Events
Smithereen Farm hosts workshops in collaboration with our sister organization, Greenhorns.
- Greenhorns offers free and low-cost events for the benefit of the local and regional community. If you enjoy a free event, consider making a tax deductible donation to Greenhorns to support our programming
- Many events require advance registration; please follow the registration link within the workshop description.
- Coming for an event and want to stay a while? You can book a tent platform via HipCamp.
- Refund Policy: Due to our rural location and small event sizes workshop registrations are not refundable.
Looking for food and agriculture events in Downeast Maine? Check out the Eat Downeast event calendar for fairs, festivals, workshops, meet-ups, demonstrations, plant sales, family-friendly events, and more.
Greenhorns and Smithereen Farm partner to offer educational seaweed harvest events. This is our seventh year of offering Low Low Tides Seaweed Programming.
These events are multi-day educational and social experiences; at dawn we teach you to harvest responsibly and process wild algae for culinary use. In the afternoon we host teachers for lectures, and there are delightful shared group meals for those who stay on.
Our purpose with this programming is to share our love of the seaweed and wild ecology of the inter-tide, to keep learning and to learn and work in an embodied community of practice. The teachers join us in the water. Kacie Loparto has been learning / teaching seaweed for more than 12 years. The teachers we have chosen reflect some of the areas we feel are important for seaweed stewardship- read on for the afternoon workshop descriptions.
For more information on our theory of change, please read the Seaweed Commons position paper and articles www.seaweedcommons.org. Our goal is to grow a vibrant community of care to protect our access, our coastal ecology and our beloved ocean.
Harvesters must register with the Low Low Tides 2025 — Registration Form, and must obtain proper licensing. (We’ll help!)
We hand-harvest from Cobscook Bay and the nearby Bold Coast. We dry in our greenhouses, for Smithereen Farm to process in for commercial, value-added products like seaweed sprinkle, salt, broth mix, bath soak, and newly added this year… kelp soap! We think that the beautiful and intense physical practice of seaweed wild harvest is a great time for those who are passionate and/or curious on this subject to come, in person, and expose their thinking to the cold water and extreme tides. We offer simple indoor lodging for those interested in joining, and for committed harvesters who can join for the duration, we guide you in obtaining the appropriate licensing and pay for your harvest.
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HARVEST SCHEDULE
June 25: Arrival
June 26-27: Harvesting, processing, drying, learning!
Registration required: Low Low Tides 2025 — Registration Form
Seaweed Symposium Schedule:
June 25: Harvesters arrive
June 26-27: Seaweed Workshop- Harvesting, processing, drying, learning!
June 27, 2025- 8am at Sipp Bay 143-199 Burby Road, Perry ME 04666
Ecologist Walk with Hannah Webber of Acadia National Park’s Schoodic Institute
June 28, 2025- 3pm at Reversing Hall 4 Leighton Point Road, Pembroke ME 04666
Presentation: Journalist Bridget Huber, Seaweed and Climate Change
June 28th, 2025- 4pm at Reversing Hall 4 Leighton Point Road, Pembroke ME 04666
Presentation: Artist Josie Iselin, The Curious World of Seaweed