Friday Schedule
Saturday Schedule
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Fair opens at 9a.m., closes at 5p.m.
Location Codes!
Most locations for events listed in the schedule are abbreviated. Here are the codes:
AD-1 - Agricultural Demonstrations, Tent 1
AD-2 - Agricultural Demonstrations, Tent 2
ADET - Agricultural Demonstration Exhibitors' Tent
BP -- Bicycle Parking
CA - Children's Area
CKD - Country Kitchen Demonstration Tent
CS - Country Store
ENV - Environmental Concerns Speakers' Tent
ES - Energy and Shelter Speakers' Tent
FA-1 - Folk Arts Tent 2
FA-2 - Folk Arts Tent 2
FP - Field Plots
FT - Fleece Tent
HH - Health and Healing Speakers' Tent
HT - Herb Tent
HST -- Harry S. Truman Games
LIF - Low Impact Forestry Tent
LL - Large Livestock Demo Area
LRP - Livestock Round Pen
LS-1 - Horse Barn
LS-2 - Oxen Barn
LS-3 - Cattle Barn
LST - Livestock Speaker's Tent
MAT - Maine Apple Tent
MB - Maintenance Building
MFC - Maine Folklife Center Tent
NAA - Native American Arts & Education Area
NO - North Orchard
PB - Poultry Barn
RT - Rabbit Tent
SDA - Sheep Dog Demo Area
SGB - Sheep/Goat Barn
SLB - Small Livestock Barn
SO - South Orchard
SPA - Social & Political Action Speakers' Tent
SR - Show Ring
SS - Spotlight Stage
SW - Stone Workers' Area
WL -- Wood Lot
WLT - Whole Life Tent
WS - Wednesday Spinners' Area
YEZ - Youth Enterprise Zone
2005 Sunday Schedule of Events
Agriculture & Forestry Demos
Ongoing -- Stump to Stickers Demo/WL
9:15/Women's Agricultural Network/Vivianne Holmes/AD-1
9:15/NewFarm.org: An E-zine and Internet-based Tools for Organic Farmers (& wannabe's)/Shepherd Ogden & New Farm Staff/MB
10:00 & Ongoing/Stump to Stickers Demo/Don Webb & LIF Staff/WL
10:00/How I Grow Asparagus/Jamie Greager/AD-1
10:00/Organic Greenhousing and High Tunnel Production/John Pino of Mooar Hill Farm/AD-2
10:00/Veganic Farming: Improving Soil Quality without Manures/Will Bonsall, Khadigar Farm/MB
10:00/Scythe Mowing Demo/Staff of Scythe Supply/Scythe Supply Booth in Farm & Homesteading Area
11:00/Forestry for Kids/Barrie Brusila, Maine Forest Guild/LIF
11:00/Foraging and Feasting on Fungi Fearlessly/Richard Tory/AD-1
11:00/Root Crops: Growing, Storing & Marketing/Dennis King, King Hill Farm/AD-2 11:00/Growing Cut Flowers/John Fromer, Apple Ridge Flower & Vegetable Farm/MB
11:00/Answers to Your Organic Vegetable Questions/Eric Sideman/ MOFGA's Technical Services Director /ADET
11:00/Tour Restoring Our Seed Breeding Projects/CR Lawn & Eli Kaufman, Restoring Our Seed/NO
12:00/Correct Tree Pruning & Wood Products/Maine Forest Service Staff/LIF
12:00/Cont.-- Foraging and Feasting on Fungi Fearlessly/Richard Tory/AD-1
12:00/Seed Saving/Will Bonsall, Khadigar Farm/AD-2
12:00/Large Scale Perennial Gardens/ John Fromer, Apple Ridge Flower & Vegetable Farm/MB
12:00/Answers to Your Organic Livestock Management Questions/Diane Schivera, MOFGA Technical Services Program/ADET
1:00/Group Certification for Small Landowners/ Paul Miller, SWOAM/LIF
1:00/Managng a Patch of Wild Blueberries/Arthur Harvey/AD-1
1:00/Farms for the Future: A Business Planning and Grant Program for Maine Farmers/Kerrie Sands, CEI/Maine Farms Project/AD-2
1:00/Demystifying Eggplant and Peppers/Bob Kline, Zephyr Hill Farm/MB
1:00/Scythe Mowing Demo/Staff of Scythe Supply/meet at Scythe Supply Booth in Farm & Homesteading Area
2:00/Women and the Woods-Barrie Brusila/ Maine Forest Guild/LIF
2:00/Small Scale Grain Growing in Maine/Will Bonsall, Khadigar Farm/AD-2
2:00/Romp & Chomp: An Interactive Vegetable Tasting/Jack Kertesz/NO
3:00/How to Use Your Garden Space Effectively/Will Bonsall, Khadigar Farm/MB
Animal Shows & Demos
ALL DAY/Draft Horse Show/SR;
Ongoing -- Rabbit Spinning Demos, Rabbit Tent;
Fleece Sale and Fleece Note demos, display, networking/FT;
Poultry Displays & Demos - check schedule at Poultry Barn; Ongoing--Small Farm Power Options/Don Nickerson & Friends/FP;
Horsedrawn rides by Horsepower Farm & Darthia Farm./LL
9:00- 4:00/Draft Horse Show/SR
9:15/Harrowing & Planting with Horses & Mules/Horse & Mule Teamsters/FP
9:30-12:00/Ongoing Oxen Demos/Oxen Teamsters/LL
9:30/Sheep Dog Demos/Dave Kennard, Wellscroft Farm/SDA
