Kitchen gardens have existed since antiquity and are still popular today. Why have these gardens been important to western cultures? How were they designed and how are they used today? What were the diets of people over the centuries and how did kitchen gardens help support families? What were and are popular vegetables and herbs […]
Special Announcement: There is a schedule change for next weeks Tuesday Talk on May 6th. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Greg LeClair’s talk on the Vernal Pool has been moved to Tuesday, June 27th at noon. That will be an in-person, all weather talk with a walk out to the Vernal Pool. Don’t miss it! Laura […]
Come to Merryspring Nature Center for a talk by Head Gardener Denise DeSpirito. Denise will discuss care of herb gardens in spring and demonstrate planting seedlings. Please join us for an early season herb garden tour to see what is growing. A great way to learn plants is to see them in each phase of […]
Dick Vermeulen, a member of the Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers (KLCB) and Maine State Beekeepers (MSBA), will be talking about the fascinating hobby of keeping honey bees alive and productive in Maine. His presentation will include beekeeping start up equipment, the cast of characters in the hive, worker bee tasks as they age, bees as pollinators, […]
Merryspring Nature Center in Camden will be hosting a vernal pool talk and exploration on May 6 from 12PM to 1PM. The talk will be presented by Dr. Gregory LeClair, a biologist from the Beginning with Habitat program at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Greg will review vernal pool ecology and lead […]