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A group enjoying Maine Days in 2025. Image courtesy of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Tickets launched this past Monday for Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ annual Maine Days. From Friday, May 29, through Sunday, May 31, Mainers can bring up to eight…

Plant sale

The Garden Club of Wiscasset will hold its annual plant sale on May 9, at the Municipal Building at the corner of routes One and 27 in Wiscasset from 8:30 a.m. until noon.

This year marks…

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Monarch butterfly in Wiscasset Library's Children’s Garden. Emily Adler pho

The Garden Club of Wiscasset is pleased to announce the offering of two $5,000 scholarships to Lincoln County high school seniors or graduates who meet eligibility requirements.

For over 20…

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The next meeting of the Garden Club…

Jay on feeder, photo by Caleigh Waldman. Order your bird seed and support your birds this spring and summer. Courtesy photo

It’s time to prepare for your spring bird-feeding to get birds through the nesting season when they need lots of energy.

Veggies to Table vegetables. Kelsey Kobik photo

Veggies to Table in Newcastle is…

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District
Courtesy of Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s 2026 Spring Plant Sale Catalog is now available in print and online! Plants are available for pre-order, either online or by mail through…

Holiday baskets. Emily Adler photo

The Garden Club of Wicasset held a fun, festive and productive meeting Dec. 4, creating holiday baskets and mugs. Lincoln County “Meals on Wheels” received 100 mugs, and 24 baskets were delivered…

Carl Gluek picks up some garlic for the Boothbay Region Food Pantry. Courtesy photo

With this season’s harvest, Veggies to Table, a non-profit farm in Newcastle, Maine,  now celebrates seven seasons of impact—growing and donating over 95,000…

sold sign outside of a house.

Maine’s shortage of affordable housing has led to calls to aggressively build new homes and apartments: up to 84,000 more by 2030, according to a 2023

Scarecrow

The next educational program of Garden Club of Wiscasset will be on Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. Ruth Indrick, Kennebec Estuary Land Trust project director, will…

Let Mid-Coast Audubon help you fill your bird feeders! Courtesy photo

Mid-Coast Audubon will be selling bird seed and suet through Nov. 1 to raise funds to support bird conservation and educational…

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District
Butterfly and hummingbird garden seed mix. Courtesy photo

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District is excited to announce our autumn fundrais…

Placing mums

Garden Club of Wiscasset’s Canny Cahn recently installed mums and pumpkins at the town’s well-known welcome sign. 

Among its other projects, the club donates these fall…

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Plant

The Garden Club of Wiscasset’s next meeting isOct. 2 at First Congregational Church (fellowship hall) 28 High St., Wiscasset. Our educational program is…

The 1762 Bowman House. Courtesy of Historic New England

Historic New England’s 1762 Bowman House in Dresden is set in a landscape that has seen many changes over the past 263 years. The only constant is the Kennebec River.…

Please scan the poster QR code or visit https://mainebeekeepers.org/  to let us know you are coming to Bee Fest.

The Maine State Beekeepers Association (MSBA) is pleased to announce we will be holding the second annual Bee Fest at Viles Arboretum, 153 Hospital St., Augusta, on…

A small patch of purple loosestrife on Knickerbocker Lake in Boothbay. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register

When Boothbay resident Fran Gleason saw a questionable purple flower on her waterfront property, she thought something was off.…

mushroom author and educator Greg Marley

Veggies to Table is pleased to announce an upcoming Mushroom Walk and Foraging Workshop with renowned mushroom author and educator Greg Marley on …

A rendition of the Edward and Gwendolyn Asplundh Horticulture and Plant Science Center. Courtesy of Christner Architects

This month, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens breaks ground on the Edward and Gwendolyn Asplundh Horticulture and Plant Science Center. The Center, designed by…

Wabanaki singer/drummer Lauren Stevens. Courtesy of SBC

Salt Bay Chamberfest is partnering with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay for the first time to present three “musical installations” on the grounds of the…

Historic New England
Historic New England's Bowman House in Dresden open for a tour this Friday. Courtesy of Peggy Konitzky

Historic New England’s 1762 Bowman House in Dresden is filled with fascinating stories, exquisite 18th century furnishings and some 20th century objects that will make you smile. Whether you are…

Veggies to Table, a Midcoast Maine nonprofit farm dedicated to ending hunger, building community, and creating joyful volunteer…

Veggies to Table
Veggies To Table photo

Hunger is on the rise, and 1 in 5 children go hungry every day in Maine. With new government funding cuts to food assistance the solution to hunger relief now…