10:00/Harnessing a Horse/Genio Burton-Sara Faull, Mandala Farm/LS-1
10:00/Revitalizing Old Pastures/Diane Schivera, MOFGA Technical Services Program/LST
10:00/Lunging for Respect/Jan Rowe, Honk & Donk Farm/LRP
11:00/Poultry Barn Primer/Johanna Moore, Ledgehill Farm/LST
11:00/Fleece Notes-Managing a Herd for Quality Fleeces/FT
12:00/Having Fun with Your Horse/Roberta Manter/LRP
12:30/Sheep Dog Demos/Dave Kennard, Wellscroft Farm/SDA
12:00/Answers to Your Organic Livestock Management Questions/Diane Schivera, MOFGA Technical Services Program/ADET
1:00/ A Poultryman's Journey/William Reed/LST
1:30 - 3:30/Oxen Log Scooting Contest/LL
2:00/Eight Mule Hitch & Mule Demos/Pinehill Mules & Broomtail Farm/FP
2:00/Raising Quail/Dave Caviano/LST
2:30/Training Donkeys and Mules for a Show/Claire Wallace, Haffass Farm/LRP.
3:30/Oxen Contest Awards/LL
3:30/Sheep Dog Demos/Dave Kennard, Wellscroft Farm/SDA
3:30/Dairy Goat Milking and Care/Lisa Reilich, Painted Pepper Farm/FM
Children's Events
ALL DAY/Demos for Children -- see Sandwich Board Schedule; Arts & Crafts; Face Painting; and plenty of FUN/CA
10:00/Papermaking/Richard Lee/CA
10:15-10:30/Dress for Garden Parade/CA
10:30/Garden Parade/Roving Performance
11:00/Maine Apple Adventure: Interactive Session/MAT
11:30/Tricky Rick Magic/CA
1:00/ Papermaking/Richard Lee/CA
1:00/Maine Apple Adventure: Interactive Session/MAT
1:30/Inkawasi/CA
2:15-2:30/Dress for Garden Parade/CA
2:30/Garden Parade/Roving Performance
3:30/Mary Ukelady/CA
Entertainment, Music, Food Prep Classes and Special Events
Roving Performances by the Garden Parade, Bog Stompers, Martin Swinger, & The Maine Squeeze
6:45-7:45/Register for 5-K Foot Race/Race Tent/Rose Parking Lot
8:00/5-K Foot Race/Race Tent/Rose Parking Lot
9:30/Homemade Cheesemaking/Debbie Hahn/CKD
10:00/Horseshoe Toss/HST
10:00/Lynn Deeves/SS
10:00/Register for Fiddler's Showcase/Amphitheater
10:30/Fiddler's Showcase/Amphitheater
10:30/Sprouting Sprouts/Becca Smith/CKD
11:00/Keynote Address: Creating Sustainable Communities/Dennis Kucinich/The Common
11:30/Inkawasi/SS
12:00/Hip Chick Macrobiotic Cooking/Jessica Porter/CKD
12:00-1:30/Susan Balch, designer of 2005 Fair Artwork, will sign posters/CS
12:30-12:45/Humble Farmer/SS
1:00/A Conversation about Common Sense and the "real" Pursuit of Happiness./Common
1:00/Bonnie & Pete Tucker/SS
1:00/Dave Mallet/Amphitheater
1:30/Homemade Wines/Jim Baranski/CKD
2:00/Tour the Tables with MOFGA's Vegetable Expert/CR Lawn/Exhib. Hall
2:00/Ellen Owre/SS
2:30/Celeriac and Its Uses/Roberta Bailey/CKD
2:30/Frigate/Amphitheater
3:30/Jessie Chazin/SS
Environmental Concerns, Energy and Shelter
ALL DAY/Safe bike driver demos and test pilot unique cycles; Free Bike Safety Checks; Free Maine Tire Air; Maine Bicycle Coalition/BP
9:00/Easy Tire Repair for All Ages/Bicycle Coalition of Maine/BP
9:00/Wind Turbines, Wildlands and Right Whales--the Importance of Thinking Regionally/ENV
10:00/Electric Bike Forum/Bicycle Coalition of Maine/BP
10:00/Know Wolves/Ann MacMichael or John Glowa, Maine Wolf Coalition/ENV
11:00/Cycling Roots, The Wheelmen/Noah oldbikeguy/BP
11:00/Renewables Can Do the Job-Making Hydrogen without Fossil Fuels or Nuclear Energy/ES
11:00/ Plum Creek/Diano Circo, North Woods Project Outreach Coordinator
National Resource Council of Maine/ENV
12:00/Awareness and the Art of Seeing - Foxwalking to Notice/Jen Deraspe, Nurture through Nature/ENV
12:00/Heating with an Outdoor Wood Boiler/Rick Thibodeau/ES
1:00/Simple Tire Repair/Bicycle Coalition of Maine/BP
2:00/A Proposal for a Maine Woods National Park/Ken Spaulding, Restore the North Woods/MB
2:00/Using The Clean Water Act to Fight Aerial Pesticide Spraying/Matthew Davis, Environment Maine/ENV
3:00/Backyard Adventures, Facilitated Adventure Initiatives for All Ages/ENV
4:00/The Future of Food -- GE Free Maine/Director Deborah Koons-Garcia, Lily Films/ENV
Folk Arts, Native American Arts and Herbal Talks
ALL DAY/Continuous -- Choosing Fleece, Washing Wool, Picking & Carding Wool, Drop Spindle, Spinning, & 7 Stick Journey Loom; Community Weaving. Fairgoers can bring their wheel and join in the centuries-old art of spinning together/Wednesday Spinners/WS.
