Meet the Festival Participants

I'd like to introduce you to the participants of The Festival For Sustainable Skill, hosted by Town Flower Farm, urban farm in Auburn, Maine. It will be Saturday, May 31st from 11 to 3. Come early, seating for the discussions and demonstrations will be limited.

Herbalist Leslie Williams, Registered Herbalist (American Herbalist Guild) will give tours of the medicinal herbs in my back yard. Many of these probably grow in your back yard, you may only know this green medicine as weeds. greyrat.com

A Perron Contracting LLC will provide a couple unique picnic tables of her own design for a BYO Picnic on the mini meadow that is my back yard. Anne is an insured, certified renovator, master rigger and Efficiency Maine vendor with 24+ years of carpentry/contractor experience. "we build solutions for you" amgp72@yahoo.com

Jessica Keneborus will demonstrate how to make safe, effective, inexpensive homemade hand and body lotion in a blender using readily available ingredients. Who needs the illness brought on by phony scents and preservatives in industrial lotions? "not us", says the whole world. 
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Kendall Hinkley, Community Outreach Director of Garbage to Garden, the wildly successful curbside composting company in Portland, will talk about the Curbside Composting Revolution. GarbagetoGarden.org

Sandy Parent, Leader of the Auburn/Lewiston Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts will introduce us to this non-profit, education foundation dedicated to returning nutrient dense foods to our diet through education, research and activism. westonaprice.org

and me. Betty Riggin Allen will discuss Sustainable Community in Lewiston/Auburn and Sustainability Skills for the Home. I'll also give a demonstration of how to make safe, effective, inexpensive homemade household cleaner out of evergreen needles. In the Pine Tree state, there is no reason ever to buy Pinesol, which doesn't actually contain the antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral ingredients of pine.

There will also be opportunities to meet and learn about many local and statewide community building organizations, The Center for Wisdom's Women (at wisdomswomen.org) and The Learning Disabilities Association of Maine (at ldame.org) will be well represented.

What a line up!!!