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9:00am EDT

Forestry for Maine Birds Low Impact Forestry Tent Foraging Walk for Traditional Food and Medicine Folk Arts Tent 1 Oxen Demonstrations Large Livestock Demo Area Cart Demo Large Livestock Demo Area Blacksmithing Demonstrations Blacksmith Shop Farm Activities with Kids: Grind Grain, Make Butter, Cider, and Bread! Play Chess Too! Farm & Homestead Kids Tent Spinning, Carding, Wool Prep Demos Wednesday Spinners Antique Windlass Antique Tractors Fleece Sale Fleece Tent Stoneworking Demonstrations Stone Workers

9:15am EDT

Answers to Your Organic Certification Questions MOFGA Tent

9:30am EDT

The Earth Loom and its Purpose Wednesday Spinners Storyteller Moon presents: The Tale of the Sunflower Sword followed by a sunflower craft Sunflower Stage Directional Tree Felling with a Chainsaw Woodlot Goat Milking Demonstration Sheep & Goat Barn Maine Energy Education: Solar, Wind, Electricity Hands-on Demo Children's Area

10:00am EDT

People Powered Bike Parade: Celebration of Wheeled Mobility Bicycle Valet Mowing with and Sharpening the European Scythe Meet at Booth Answers to Your Organic Vegetable Questions MOFGA Tent Beginning Seed Saving for the Home Gardener Windsor Tent Fresh Cider: Can we make it legal again? Hayloft Garlic Planting Demonstration North Orchard MeANS Greenhouse Litchfield Tent Spinning on a Drop Spindle Wednesday Spinners Tree Identification and the Maine Woods Low Impact Forestry Tent 10 Powerful No Cost Health Tips Health & Healing Speakers Tent Care Farming & Animal Assisted Activities & Therapies (AAAT) Livestock Speakers Tent From Riding Horse to Pulling Sledge Round Pen Learning to Twitch and Log With Your Horse Show Ring Raising Heritage Pigs for Meat Pig Pen Sheep Dog Demo Sheep Dogs The Reality of Raising your Own Meat Barn 3 Making Cheese or Yogurt with Goat Milk Country Kitchen Demos Awareness Skills Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Brown Ash Pounding Demonstration Maine Indian Basketmakers How to Use a Drum Carder Sheep & Goat Barn Process Acorns into Flour Folk Arts Tent 1 Plowing and Harrowing Demonstrations Field Plots Bow Drill Fire Making The Woods Bread on a Stick Workshop The Woods Spoon Making Workshop The Woods Various Bicycle Demos Bicycle Valet Vegetable, Fruit, Herb, & Flower Judging Exhibition Hall Horse Drawn Rides Large Livestock Demo Area Highland Cattle Farming Barn 3

10:15am EDT

Dress for the Garden Parade Children's Area

10:30am EDT

Garden Parade (arrive 15 min. early to dress) Children's Area Dave and Fran Plus Spotlight Stage

10:45am EDT

Log Twitching with Draft Animals Woodlot

11:00am EDT

Live Indian (Eastern) Music with Yoga Demo Children's Area Canning Basics Country Kitchen Demos Intro to Vermicomposting Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Advanced Seed Saving Windsor Tent Food Bank Farming 101: Veggies for All Model Litchfield Tent Sustainable Beekeeping Hayloft Angora Rabbit Care 101 Fleece Speakers Tent Ayurveda and Fall Detox Health & Healing Speakers Tent Growing Power and the Good Food Revolution The Common Hands-on Sheep Care Sheep & Goat Barn Heritage Turkey 101 Livestock Speakers Tent The Fjord Draft Breed Round Pen Vaulters of MDI Show Ring Serving Beanhole Beans Bean Hole Beans 17 and Counting: Local Food Sovereignty Ordinance Social & Political Action Speakers Tent Local & Green Energy Options Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Beginning Knot Tying Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Campfire Baking: Cinnamon Rolls Folk Arts Tent 1 Foraging Walk for Traditional Food and Medicine Folk Arts Tent 1 Sew Leather Pouch Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Wabanaki Games & Art for Children Maine Indian Basketmakers Working Dog Team Demo Folk Arts Tent 1 Chakra Shenanigans Whole Life Tent Married with Chitlins Amphitheater Rigging for Directional Tree Falling Woodlot Bound to Have a Little Fun String Band Maine Folk Traditions Stage

