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Common Ground Country Fair 2018

Celebrate Rural Living with the Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association

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9:00am EDT

Goat Milking Demonstration Sheep & Goat Barn The Culture of Respectful Maternity Care Health & Healing Speakers Tent Bareback Work with a Draft Horse Round Pen Bringing us back from the nuclear brink Social & Political Action Speakers Tent Easy Tyre Repair Bicycle Valet FAMACHA Workshop Livestock Speakers Tent Oxen Demonstrations Large Livestock Demo Area Caroline Cotter Roving Blacksmithing Demonstrations Blacksmith Shop Seed Swap Exhibition Hall Cattle Clipping Demo Barn 3 Draft Horse Show Show Ring Farm Activities with Kids: Grinding Wheat into flour, Rolling out flat breads, Shaking cream to make butter, Corn husk dolls Farm & Homestead Kids Tent Fleece Sale Fleece Tent Stoneworking Demonstrations Stone Workers Skills & Activities in the Woods for Youth The Woods Come Experience Reiki Whole Life Tent Compost and Recycling Tent Tours Drop-in Compost & Recycling

9:15am EDT

Answers to Your Organic Certification Questions MOFGA Tent

9:30am EDT

Everything is a Compost Pile Compost & Recycling Cooking for Dogs Country Kitchen Demos Goat Milking Demo Barn 3 Free-form Music & Dance with Emilia Sunflower Stage Awareness & the Art of Seeing; Fox walk to Notice Railcar Speakers Tent Paper Bull Puppet Company Touch Table Children's Area Solar, Wind, & Electricity Hands on Demos Children's Area The Bumbling Woohas: Juggling and Music Children's Area

10:00am EDT

Payment for Ecosystem Services: Carbon Capture as an Environmental and Financial Strategy for Your Forest Low Impact Forestry Tent Healthy Ergonomic Lifestyle Health & Healing Speakers Tent Mounted Games that Teach Round Pen Water Justice: Drink Locally, Think Globally Social & Political Action Speakers Tent People-powered Bike Parade: Celebrate Wheeled Mobility Bells encouraged Bicycle Valet Darning and Mending Workshop Compost & Recycling Humanure: Its a Resource! Garden Shed in North Orchard Mowing with and Sharpening the European Scythe Meet at booth in F & H Cider Pressing Farm & Homestead Kids Tent Treatment-Free Beekeeping Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Answers to Your Organic Vegetable Questions MOFGA Tent Beginning Seed Saving for the Home Gardener Windsor Tent Introduction to Edible Landscaping Litchfield Tent Managing Healthy Bee Hives Hayloft Wool Isn't Just Wool Fleece Tent Logging Demonstration Woodlot The Emerald Ash Borer is Here Maine Indian Basketmakers Harry S Truman Manure Pitch - Basket Fill Toss Distance Harry S. Truman Manure Pitch Trusting Our Connections with the Plants Herb Tent Got Milk?-Get Your Goats! Sheep & Goat Barn In Defense of Horns and the Intact Animal Livestock Speakers Tent Raising Heritage Pigs for Meat Pig Pen Safety around Livestock Exhibits at the Fair Barn 3 Sheep Dog Demo Sheep Dogs The Brick Oven as the Heart of the Home Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Awareness Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Cross Stitch a Sampler Class Folk Arts Tent 2 Felt Starry Night Class Folk Arts Tent 2 Instinctive Archery Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Make a Leather Pouch Folk Arts Tent 1 Make a Milkweed Bracelet Folk Arts Tent 1 Make Natural Cordage Folk Arts Tent 1 Plant Walk Folk Arts Tent 1 Yoga for Farmers Whole Life Tent Various Bicycle Demos Bicycle Valet Horse-drawn Rides Field Plots Clipping Cattle for Show -Lowline Angus Barn 3 Highland Cattle Farming Barn 3 Field Work and Seeding a Cover Crop Field Plots Braid a Mug Rug Class Folk Arts Tent 2

10:15am EDT

Katherine Rhoda Spotlight Stage

10:20am EDT

Dress for the Garden Parade Children's Area

10:30am EDT

Garden Parade (arrive 10 min. early to dress) Children's Area Rain Gardens for Clean Water Railcar Speakers Tent

