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Maine Local Living School: A Center for Place-Based Learning

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Covid 19 Statement: Until further notice all classes will be held masked, outdoors, practicing social distancing guidelines. Food will be served in a Covid safe manner.

Maine Local Living School is a working homestead and education center. Founded in 2008 (as Koviashuvik Local Living School) our programs emphasize building regenerative relationships with the earth and each other, learning practical skills for wise living, and cultivating capacities for observation, stillness and gratitude. We do these through the Family Sustainability Stay, The Living-in-Maine Semester, School Programs and Community Programs. Participants carve, weave, wild-gather, cultivate, compost, harvest, sew, plant, thresh, winnow and construct a life that honors the limits and abundances of our places. Local Living is a process of coming to know the earth as home. For us, coming home has meant coming alive. We welcome you to join!

We recognize and give thanks for this place we call home, which is the land of the Abanaki people from the Wabanaki Confederacy.

“First we must fall in love. Then we can make the world over.”

- N.F.S. Grundtvig

Programs offered by Maine Local Living:

Apprenticeships

Living-in-Maine Semester

Day-long School Programs

Overnight School Programs

Family Sustainability Stay

Community Programs

On Justice: Maine Local Living recognizes that all environmental crises are rooted in the exploitation of people. We cannot disentangle the climate crisis from the social justice crises. For this reason, all education for living wisely and equitably is activism for the road ahead. This is about anchoring into our unique places and beginning the powerful work of Re-inhabitation. Re-inhabitation means rebuilding local knowledge and skills, acknowledging ways of knowing that have been marginalized through colonization, and rebuilding cultures that recognize the earth and each other as sacred gifts.

"In the end the experience was so much more amazing and releasing than I could have imagined. Mulberry jam, drum making, carrying water, helping to harvest and cook, give and receive...Words fail to describe how much we enjoyed and learned!"

~2019 Family Stay Participant