11:30am EDT

Muddy Ruckus Spotlight Stage

12:00pm EDT

Paper Bull Puppet Company Puppet Making Workshop Sunflower Stage Deciphering Food Labels MOFGA Tent Lessons Learned at Avian Haven Wild Bird Rehabilitation Railcar Speakers Tent Mowing with and Sharpening the European Scythe Meet at Booth Working with Nature Spirits, Healing & Earth Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Fermented Cider Basics Hayloft Introduction to Growing Hops Windsor Tent The Outdoor Classroom: A Permaculture Approach Litchfield Tent Forestry as if the Climate (and Future) Mattered Low Impact Forestry Tent From Conflict to Connection Health & Healing Speakers Tent Herbal Adaptogens Herb Tent 'Hearing' the Horse's Body Language Round Pen Fun, Freedom, and Connection with Horses Show Ring Managing the Older Horse Livestock Speakers Tent Meat my Goat: Meat Goat Q&A Barn 3 Sheep Dog Demo Sheep Dogs Why Maine Should End Marijuana Prohibition Social & Political Action Speakers Tent Healthy, Energy Efficient Basements Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Intuitive Breathwork Whole Life Tent

12:30pm EDT

Reaping and Binding Oats Field Plots Hollowbody Electric Amphitheater

12:45pm EDT

Sugarbush Spotlight Stage

1:00pm EDT

Women's Tyre Repair Bicycle Valet Delicious Vegetable & Mushroom Broths & Reductions Country Kitchen Demos Mowing with and Sharpening the European Scythe Meet at Booth What to Look for When Purchasing an Older Tractor Antique Tractors The How and Why of Soil Blockers Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Answers to your Organic Livestock Questions MOFGA Tent Backyard Grain Growing Windsor Tent Cider Presses & Grinders: How to Make, What to Buy Hayloft Programs and Services Available from FSA Litchfield Tent Using Green Manures in the Garden or On the Farm South Orchard Choosing the Right Fleece Fleece Speakers Tent Directional Tree Felling with a Chainsaw Woodlot Herbs for Childrens' Health Herb Tent Human Factors and Ergonomics of the Owl Stool Booth at Maine Marketplace Leaving What is Through the Work of Byron Katie Health & Healing Speakers Tent Basics of Rotational Grazing Livestock Speakers Tent Care & Delivery of Newborn Lambs Sheep & Goat Barn Comparing Horse Breeds and Types Round Pen Learning to Twitch and Log With Your Horse Show Ring Vaulters of MDI Show Ring Community poetry reading Russell's Poetry Grove Learn to Play Spoons Class Maine Folk Traditions Stage A Guaranteed Living Income: A Green Party Discussion Social & Political Action Speakers Tent Net Zero Homes Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Braid a Mug Rug Class Folk Arts Tent 2 Foraging Walk for Traditional Food and Medicine Folk Arts Tent 1 How to do a Home Funeral Folk Arts Tent 2 Make a Bracelet for Children Maine Indian Basketmakers Needle Felting a Pumpkin Folk Arts Tent 2 Sharpen Your Knife Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Saw Mill Demonstrations Sawmill Blacksmithing Demonstrations Blacksmith Shop

