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With the trees fully cleared from the eastside pasture restoration project site, the last few weeks have been a busy (and noisy) period of subsoiling and stump removal.  Farm Manager Megan Philips and Cullen McGough check in to see how the subsoiling process works:  More of the subsoiler in action: Learn more about the Eastside… 

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Mainers who love maple syrup look forward to March all year long. It’s an end-of-winter celebration infused with the smell of sap boiling in the open air. March + Maine = Maple Madness Every March, Chewonki students and teachers tap maple trees on the Neck to gather the sap that cold nights and warm days… 

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Have you ever had a Meyer lemon? They are a favorite thing, A Meyer Lemon is a perfect cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange. They are smaller than a lemon and have the benefit of a thinner skin. They were brought to the U.S. from China in 1908 by Frank Meyer, an agricultural… 

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March! A month of dramatic changes at Chewonki! Three back-to-back nor’easters (including today’s wild storm) have dumped fresh snow on the Neck with the promise of more to come: March is also the season for sheep-shearing:   Not only does the annual shearing provide wool for the fiber arts center, it helps to prepare the pregnant… 

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Sometimes in my job it is difficult to remember that I am at work. Yesterday, for example, after I got all of the various components of lunch service up to the counter, I felt exactly as though I had been getting ready for a dinner party. When I am getting ready for guests, I like… 

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Wiscasset, Maine. On Saturday, March 3rd, Chewonki and the Morris Farm will play co-hosts to the 4th annual Food Security Forum, a daylong gathering of policy makers, hunger relief agencies, restaurant owners, farmers, neighbors and students engaged in improving Maine’s food systems, and securing healthy nutritious food for everyone. This year’s theme “Food is Medicine:… 

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Chewonki Foundation has announced the start of a new 5-part series of “Animal Adventures,” providing hands-on learning for kids and adults of all ages. The monthly program features live animals, fossils, skeletons and a wide collection of touchable natural history exhibits. “I’m really excited to be offering some of our wildlife presentations here at Chewonki,”… 

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This afternoon, the Chewonki seventh graders gathered in the Gatehouse (the house on the farm) to explore archival materials, many over a century old. We started in the barn together, looking up, down, and around as we walked silently through that 156-year-old space, into the farm workshop and then the house, observing and experiencing the… 

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Connecting Chewonki’s Future with Millennia of Land Use When returning students and campers arrive at Chewonki this year, they may notice a dramatic break in the trees on the east side of the entry road. Last month, we began the first phase of a 3-year project to restore approximately 11 acres of forest back to… 

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As the snow falls on Chewonki Neck, it’s hard to imagine that soon – mere months from now – seedlings will be ready for transplanting into gardens, baby animals not yet born will be heading out to pasture, and Chewonki alumni will be heading back to campus to work alongside our year-round farm crew as… 

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