10:40am EDT

Kids Read! Sunflower Stage

11:00am EDT

Compost Parade! Compost & Recycling Song Dog Puppeteers present "Little Song Finds her Voice" Sunflower Stage When Food Saves Your Life Health & Healing Speakers Tent Tree ID and the Maine Woods Meet at Low Impact Forestry Tent Why Willie's Not Here Round Pen Converting Maine Businesses to Worker Ownership Social & Political Action Speakers Tent Q&A: Apprenticeship, Journeyperson & Farm in Residence Programs MOFGA Tent How to Care for Sugar Woods in a Changing Climate Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Potato Leek Soup Farm & Homestead Kids Tent Advanced Seed Saving Windsor Tent Fruit Exploring: Wild & Cultivated Trees Hayloft Maine Soils- Use and Management Soil Pit Soil Block Demonstration Litchfield Tent Harvesting Wool of Angora Rabbits Fleece Speakers Tent Maine Medicinals: Our Journey Herb Tent Farmers' Markets & Strong Communities The Common Hands-on Sheep Care Sheep & Goat Barn Raising Mulefoot Pigs Pig Pen Sheep Shearing Demo Sheep & Goat Barn The Reality of Raising Your Own Meat Barn 3 Tree Leaf Preferences for Cows, Sheep, Goats and Hogs Livestock Speakers Tent Fiddlers' Showcase Maine Folk Traditions Stage Building & Designing Small Houses Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Beginning Knot Tying Folk Arts Tent 1 Brown Ash Pounding Maine Indian Basketmakers Campfire Cooking: Donuts Folk Arts Tent 1 Dog Team Demo Folk Arts Tent 1 Flower ID Lab Folk Arts Tent 1 Machete Use & Safety Folk Arts Tent 1 Make a Wooden Spatula Class Folk Arts Tent 1 EFT-Emotional Freedom Technique Whole Life Tent Measuring the Carbon in Your Woods: Crunching Numbers and Estimating CO2 Low Impact Forestry Tent

11:30am EDT

Martin Swinger Spotlight Stage Wish Cycling and How it Harms Railcar Speakers Tent No Knead Bread Making Country Kitchen Demos Goat Hoof Trimming Demonstration Sheep & Goat Barn

12:00pm EDT

4-H Goat Showing & PB Sandwich Game Sheep & Goat Barn Emotional Freedom Technique Health & Healing Speakers Tent Connecting with Horses and Where It Can Lead Round Pen Bike Rodeo, Best Practices Bicycle Valet Deciphering Food Labels MOFGA Tent Deciphering Food Labels MOFGA Tent UPCYCLED Fashion followed by a Fashion Show! Compost & Recycling Mowing with and Sharpening the European Scythe Meet at booth in F & H Abandoned & Discontinued Roads - Whose Problem? Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Beginning Wine Making Windsor Tent Cider Economics on the Farm: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Hayloft Scaling Up for Growth in the Portland Foodshed Litchfield Tent Herbs for Improving Memory and Mental Clarity Herb Tent Livestock and Equine Behavior 101 Livestock Speakers Tent Sheep Dog Demo Sheep Dogs Shape Note Singers Performance Maine Folk Traditions Stage Batteries, Storage: Where are we going? Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Felt Cylinder Beads Class Folk Arts Tent 2 Instinctive Archery Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Plant Walk Folk Arts Tent 1 Aura-Soma Journey Whole Life Tent Hilton Park Amphitheater Judging and Tasting Lacto-fermented Foods Exhibition Hall Community Sing Roving

12:15pm EDT

Make & Take Sock Poi with Zoe Cat Sunflower Stage

12:30pm EDT

Jud Caswell Spotlight Stage Out Watering Horses Russell's Poetry Grove School Gardens in the City; Making Them Work Railcar Speakers Tent Log Scooting Contest and Oxen Teamsters Award Large Livestock Demo Area

1:00pm EDT

Carbon-Friendly Management Strategies: Maximizing Carbon Capture and Storage in Your Forest Low Impact Forestry Tent Directional Felling Demo with a Chainsaw Woodlot ACEs and How to Heal Them Health & Healing Speakers Tent Moving through Fear: Trailering a Scared Horse Round Pen Financing Cooperative Enterprises Social & Political Action Speakers Tent Radical Simplicity Compost & Recycling Digestive Problems Chef Presentation, Tummy Peace Country Kitchen Demos Mowing with and Sharpening the European Scythe Meet at booth in F & H Intro to Vermicomposting Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Alcohol Production in Maine's Small Farm Economy Hayloft Answers to Your Organic Livestock Questions MOFGA Tent Backyard Grain Growing Windsor Tent Garlic Growing:The Nitty Gritty Details North Orchard No Till Farming & Gardening Litchfield Tent White Pine Medicine Herb Tent Colony Raising Rabbits Humanely Livestock Speakers Tent Getting to Know Dairy Cattle Up Close Barn 5 Halter Training a Calf Barn 5 Sheep Shearing Demo Sheep & Goat Barn Storytelling Maine Folk Traditions Stage Clean Energy Without Solar Panels Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Advanced Knot Tying Folk Arts Tent 1 Braid a Mug Rug Class Folk Arts Tent 2 Dog Team Demo Folk Arts Tent 1 Flint & Steel Fire Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Home Funerals Class Folk Arts Tent 2 Make a Clay Bead Folk Arts Tent 1 Natural Navigation Walk Folk Arts Tent 1 Penobscot Dolls for Children Maine Indian Basketmakers Process Acorns into Flour Folk Arts Tent 1 Mindful, Peaceful, Healthy Whole Life Tent Maine Squeeze Accordions Roving Sawmill Demonstration Sawmill Blacksmithing Demonstrations Blacksmith Shop Martin Swinger Roving