1:15pm EDT

Martin Swinger Sunflower Stage

1:30pm EDT

Log Scooting Contest Large Livestock Demo Area

2:00pm EDT

People Powered Bike Parade: Celebration of Wheeled Mobility Bicycle Valet Your Legacy--Planned Giving/Major Gifts to MOFGA MOFGA Tent Humanure: It's a Resource! Garden Shed in North Orchard Homemade Granola Bars Country Kitchen Demos How to Make a Monkey Fist and Other Useful Knots Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Grass Fed Veggies Windsor Tent Small Scale Commercial Cider Hayloft 2016 Wool Buy on the Navajo Nation Fleece Speakers Tent How to Extract Lanolin from Raw Wool Sheep & Goat Barn Herbs for A Vibrant, Happy Post-Partum Herb Tent Sahaja Yoga Mediation Health & Healing Speakers Tent Before You Buy a Horse Livestock Speakers Tent Building a Positive Working Relationship With a Draft Horse Round Pen Emu Production in Maine Poultry Barn Sheep Dog Demo Sheep Dogs The Basics of Breeding your own Pigs Pig Pen The Beginning with the Horse Show Ring Connor Garvey Spotlight Stage Contradance Maine Folk Traditions Stage Converting Maine Businesses to Worker Ownership Social & Political Action Speakers Tent Wood Pellets for Today & Tomorrow Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Advanced Knot Tying Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Wilderness Camp Set-Up Folk Arts Tent 1 Working Dog Team Demo Folk Arts Tent 1 Muddy Marsh Ramblers Amphitheater Dairy Products Judging Exhibition Hall Plowing and Harrowing Demonstrations Field Plots

2:15pm EDT

Dress for the Garden Parade Children's Area Log Twitching with Draft Animals Woodlot

2:30pm EDT

Garden Parade (arrive 15 min. early to dress) Children's Area Needle Felting a Sunflower Folk Arts Tent 2

2:35pm EDT

Storytime: Adventures on and around the Good Dirt Farm Sunflower Stage

3:00pm EDT

Trike Forum: Stable, Accessible, Liberating Bicycle Valet Q&A Meet Up for Beginning Farmers MOFGA Tent How to Make a Rope Basket Farm & Homestead Speakers Tent Apple Tasting: Vote for your Favorites Hayloft Old World/New World Crops Windsor Tent Soil Health Principles and Benefits Litchfield Tent Plant Dying Workshop Wednesday Spinners Develop New Habits and Change Your Lifestyle Health & Healing Speakers Tent Maine Tree Medicine Herb Tent Broody Poultry in a Mixed Flock Livestock Speakers Tent Calming the Nervous Horse Round Pen Playing With Your Donkey Show Ring The Whys and Wherefores of War Tax Resistance Social & Political Action Speakers Tent Whole Homestead Retrofit for an Unseen Future Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Carve a Wooden Spoon Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Friction Fire Class Folk Arts Tent 1 Mediumship Whole Life Tent

3:10pm EDT

Herbs for Curious Kids Sunflower Stage

3:15pm EDT

Martin Swinger Spotlight Stage

3:30pm EDT

Ask a Teamster and their Team Low Impact Forestry Tent Zulu Leprechauns Amphitheater

4:00pm EDT

Goat Milking Demonstration Sheep & Goat Barn Favorite Bike Story Bicycle Valet An Introduction to Ocean Gardening and Foods Litchfield Tent Small Scale Hop Growing Windsor Tent Wild Apples for Fermented Cider Hayloft Build a Chicken Tractor Livestock Speakers Tent Bound to Have a Little Fun String Band Maine Folk Traditions Stage How to Select a Remodeling Contractor Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent Needle Felting a Carrot Folk Arts Tent 2 The Bigelow Battle and Environmental Activism Social & Political Action Speakers Tent

4:10pm EDT

John Tercyak Entertainmer Sunflower Stage

4:30pm EDT

Rick Turcotte & Paul Johnson Spotlight Stage

5:00pm EDT

Milking Dairy Goats Barn 3 What Forests and Prairies Can Teach Us Windsor Tent Guinea Fowl 101 Livestock Speakers Tent Contradance Maine Folk Traditions Stage Long Journey Amphitheater Building Community with Solar Energy Energy & Shelter Speakers Tent