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: Natural Whisks for the Sauna, a workshop by Kelly Crimmins of Big Towel!
Big Towel is a pop-up wood fired sauna and cold plunge project that operates two wood fired mobile saunas for public and private use, with residencies in different areas of the Hudson Valley. bigtowelspa.com
Registration required, register here.
10am — Arrival to Smithereen Farm
10–11:30am — Whisk Talk: Based on her experience in Lithuania at the International Bathing Academy, Kelly Crimmins from Big Towel will give a presentation on the creation and use of natural whisks in bathing culture. The group will walk the farm, learning about the preferred properties of plants for use in the sauna (and which plants not to use!). The group will harvest plants, herbs, and tree branches to make whisks and other tools for use in the sauna.
11:30am–12pm — Making whisks to get ready for the sauna.
12pm — Simple lunch in the Timber Frame Summer kitchen
12-4pm — Sauna and tub sessions including group whisking, self whisking, breaks, snacks, bathing. For this session, the six soaking tubs will be shared; participants are asked to shower thoroughly before use of the seaweed soaking tubs.
Max capacity 12ppl: $125 per person
Pablo available for massage 10am-6pm, (617) 721-9452, https://pablotherapeuticmassage.com/ Please book directly, in advance.
Registration required, register here.
ABOUT SMITHEREEN FARM TUBS AND SAUNA
Our six cast iron tubs sit under the orchard overlooking Cobscook Bay, just a few steps from the Bill Copperthwaite style wooden sauna.
- Guests arrive to the farm at 10am (morning session) or 4pm (afternoon session) and are greeted with herbal tea and a little guided walk around the orchards. Guests are given privacy to change into their bathing suits and go back and forth between the sauna and tubs. Most people spend about 2 hours back and forth at their leisure.
- Each person has their own private cold plunge tub with seaweed, salt scrub, and mud mask provided. The sauna is a shared, quiet space.
- You may choose to book (separately) an optional massage by appointment, which are offered by local massage therapists in the farm’s yurt. Available therapist contact information is noted below.
- At the conclusion of the spa day guests are welcomed to walk to the beach (12 minutes round trip) or through the forest to Long Cove (35 minutes round trip) to complete the “forest bathing” component.
- If you wish, you can extend your enjoyment by getting lunch at the Smithereen Farmstore (12 Little Falls Road, open 9am-5pm 7 days a week) or by visiting Reversing Hall Library Open Hours (Location: 4 Leighton Point Road, Sundays 1-3)
- Consider staying the weekend, and booking a tent platform at Blueberry Land! Book directly through HipCamp.
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LOCATION
Smithereen Farm is located at 767 Leighton Point Road in Pembroke, Maine, 04666. Turn right into the driveway, and park in the gravel lot on your left at the top of the hill, 100 yards past the farmhouse. The tubs and sauna are just behind the farmhouse.
WHAT TO BRING…
Bring your own towel, your bathing suit (if you’d like), water bottle, vessel for drinking tea, farm-friendly footwear, and a change of clothes.
WE PROVIDE:
We provide a clawfoot tub for soaking, fresh seaweed from the bay, herbal tea, salt scrub, Bixa Fixa salve, access to an outdoor shower with hot water, and access to a shared wood fired sauna. For this workshop, the six tubs will be shared between up to 12 participants. We ask participants to shower thoroughly before entering the soaking tubs.
COST
Cost is $125 per person. We provide a hot sauna and firewood, lovely baths with fresh seaweed, herbal tea, scrub and face mask, and a farm tour.
Registration required, register here.
ADD-ON MASSAGE
If you would like to add on a massage in the yurt, this can be booked separately.
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Pablo Ruiz, Pablo Therapeutic Massage (617) 721-9452, https://pablotherapeuticmassage.com $150 for 60-minute session