by GrowSmart Maine | Oct 4, 2017 | GrowSmart News, Uncategorized
By Pete Didisheim, guest author Over the past 200 years, the Kennebec River has gone through a remarkable cycle of depletion and recovery. Sitting on the banks of the river today, watching osprey in flight and sturgeon breaching, it is difficult to picture how...
by GrowSmart Maine | Sep 29, 2017 | GrowSmart News
“I don’t ask you your age, don’t ask mine.” Earlier this year GrowSmart Maine asked members, colleagues and total strangers to take a survey. We wanted to know which issues matter to them, how they thought we should address them and, oh yeah, how they thought we were...
by GrowSmart Maine | Sep 14, 2017 | GrowSmart News
Join us in an exploration of the transportation ecosystem at our upcoming Walkability Forum in Bangor, Sept 19th. Register now! By Carol Morris. Working with all different kinds of people is a big part of my job as a public outreach consultant. As a matter of fact, if...
by GrowSmart Maine | Sep 6, 2017 | GrowSmart News, Uncategorized
Registration now open for the half-day forum September 19th in Bangor Full Program & Registration Information Here: The Case For Walkability: Health, Economic Development, and Sustainability By Karen Marysdaughter In 2015 my partner and I moved into Bangor after...
by GrowSmart Maine | Aug 30, 2017 | GrowSmart News
Registration now open for the September Forum: The Case for Walkability: Health, Economic Development and Sustainability Sept 19th, Bangor Maine By Lynne Seeley I heard a saying once – birds love to fly, fish love to swim, and dogs love to walk. I can attest to...
by GrowSmart Maine | Aug 22, 2017 | GrowSmart News, Uncategorized
By Executive Director Nancy Smith || I’ve been paying attention to the very public debate about the Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument with the same curiosity as most Mainers, and this past weekend, I traveled a few hours north to explore the Katahdin...
by GrowSmart Maine | Aug 21, 2017 | GrowSmart News, Uncategorized
By Susan Ransom Last night I walked over to our community garden plot with my husband and our dog, greeting neighbors (and their dogs) along the way. Within five blocks I can walk to the library, the Quality Shop, Pat’s Meat Market, Baxter Woods, Siano’s restaurant,...
by GrowSmart Maine | Aug 10, 2017 | GrowSmart News
To the Members of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission August 10, 2017 As noted in my testimony yesterday, I am providing a written summary of my remarks. I was encouraged to hear the Chair of the Commission state that it is not the goal of...
by GrowSmart Maine | Jul 21, 2017 | GrowSmart News, Uncategorized
By Patrick Wright, Director of Gardiner Main Street. I’ve always been interested in the popular Mainers’ term “From Away”, which conjures up a certain amount of disgust and frustration. I normally hear the term when referring to people...
by GrowSmart Maine | Jul 12, 2017 | GrowSmart News
By Nancy Smith, Executive Director, GrowSmart Maine I traveled to Biddeford on Saturday July 1 to enjoy the open house at Joseph Webster Glass, a hot glass studio, and to revisit places I came to know as we prepared for our 2015 Summit in this city. What a fabulous...