Waldo County Bounty

05/06/2026

We'll be at the County Garden again this Tuesday! Please come by and help us build upon all the amazing 💪🌱🔥 things we accomplished last week.

When: Tuesday, June 9th, 9-12 (rain or shine)
What to bring: Water, sunscreen/hat, closed toed shoes, hand trowel, and a friend!
Where: 685 Swan Lake Ave, Swanville (Emergency Management Agency) is a good landmark for GPS, if you are using it. There's ample parking, but we will be working behind the EMA office.

Questions? Reach out to [email protected]! Hope to see you there.

03/06/2026

What a fantastic program to help more people connect with locally grown food! If you are a Maine resident over 60 and meet the income guidelines listed below, you can get $50 worth of locally grown veggies for free at the Belfast Farmers' Market (among others) through the Maine Senior FarmShare program. Don't miss this opportunity – benefitting both farmers and older Maine residents! Learn more here https://mainefarmersmarkets.org/market-wide-maine-senior-farmshare/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSNCwhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFUeFIxRThVNlVHSGE3czhUc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmrHqE87kygiQgjsl53nQgwRXKX2iEwzIwSoiaaxcUSrOr7LuQSQ7pVx7oDd_aem_veIcqJWT3lFmDrFeG9KT3A

02/06/2026

The Give & Take season began early this year, and free produce stands are already up and running in Monroe, Waldo, Lincolnville Center, Swanville, Belfast (UU Church location), Stockton Springs, Belmont, Brooks, Northport, and Frankfort. Please use these stands to fill your tables with locally grown produce, and keep on the lookout for vegetable seedlings coming soon. You do not have to give anything to take the delicious and healthy fruits and veggies. Find locations, hours, and more about the Give & Take program here (we will update the full list of 2026 locations soon; for now, only the stands listed above are confirmed open): https://waldocountybounty.org/give-and-take-tables

29/05/2026

It is such an exciting time of year at the County Garden! We have a ton of gorgeous seedlings from Villageside Farm that are just waiting to go in the ground, and we need your help to get them planted.

When: Tuesday, June 2nd, 9-12 (rain or shine)
What to bring: Water, sunscreen/hat, closed toed shoes, hand trowel, and a friend!
Where: 685 Swan Lake Ave, Swanville (Emergency Management Agency) is a good landmark for GPS, if you are using it. There's ample parking, but we will be working behind the EMA office.

Thank you to the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Waldo County for being an amazing partner as part of this 🌱🥕🫛🍉 effort!

Questions? Reach out to [email protected]! Hope to see you there.

22/05/2026

Calling volunteers to lend us a hand at our garden plot at the County Garden in Swanville this Tuesday, May 26th, from 9am-noon! Over at the County Community Garden, we have beds prepped and fertilized, plastic laid, and bales of straw in place. We need help spreading and fluffing the straw in the pathways, laying some landscape fabric, and possibly even potting up some seedlings, if we have enough people.

The weather looks much nicer than last week for being outdoors - sunny and low 70's. If you can make it, please join us! You can ind us behind the EMA office and park on either side of the building.

Where: 685 Swan Lake Ave. Swanville, ME (Waldo EMA)
When: Tuesday May 26, 9-12(ish)
What to bring: Mallets would be handy again as well as a measuring tape. Also bring a hat or sunscreen, water, closed toed shoes. Maybe a flat rake for spreading straw.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to reach out to [email protected]. Hope to see you there!

18/05/2026

Thank you to WABI TV5 for shining a light on our partnership with the JACKSON FOOD PANTRY INFO and other local food pantries to help more people access local produce and grown more of their own food. After the tragedy of the Robbins Lumber fire, positive stories like these remind us that we live in a community of neighbors who look out for one another here in Waldo County.

The Jackson Food Pantry operates out of the Jackson Community Center with help from 35 volunteers who show up regardless of weather conditions.

15/05/2026

These gorgeous organic seedlings are headed to food pantries and soup kitchens across Waldo County! This year, the WCB Seedling-to-Pantry program bought 294 flats of popular vegetable seedlings from Villageside Farm to distribute to food pantry clients, empowering more people to grow more of their own food for themselves and their neighbors. Like last year, the seedling selection is based on surveys from local food pantries, ensuring their clients get the varieties they want. Thank you to Villageside and all of the volunteers helping out with this effort!

14/05/2026

Did you catch our plug for the WCB benefit concert on Around Town with Amy Brown on Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM today? Listen to it here https://archives.weru.org/around-town/2026/05/around-town-5-14-26-local-news-culture-and-events/

Remember when we said WCB would be featured on the Common Ground Radio Show? Well that is really 🫛🍅🌶️🔥happening today at 4pm on WERU. Holli Cederholm interviews WCB cofounder Mattie Bamman and University of Maine Cooperative Extension horticulturalist Katherine Garland on the topic of gardening for food security. We cover the WCB Give & Take program and ways gardeners can contribute to local hunger relief work! https://weru.org/

13/05/2026

Please join us in welcoming our new Program Manager, Katie Kleinle! Katie will serve as WCB's boots-on-the-ground, coordinating our amazing crew of volunteers and managing the Give & Take, Gleaning, Seedling-to-Pantry, and Farm-to-Pantry programs. Katie joins Waldo County Bounty after several years spent building a career across agriculture, including work in plant breeding, Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), and dairy farming. Her experience in both R+D and production agriculture, combined with several years volunteering in the food-justice space, have given her a passion for optimizing systems of agriculture and food distribution. A Waldo County resident since moving here from Ireland last year, Katie is excited to give back to her community as Programs Manager for Waldo County Bounty!

We are so excited to have Katie join our team - you'll see her out in the field!

08/05/2026

Help us pack the dance floor at next week's benefit concert, featuring and hosted by in Searsport. The Sugar Snaps will keep the grooves coming and Hey Sailor will serve delicious globally inspired food and drink, from Korean fried chicken wings to tacos, burgers, and pizza, donating 10% of all sales to WCB. Buy your tickets in advance today using the link in our bio and let's help more people access locally grown food in Waldo County!