1ST & 3RD SATURDAYS 10AM – 1PM Monthly
Boynton’s Greenhouse at 144 Madison Ave. Skowhegan
From November – April we will be located at Boynton’s Greenhouse
PRESENTED BY MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE
Sunday November 17, 2019
2pm – 4pm
Tiller and Rye, 20 S Main St, Brewer, ME
With local bakers Ellie Markovitch, creator of #StoryCooking
and Cat Morrow from Legacy Acres in Kenduskeag Maine
Saturday & Sunday November 23 & 24
10am – 4pm
Cross Insurance Center – 515 Main St. Bangor, ME 04401
Join’s Maine Grains at the Harvest Fest! Sample the best of the best from our Maine vintners, brewers and distillers. Begin your holiday shopping with festival fiber artisans and their masterpieces and enthusiastic Maine chefs and home cooks as they showcase and share their story, demonstrate, sample and sell what makes Maine, Maine.
PRESENTED BY MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN
#ShopSmall on November 30, 2019
Visit participating locations in Skowhegan to pick up your passport to savings (or get a digital passport here, available the week before the event). Make a purchase at a local business included in the passport listing and get your name entered into a drawing for a gift card to a locally owned business of your choice. The more businesses you shop at, the more chances you have to win!
PRESENTED BY MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN
DECEMBER 6th – 7th
The Holiday Stroll has been a tradition in Skowhegan for more than a quarter of a century. It starts with a holiday parade Friday evening and continues Saturday morning and afternoon with a host of free activities and treats throughout and near downtown, including pictures with Santa, hula hooping, and the popular elf scavenger hunt!
New this year, we’re moving Municipal Lot activities to Debe River Walk and turning it into a WHOVILLE STROLL. We’re so excited to bring this festive theme to the stroll and enjoy more of our trails and downtown. Stay tuned for Whoville Stroll details.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16th – 3PM-7PM
Maine Grains, 42 Court Street Skowhegan, Maine
Join the Maine Grain Alliance at our wood-fired mobile oven to celebrate Worldwide Community Bake Day! The Maine Grain Alliance will have our oven hot and ready to bake anything you bring with you! Feel free to bring doughs of all types and learn some tips for wood-fired baking while we share baking traditions with one another. Everyone is welcome to this free event!
JULY 25 – 26TH 2019, 9AM – 5PM
Skowhegan State Fairgrounds
33 Constitution Avenue, Skowhegan, Maine
Each year we gather farmers, millers, bakers, maltsters, researchers, and grain enthusiasts from around the world for two days of intensive baking workshops, wood-fired oven building workshops, and discussions about grain growing and running grain businesses. Attendees choose from hands-on workshops, live demonstrations, lectures, panel discussions and more.
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2019, 9AM – 3PM
Skowhegan State Fairgrounds
33 Constitution Avenue, Skowhegan, Maine
Come for delicious breads and pastries, handmade pizza baked in a wood-fired oven, handmade kitchen wares, Artisan halvah, maple syrup, jams, butter, cheese, the best books and equipment for baking at home, professional bakers to answer your questions, live music, beautiful kitchen linens, demos, and superb Maine made foods.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 3PM – 7PM
Historic Downtown Skowhegan, Maine
Maine Grains Gristmill Tour beginning at 1:30pm. The 4th annual Skowhegan Brew fest will feature an array of Maine craft brewers, local food vendors featuring farm-to-table fare, live music, and guided tours of Maine Grains at the Somerset Grist Mill and of Skowhegan’s section of the Langlais Art Trail will combine to make an unforgettable close to summer.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 25TH – 1PM
60 Cates Rd. Parkman, ME 04443
Potluck supper beginning at 4pm. Demonstration on cleaning and drying grains, including a demo of an Almaz cleaner and solar bubble dryer as part of MGA’s Post-harvest Grain Project. Efficient strategies for cleaning, drying and storing high quality grains as well as to increase market value of a wide variety of grains through the use of innovative equipment. Later in the day we will spend time in the fields and talk about the crops, soil health and their diversified livestock collection.
