This community event offers Mainers a weekend of family fun honoring the state's timber industry, with local woodsmen demonstrations, working forest tours, a logging competition, craft fair, evening performances, woodsmen supper and more.

As you know, the FHD event is an opportunity to bring new faces from all over Maine to the Moosehead Lake Region - and we request your help to make this year's event the best ever!

If you or your organization has social media outlets, please consider "liking" us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MaineForestHeritageDays

We would also appreciate your help sharing some important information about the event with your followers, such as the sample posts provided below.

If you're looking for a farm that will let you pick your own blueberries, you're in luck because there are several in Maine. Most places are opening mid to late July, but some not until the first of August. If a farm has a website or Facebook page, I included a link. It's really important to check ahead to make sure a farm is open for picking. If you want to add someone/something ( e.g., if organic) or notice an error please let me know — you can send a comment at the end of the post. Read more ...

Part two of a series on hunger in Maine.

In America there is an assumption that with girth comes wealth and that people who are food insecure or malnourished are also automatically thin. Let’s remember that food insecurity means lacking reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. Read more ...