1:15pm EDT

Katherine Rhoda: Folk Music & Vintage Instruments Sunflower Stage

1:30pm EDT

Caroline Cotter Spotlight Stage Hunting for Sustainability Railcar Speakers Tent GoldenOak Amphitheater

1:45pm EDT

Logging Demonstration: Low-Impact Extraction Systems That Minimize Soil and Tree Damage Woodlot

2:00pm EDT

Craeft in Chairmaking Low Impact Forestry Tent Mindfullness and Spirit Helpers Health & Healing Speakers Tent Modifying Breastcollar Harness for Pairs Round Pen Exploring Classism Social & Political Action Speakers Tent People-powered Bike Parade: Celebrate Wheeled Mobility, Bells encouraged Bicycle Valet Meet MOFGA's New Executive Director Sarah Alexander MOFGA Tent Poetry Reading Russell's Poetry Grove Zero Waste Alternatives for People with Periods Compost & Recycling Tour the Tables with FEDCO's Vegetable Expert Exhibition Hall Cider Pressing Farm & Homestead Kids Tent Honoring What We Grow and Eat Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Garden & Orchard Drip Irrigation 101 Hayloft Growing Grapes in Maine Windsor Tent Living Soils: Cover Cropping for Farms and Gardens Litchfield Tent Using Green Manures in the Garden or on the Farm South Orchard Harry S Truman Manure Pitch - Basket Fill Toss Accurancy Harry S. Truman Manure Pitch Anatomy, Energetics and Allies of the Heart Herb Tent CANCELLED - Acupuncture for Dairy Herd Health Livestock Speakers Tent Dairy Clipping Demonstration Sheep & Goat Barn Sheep Dog Demo Sheep Dogs The Basics of Breeding Your Own Pigs Pig Pen Up Close with Goats Barn 3 Contra Dance, Oral Histories Maine Folk Traditions Stage Becoming a Smart Solar Buyer Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Embroider Animal Tapestry Class Folk Arts Tent 2 Felt a Moustache Class Folk Arts Tent 2 Forest Farm Permaculture Folk Arts Tent 1 Instinctive Archery Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Plant Walk Folk Arts Tent 1 Singing Circle Folk Arts Tent 1 Goddess Journey Whole Life Tent Cheese Making Country Kitchen Demos

2:20pm EDT

Dress for the Garden Parade Children's Area

2:30pm EDT

Garden Parade (arrive 10 min. early to dress) Children's Area School Gardens; A Bridge to the Wider World Railcar Speakers Tent Ale House String Band Spotlight Stage

2:40pm EDT

Kids Read! Sunflower Stage

3:00pm EDT

Compost Parade! Compost & Recycling Chemical Conundrum Health & Healing Speakers Tent Transgender Allyship 101 Social & Political Action Speakers Tent Martin Swinger: Fun Family Sing-along Sunflower Stage Q&A: Programs, Resources, and Networking for New Farmers MOFGA Tent Applesauce Farm & Homestead Kids Tent Adventurous Edible Landscaping South Orchard Favorite Apples for the Home Orchard Hayloft Old World/New World Crops Windsor Tent Optimizing Indoor Cultivation Microclimates Litchfield Tent Herbal Questions and Answers Herb Tent Heritage Turkeys Good Management and Breeding Livestock Speakers Tent My 4H Beef Experience and Current Successes Barn 5 Pigs in the Woods Pig Pen Sheep Shearing Demo Sheep & Goat Barn Successfully Delivering and Raising Newborn Lambs Sheep & Goat Barn Contra Dance-Dudley Laufman calling Maine Folk Traditions Stage Save Energy, Save Money, Save the Environment Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Become a Maine Guide Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Fire by Friction Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Machete Use & Safety Folk Arts Tent 1 Make a Wooden Spatula Class Folk Arts Tent 1 White Pine Medicine Class Folk Arts Tent 1 How Horses Can Help You Find Your Way Round Pen Lynn Deeves with Robby Coffin Amphitheater

3:30pm EDT

Fermented Plant Juice as a Veganic Fertilizer Compost & Recycling Salvation in the Soil Railcar Speakers Tent T-Acadie Spotlight Stage

4:00pm EDT

Goat Milking Demonstration Sheep & Goat Barn Sahaja Yoga Health & Healing Speakers Tent Labor Song Singalong Social & Political Action Speakers Tent What Forests and Prairies Can Teach Us Windsor Tent Where Landscapes Begin: Organizing Spirit Space Litchfield Tent Before You Buy a Horse Livestock Speakers Tent Creating & Joining Community Solar Farms Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Felt an Acorn Class Folk Arts Tent 2 Plant Walk Folk Arts Tent 1

4:30pm EDT

Goat Hoof Trimming Demonstration Sheep & Goat Barn