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Two months ago, we set up a time-lapse camera in the high tunnel on Chewonki’s farm to catch the amazing growth of our tomatoes! It’s remarkable to see plant life, so often thought of as “unmoving,” visibly flex, turn and grow in rhythm with the passage of days.  

Morning pea-picking is good work. The farmers move down rows of emerald tendrils “dripping with peas,” as Assistant Farm Manager Hilary Crowell puts it, pinching off round, ripe pods and dropping them into buckets. With this bumper crop, harvesting goes quickly. And there are plenty of sweet snap peas for snacking. “Take a few for… 

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Thanks to generous Chewonki friends, our beloved American Belgian chestnut mare, Sal, now has a run-in at one of her favorite pasture hangouts. The new structure gives Sal, who will turn 22 on July 19, the option of shelter from wind, rain, snow, and sun. Howard and Nancy Alter, whose daughter, Dina, is an alumna… 

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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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