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 present a talk by artist Josie Iselin, author of The Curious World of Seaweed.
Preceded by a talk from journalist Bridget Huber, and a farm dinner by chef Cortney Burns (register separately!)
This event is part of the Midsummer Seaweed Symposium, part of the 2025 Low Low Tides Seaweed Series.
This talk is in person in Pembroke, Maine, but you have the option to beam in virtually. LINK TBD.
Josie Iselin is a photographer, author, and designer of many books, with her last few focusing on the world of seaweeds and kelp. Her most recent book, The Curious World of Seaweed (Heyday Books, 2019) is the basis for a traveling exhibition of prints by the same name.
Josie is the co-director of Above/Below, a campaign working to bring the recognition afforded the forests on land to the kelp forests below the ocean’s surface. Above/Below’s signature effort is a web-based book titled The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp, released in November 2023 and has been accessed by over 15,000 kelp-curious learners. Josie is the chief content creator having written all of the text and worked closely with illustrator Ellen Litwiller and her partner Marianna Leuschel.
Josie holds a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She currently teaches in the School of Design at SFSU. For over twenty years Josie has used her flatbed scanner and computer exclusively for generating imagery. Synthesizing the scientific stories of our coast is her overriding passion, bringing thoughtfulness and stewardship to this extraordinary place of discover. Josie’s pronouns are she/her.