This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Symposium, a state-wide gathering of LGBTQ+ community members and activists held annually for 25 years. Free and open to all. ASL interpreted.

Featuring more than 75 species of native wildflowers, shrubs, and tree seedlings.

Workshops, info tables, expert advice, books, and more!

Come celebrate World Ocean Day! Let’s marvel at the ocean as we make a mini-tide pool habitat using touchable objects, explore the Museum & Theatre’s tide pool tank, and identify ocean plant life with a sensory seaweed table.

Once heavily polluted by textile mills, paper mills, and other industries located along its banks, the Androscoggin was one of the inspirations behind the Clean Water Act. Bringing together their respective backgrounds, John Lichter and Scot McFarlane will explore the role of history and ecology in understanding the Androscoggin River. This includes asking the question about why and by whom the river was forgotten and why it became Maine's working river. Not only has the Androscoggin been Maine's most polluted river, it may also be the state's most interesting.

This year, Indigo Arts Alliance celebrates Juneteenth, bringing The Welcome Table back to Maine. The gathering will feature art workshops, movement and meditation, cross-cultural history, community-building, and cooking led by local and national activists and cultural workers.

Join Garbage to Garden at our farm, Fern Song Farm in Windham, for our weekly Saturday seedling sale! RAIN OR SHINE. Saturdays 9am-1pm (May 25th, June 1st). Stop by the greenhouse for a wide variety of vegetable, herb, and flower seedlings. Join us for an 11am tour of our composting operations to learn about how food scraps collected by Garbage to Garden get turned into nutrient-rich compost.

Join Midcoast Conservancy and the Atlantic Salmon Federation on World Fish Migration Day, May 25th, for a dedication ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Branch Pond Dam and Fishway Project! This year, for the first time in over 200 years, river herring will be able to access Branch Pond to spawn. You’ll learn about the new Branch Pond Fishway and other recently completed fish passage projects in the Sheepscot River.

Hosted at the historic Mallet Barn on the water at Wolfe's Neck Farm in Freeport, Maine Wild Wine Fest is a joyful way to connect and taste with many of the top natural wine importers and producers in America.

The Portland Public Library; Friends of Congress Square Park; Portland Gear Hub; Portland Bike Party; City of Portland Maine Parks, Recreation & Facilities Department; Portland Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee; CyclingSavvy; and the Bicycle Coalition of Maine host an annual celebration in Congress Square Park with coffee and bagels generously donated by Tandem Coffee Roasters and Rose Foods, as well as bike mechanic demos, safe cycling tips, safety gear giveaways, music to get your day started on the right note, and more!

In this webinar, Dr. Mariam Taleb will lead a presentation and discussion on the social and environmental dimensions of invasive species and how we approach them; as well as offer some practical guidelines for sustainably managing introduced species in your farm, garden, or community.

Black, Haitian American composer, violinist and activist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) returns in a celebratory new project spanning February-May 2024 and culminating in a day of community programs and an outdoor public performance at the at the historic Abyssinian Meeting House. This is a site-responsive composition project that aims to reflect the breath, sorrow and beauty of Portland, Maine’s complex history and relationship to its Black community, utilizing live performance to mark, reclaim and celebrate a site of significance and enduring legacy. With the Abyssinian Meeting House as inspiration, DBR shares an original work, to which local artists across disciplines are invited to remix and respond.

Attention families excited to dress up and be in an important parade... the Little Pollinator Parade is designed especially with toddlers and preschoolers in mind. Help Maine Audubon and Birth Roots celebrate, raise awareness, and call attention to the vital importance of our pollinators by dressing up as a bee, butterfly, ladybug, hummingbird, bat or other favorite woodland friend for some photo opportunity family activism

Join us for our grand opening at Fern Song Farm, home to Garbage to Garden composting! Learn about Aerated Static Pile composting and about how food scraps get recycled into nutrient-rich compost. COMPOSTING TOURS & demonstrations: 10am, 12pm. Visit the greenhouse for our SEEDLING SALE, offering a wide variety of vegetables, herbs, and flowers! Family friendly: face painting, temporary tattoos, coloring, planting activity, goats, and more!

The Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine is proud to present Flying Colors: Benefit Art Auction, an in-person and online auction celebrating the incredible talent of local Maine artists while raising funds for CMTM’s Community Fund. Eat, drink and make merry while bidding on more than 100 works of art! Guests will enjoy full access to three floors of exhibits, art activities, and delicious food and drinks for purchase.

Join MOFGA to celebrate (belated) Earth Day with a spring cleanup at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine, on Saturday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Spend time tidying the grounds to get ready for the upcoming growing season and events MOFGA will be hosting. Tasks include raking, garden bed prep, working in the kitchen, cleaning up the woodlot and more.

Join certified Forest Therapy Guide Jennifer Comeau for an immersive sensory experience in the woods on the eve of Earth Day!

This Earth Week, South Portland is hosting its first ever plogging event! Plogging is a combination of jogging while picking up litter. It originated in Sweden in 2016, but has caught on and spread all over! Note: Plogging requires a lot of stopping along the way, so even if you aren’t an avid jogger, you can still participate and have fun! Everyone will meet at Redbank Community Center, where they will receive clean up supplies and be divided into one of the four groups. Each group will have a group leader and be assigned a specific area of town.

Please join Runways Run Club and Austin Street Brewery for the 7th Annual Portland Plog Pluck on April 20th, a city street clean up project! If you’ve never heard of plogging, it’s “plucking” trash while “jogging” = plogging! If you’ve never plogged, it’s a great way to get out into the community and make a visible difference.

The City of Portland is hosting a free, family-friendly Earth Day Celebration in Payson Park on Saturday, April 20, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM! City departments are teaming up with local green organizations to host a festival of fun.There will be music, food trucks, facepaint, balloon animal making, and outdoor activities for the whole family.

Join Girl Scouts of Maine at L.L.Bean in Freeport on April 20, 2024 from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. to celebrate Earth Day. This FREE, fun-filled day is for the whole family! Learn how you can take action to keep Maine green today and in the future.

Help collect litter around our community’s waterfront for a cleaner Rockland Harbor and waterfront. You’ll be provided with all the tools you need. Coffee and a snack will be served in the morning, and a community cookout for all volunteers will be held at noon.