Women and the Woods Announced 2006 Training Series
Contact: Vivianne Holmes, 800-287-1458 or 207-353-5550
ORONO –The Women and the Woods program will hold a “kitchen table” meetings for woman woodland owners all around Maine between now and December. The first session, on marketing, marking boundary lines, deeds, and soils in a woodlot, is scheduled for Thursday June 15. This event will be held at Midsummer Night’s Meadow Farm in Garland on Thursday, June 15 from 4 – 7 p.m. This workshop is sponsored by University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Women’s Agricultural Network (WAgN) and the Maine Forest Service. Peter Lammert, Project Forester with the Maine Forest Service, will provide the training.
The Women and the Woods Program is designed to teach women woodland owners about options for caring for their woodland, in a way that is supportive of women’s preferred learning styles. The program provides opportunities for discussion and networking with other women woodland owners, and offers participatory, hands-on and/or outdoor learning activities. Women and the Woods was created in direct response to requests from women landowners for a forestry program for women.
Everyone is welcome; participants should be prepared to walk in the woods. For more information and to pre-register, call 800-287-1458 (in Maine) or 207-353-5550.
Locally organized meetings are scheduled for various locations around Maine during the next several months: