loons.  Bonny Boatman.   Docent for the GLLT

Last summer Bonny gave an exciting program several mornings designed primarily for children.  The response was so positive Bonny is coming back to bring her loon expertise for our evening programs.  The computer based program will investigate many elements of loon behavior and answer many commonly asked questions.  Haven’t you always wanted to know what all those loon calls mean?