Ongoing Demos: Soapstone Carving with Kids; Granite Carving; Stone Splitting/Maine Stone Workers Guild/SW
9:00/Oral History: Women in Agriculture/Pogo Pogovek/MFC
10:00/Porcupine Quill Pendant/Porcupine/$5/FA-1
10:00/Calendula: Seed to Salve & Beyond/Janet Edwards/HT
10:00/Oral History: Women in Agriculture/WAgN member/MFC
10:30/Class: Cordage Making/Earthways/$2/FA-1
10:30/Mortise & Tenon Joinery/Mahousuc Guide Service/FA-1
11:00/Plants as Teachers-Finding a Plant Ally/Linda Tisdale/HT
11:00/Choosing a Fleece, Washing Wool, Picking, Carding, Spinning/Wednesday Spinners/WS
11:00/Oral History: Windsor Chair Making/Panel Members/MFC
12:00/Enhancing Vitality with Root Teas, Tinctures, Powders and Soups/Deb Soule/HT
12:00/Bean Hole Bean Tasting/Bean Hole Bean Team/MFC
1:00/Herbs for Colds & Coughs/Joanna Linden/HT
1:00/Ash and Sweetgrass Basketry Demo/Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance (MIBA)/NAA
1:00/Demo: Snowshoe Lacing /Earthways/FA-1
1:00/Class: Card Weaving/Michael Patterson/$10/FA-2
1:00/Shape Note Singing/Belfast Shape Note Singers/MFC
2:00/Making Mushroom Medicine-Maine Medicinal Mushrooms/Brenda Lynn Gould/HT
2:00/Dyeing with Maine Grown Indigo/Wednesday Spinners/WS
2:00/Class: Porcupine Quill Pendant/Porcupine/$5/FA-1
2:00/Oral History: Women in Agriculture/WAgN Member/MFC
3:00/Demo: Old Time Music/Bound to Have a Little Fun/MFC
3:00/Family Contra Dance/Franklin County Fiddlers/FA-Open Area
Health and Healing and Whole Life Tent
10:00/Hypnotherapy/Jack Cole/WLT
10:00/Beyond the China Study/Christopher Maloney.N.D./HH
11:00/The Shamanic Journey/Susan Bakaley-Marshall and Chris Marshall/WLT
11:00/Peaceful Birth: Peaceful Earth/Jill Breen, CPM/HH
12:00/Feng Shui & Health/Werner Brandmaier/WLT
12:00/Traditional Passamaquoddy Medicine/Fredda Paul & Leslie Wood Paul/HH
1:30/Native American Spirituality/Darlene Jerome & Trisha Morey/WLT
3:00/Reiki/WLT Staff & Reiki Master Volunteers/WLT
Social and Political Action
9:15/An Interesting Year on the Taxation Committee & Where We Go from Here/Senator Ethan Strimling /SPA
10:00/From Struggling Family Farms to Thriving Village/Fred Jones, Community Farms/SPA
10:30/Building Kingdom of God on Earth-A Bahai Perspective/Clair Cline/SPA
11:00/Nonviolent Responses to World Conflict-How We Can End Classism/Joanne Sheenan, War Resisters League/SPA
12:00/Voices of War/Doug Rawlings, Veterans for Peace/SPA
1:00/Contra Dance & Singing/Downeast Country Dance Assoc./Between SPA Tents
2:00/the US's Quiet War in Columbia: Drugs or Resources/Noah Dudley, Christian Peacemaker Teams/SPA
3:00/Read to Feed: Reading Incentive & Global Education Program/Anna Barber, Heifer International/SPA
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA)
Common Ground Country Fair
PO Box 170
Unity, ME 04988
Phone: 207-568-4142
Fax: 207-568-4141
Email: cgcf@mofga.org