Please join us this Thursday night. Come see "Growing Local" a film by Maine Farmland Trust. After the movie, hear local perspectives in a Q&A panel featuring Amy Sprague of Wolf Pine Farm in Alfred, Steven Gile of Gile’s Family Farm in Alfred, and Jordan Pike of Two Toad Farm in Lebanon.

Upstairs @ the Alfred Town Hall @ 7pm.

Follow the scent of popcorn...

Growing Local (Trailer) from Seedlight Pictures on Vimeo.

Alfred Conservation Commission's Winter Speaker Series 2015

The Alfred Conservation Commission welcomes you to attend our fifth annual winter speaker series. This year includes a talk on home energy efficiency, a Saturday tracking walk, and a movie night! All events are free and open to the public, but the tracking walk requires pre-registration.

Thursday, January 15, 7pm, upstairs at the Alfred Town Hall
Fred Greenhalgh of Revision Energy presents Energy Options for Homeowners - Using Solar + Electric Heat to Save Money & the Environment

He’ll cover:

Fred’s ‘hierarchy of energy needs’ – prioritizing projects in your home: weatherization, appliances, mechanical systems, renewable energy

Heat pumps – How the new generation of electric heating equipment is revolutionizing the way Mainers heat their homes

All about solar – how it works, what makes for a good site, is it right for you, financing/ways to make solar affordable

See more at:
http://www.revisionenergy.com/blog/event/energy-options-homeowners-using-solar-electric-heat-save-money-environment/

Saturday, February 14, 10am, Massabesic Experimental Forest, Ida Jim Road
Tracking walk with Connie Studer of White Pine Programs – REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Bundle up and come explore Alfred's woods as we look for wildlife tracks! Learn to find tracks, and use their shape, size, pattern and other clues to solve wildlife mysteries... Who passed here? How long ago? What were they doing? In between tracks, enjoy some of Connie’s famous story-telling about her many tracking adventures (and misadventures)!
The walk is free but pre-registration is required. Sign up at the Alfred Town Hall or email Amy at amy@finalrune.com

Thursday, March 12, 7pm, upstairs at the Alfred Town Hall
Movie Night: Growing Local, followed by a Q&A with a panel of local farmers
This film by Maine Farmland Trust explores the growing pains of the local food movement and the uncertain fate of the farmers and farmland that keep it alive. The locavore movement is old news. Growing Local takes the conversation to the next level. While “buying local” is on the rise, these three poignant vignettes make clear that small farms and access to locally produced food is not a sure thing.

After the movie, hear a very local perspective in a Q&A panel featuring Amy Sprague of Wolf Pine Farm in Alfred, Steven Gile of Gile’s Family Farm in Alfred, and Jordan Pike of Two Toad Farm in Lebanon.

See more at http://www.mainefarmlandtrust.org/films/

Endangered Species Road Watch - Info Session March 19 6:30 - 7:30pm in Alfred

On Monday March 19, 6:30pm  - 7:30pm
Downstairs at Parsons Memorial Library
Audubon will talk about their Wildlife Road Watch Program

Winter Speaker Series Features Saw Whet Owls

Alfred’s second annual Winter Wildlife Speaker Series continues Thursday March 8, 6:30-7:30pm upstairs at Alfred’s Town Hall, with a presentation by Judy Camuso from the Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

She’ll tell us about her work banding Northern saw-whet owls in southern Maine. She operates one of 25 banding stations along the east coast, set up to better understand this elusive animal. These tiny, beautiful owls weigh only a couple of ounces and many people mistake them for baby owls. They are fairly common in Maine, but small, quiet, and nocturnal – making them rarely seen and difficult to study!

Free and open to the public!

Sponsored by the Alfred Conservation Commission

Join Us with Parish Paddlers on July 17!

Join us for a joint event with the Parish Paddlers on Sunday, July 17 during Alfred Festival weekend.  We will be having a picnic lunch by Shaker Pond (park at Brother's landing) with barbecue and paddling out on the pond.  Come one come all!

MAY 5: Small Town Growth in Maine: How It Happens, What It Means For Your Kids, and How To Plan For Enough Clean Water Before It's Too Late.

Join LaMarr Clannon, Maine Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) Coordinator for a discussion on basic principals of non-point source pollution and increased flows due to stormwater, the relationship between land use, natural resource protection and water quality, planning and site design options to reduce the impacts from development.

Upstairs at Alfred town hall from 6:30pm - 7:30pm, Thursday May 5

Sponsored by Alfred Conservation Commission

Alfred Conservation Events

Join us on May 5 for an event with LaMarr Clannon!

Coming this summer - hikes and more