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Photo courtesy of Rebecca McMackin

Returning for its fifteenth year, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ Ina and Lewis Heafitz Endowed Lecture Series introduces Rebecca McMackin and her “Adventures in Ecological Horticulture.” The…

Get Ready to Shred
Maine State Credit Union logo

Maine State Credit Union is bringing its Shred-It event to the Rockland community, Friday, July 25, 2025, at its branch located at 168 Camden Street. From 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Shredding On-Site will…

The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens was transformed into a sprawling set for the filming of Antiques Roadshow June 18. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register

The rain came in fits and starts, but that didn't seem to bother the lines of people whose family heirlooms were toted in buggies, wrapped in plastic and tucked under multicolored umbrellas.…

Beach Rose Cottage at Ocean Point, Boothbay. Courtesy of BRGC

The annual Home and Garden tour is a highlight of the summer season…

Frances Perkins Center, Newcastle, viewed from the walking trail. Courtesy of CSC member

On Monday, June 9, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Coastal Senior College walk coordinators Jayne Gordon and Nancy Adams will lead a…

Midcoast Conservancy logo

Spring is in the air, and that means garden time! Organic perennials from Rebel Hill Farm can help create inviting habitat for…

Emily Adler photo

The Garden Club of Wiscasset Annual Plant Sale is May 10 at the Municipal Building at the corner of Routes One and 27 in Wiscasset from 8:30…

Gardeners

Garden Club of Wiscasset will hold its next meeting on May 1 in Fellowship Hall of First Congregational Church, 28 High St., Wiscasset…

Wren Fairfield and Macen Gay plant seedlings with the guidance of Garden Club member Liz Gross. Becky Hallowell photo

Garden Club of Wiscasset recently worked with fourth grade students at Wiscasset Elementary School to plant the first seeds for the school’s new square foot garden.

The students, guided by…

Sale flyer

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s 2025 Spring Plant Sale Catalog is now available in print and online! Plants are available for pre-order, either…

Caleigh Waldman photo

It’s time to stock up for your spring and summer bird-feeding to get birds through the nesting season when they need lots…

Bryce Hatch holds a young bull frog for members to see. Emily Adler photo

“Vernal Pools” will be the topic of the Garden Club of Wiscasset’s next program on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 1 p.m. in Fellowship Hall of the Congregational Church, 28 High St. in Wiscasset.

The…

Irene Brady Barber. Emily Adler photo

Garden Club of Wiscasset’s next meeting will be Nov. 7. We are excited to have as our presenter Dr. Irene Brady Barber, who previously was director of land conservation at  Coastal Maine…

Alain Ollier with macaron. Photo Erica Berman

Veggies to Table, a grow-to-donate farm in Newcastle, is looking for volunteers! Autumn is here, and there is still so much to do on the farm - harvesting as much bounty to share with…

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District is excited to announce our autumn fundraiser - - native wildflower seeds. October is the perfect month to sow wildflower seeds for spring growth…

Lainey Bell, the 2024 American Honey Princess, will visit Viles Arboretum, 153 Hospital St., Augusta, on Sunday, Sept. 8.  She will participate in the first Maine Bee Fest with the Maine…

The Garden Club of Wiscasset will begin its monthly meetings for 2024-2025 on Sept. 5.
 
The program at 1 p.m. will be presented by Peter Arnold on “Growing Micro-…

The Maine State Beekeepers Association (MSBA) has announced that Dr. Thomas D. Seeley will be its keynote speaker at the upcoming MSBA Bee Fest taking place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept…

Lincoln Arts Festival
Andie Elwell

The Lincoln Arts Festival (LAF) Art Show has been held since 1995, and almost always at a shipyard. For many years now, Hodgdon Yacht Services, at 100 Ebenecook Road, Southport has generously…

Indigo Arts Alliance and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens are proud to unveil two sculptures by Indigo Arts Alliance artists-in-residence Shane Perley-Dutcher and Anna Tsouhlarakis. The newly…

The WindowDressers 2024 Program is accepting requests for inserts.

The Westport Island Community Association Plant Sale is Saturday, June 8 from  9 a.m. to 1 p.m.at the Old Town Hall, 1217 Main Road, Westport Island.

The Boothbay Region Garden Club invites you to join us on the Boothbay Common for Boothbay in Bloom; a fabulous summer fair celebrating what makes the Boothbay peninsula special.

The fair…

Outside of Gardens Aglow, there is no busier weekend at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens than their free weekend, Maine Days. Now a family tradition for many of the state’s residents, the Gardens…