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Grow Your Own Edible Mushrooms!
with Chris Knapp
Mushrooms are fascinating and beautiful organisms that also offer opportunities for substantial food production in Maine. This workshop, led by North Spore educator Louis Giller, will share background and hands-on experience with some of the most reliable outdoor cultivation methods. Louis will start with a presentation explaining how to plan and execute log and bed cultivation with species including Shiitake, Wine Cap, Oysters, Chestnut, and Hen of the Woods. From there, we'll get outside and start inoculating, putting what we've learned into practice! Participants will be able to take home a freshly inoculated Shiitake log.
Date: Sunday, April 28, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Pay Instructor when you get to class. Cost: $30-80 sliding scale
For online registration:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjqko9KLvGrmPXN8MOisrzJYmC2-dTrV019L8bPnGV0ab5lg/viewform
MAINE GUIDE CERTIFICATION STUDY COURSE
with Carroll Ware
This course will prepare you to take the state test to become a registered Maine Guide in Hunting and Fishing or Recreation. Location: ALC Dates: 3 classess May 2 - May 4 Day: Thursday, 7:45am - 4:40pm - Friday, 8am - 4pm - Saturday, 8am - 12pm Fee: $425 - $400 for Veterans, $250 deposit when registering for the class.
MEDICARE MADE CLEAR - 3
with Dianna White
Whether you're starting Medicare soon or looking to understand what you have. My goal is to help you understand your options and to feel confident choosing coverage based on your needs. I will provide you with a free educational guide and resources.
DATES: March 6, April 3, May 8 and June 5
Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm
Wild Greens for the Common Table
available
with Chris Knapp
Come feast on the wild abundance of spring! We will spend the day on identification, wise harvest, and cooking of multiple wild plants that grace the springtime table. Ever eat a tree-leaf salad, nettle stir-fry or knotweed pie? Come learn how and see how partnering with the wild can bring health, happiness, and hope. We will provide a mostly-foraged lunch.
Date: Saturday, May 13, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Pay Instructor when you get to class.
Cost: $30-80 sliding scale
For online registration:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe49Q2FZZsd6QhgUnenLCXrpltwCt1UuxGAXWxuoOTcivLllw/viewform
MEDICARE MADE CLEAR - 4
available
with Dianna White
Whether you're starting Medicare soon or looking to understand what you have. My goal is to help you understand your options and to feel confident choosing coverage based on your needs. I will provide you with a free educational guide and resources.
DATES: March 6, April 3, May 8 and June 5
Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
with Grace Stover
The 130 hour Certified Nursing Assistant Course is designed to prepare the student to be a Nursing Assistant. Call the Adult Ed Office at 778-3460 for an application, registration requirements and placement on a waiting list. Details regarding dates, location and fees will be provided to participants as the class list is completed. Assessments are required (CASAS).
June 18 to August 16, the whole course is 9 weeks.Tuesdays and Wednesdays 0930-1600
Clinical agreement in place for Pinnacle in Canton
Clinical Dates are: August 7,8,13,14,15
Miso Making Workshop
available
Join go-en fermented foods for a sweet (quick ferment) miso-making workshop and discussion about miso and its uses as well as the history and cultural significance of this traditional fermented food of Japan. Having been produced for more than a millennium, miso utilizes techniques and relationships that have been passed down from generation to generation with little alteration. Learn why that is and get to know the microbial partners within and around us that have agreed to carry on these relationships. In this hands-on workshop, the goal is to send participants home with the confidence to tackle miso on their own, along with a jar of sweet miso to ferment.
Date: Saturday, June 22, 2024, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Cost: $40-60 sliding scale
For online registration:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKH7wJ49h5ZDuA8NVOW2SsFAW-eeNAk_1ROcliTmY4YfVo7w/viewform
Maine Open Farm Day
available
with Chris Knapp
Visit the working homestead and education center of Maine Local Living School on Open Farm Day! We will lead tours of the campus including the ice house, root cellar, greenhouse and gardens, solar food dehydrator, animal barn, and the classroom/workshop. Visitors will learn about and interact with earth-friendly systems including rainwater collection and solar water heating, rocket stoves and outdoor kitchens, composting toilets, and alternative building construction. Visitors will also have the opportunity to put their hands to work on a homestead project and try cookies made with acorn flour. Free and open to the public.
Date: Sunday, July 28, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm