Freight Shed news - Hot off the presses! July 2014

We've had some great articles in local newspapers recently and in case you missed them, here are two of the most recent!

Courtesy of The Coastal Journal

Courtesy of The Coastal Journal

Saturday, June 21st 2014 Bath Freight Shed 2nd Annual Community Dinner

2nd Annual Community Dinner @ the Bath Freight Shed  

Saturday | June 21st 

5:30 - 7 pm

Mark your calendar for a wonderful evening with a Silent Auction, music and great local food...

We look forward to sharing with you the progress that has been made and plans for the future. Please bring a local foods dish to share or a $10 donation. 

This summer the Freight Shed will be a hub of activity and we hope you'll be a part of it. Maine's First Ship boat-building activities will be in full swing, Full Moon Dinners are back and renovations continue!

We look forward to seeing you on the 21st!


Please RSVP by June 14th

For more information: 

Merry Chapin  @ 207-443-5669
Joan Detel @ 207-389-9162

Happenings @ the Freight Shed: May 3rd -- Bath Freight Shed Yard Sale, Mayfair 2014

Turn your attic treasures into materials to restore the Freight Shed!

This granite counter top is just one of the great things that will be on sale at the Bath Freight Shed Yard Sale this Saturday, May 3rd, 9 to 1pm.


Drop off your gently used items on Friday, May 2nd after 1:30

We'll be getting ready on Friday afternoon from 1:30 onwards and welcome volunteers on Saturday too!

Email Merry Chapin for information and to volunteer!

Earth Day 2014 Happenings @ the Freight Shed: Market Morning April 19, 2014

Earth Day is Tuesday, April 22^nd so during this Saturday's farmers market, we'll be sharing ways to "Green" our lifestyles, environment and community. Join us in the south end Community Room!

Bath Community Stenciling Blitz

Sunday, April 27 | 1 - 4 pm
Bath City Hall parking lot

Our alliance friends from the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) will be on hand during this Saturday's farmers market to sign folks up for the upcoming Bath Community Stenciling Blitz, next Sunday, April 27 @ 1 to 4 pm. 

What can we do to keep the Kennebec River, its tributaries, and our city’s sewer system in optimal shape?

Storm Drain Stenciling.

It's simple way to prevent this type of pollution. By stenciling a friendly “Keep It Clean -- Drains To River” message next to our city’s storm drains, we can let neighbors and visitors know that anything dumped and tossed in the street or on lawns can wind up in the nearby river.

Storm Drain Stenciling is a widely used and fun community-building activity for families, neighborhood groups, scout troops, service clubs, and local businesses. By participating you will become more aware of the link between our city’s landscape and waterways as well as leave behind a helpful reminder for others.

For more information about the Stenciling Blitz, visit www.kennebecestuary.org, call 442-8400 or email them here

Freight Shed Fourth and Final Full Moon Dinner – A blend of Greece & Italy!

A full moon once again was present at the Bath Freight Shed Alliance’s fourth Full Moon Dinner fundraiser.

Chef Tim O'Brien of Trattoria Athena in Brunswick provided a gathering of some fifty guests with a very memorable meal in an welcoming setting with the Freight Shed’s open sliding riverside doors bringing in light from the full moon.



The hors d’oeuvres were delicate small savoy cabbages stuffed with Arborio rice, whiting, monkfish, dill and lemon and mushroom crostini, made with crimini mushrooms, cipollini and goat cheese – both savory and delicious.

Chef O'Brien then followed with a tri-colored bean salad, combining yellow beans with red onion, garlic chips, cheese, arugula, heirloom tomato blended with an almond dressing.

These delectable harbingers led perfectly to the main courses – a meat lasagna with layers of fresh pasta, ricotta cheese, pork and leek soubise ‘besciamella’ and a vegetarian lasagna with layers of fresh pasta, roasted butternut and delicata squash, mascarpone and ricotta cheeses and leek sourbise ‘besciamella’.

Duca corvine/cabernet wine, Gritty’s IPA beer and Now You’re Cooking's sparkling water complimented the food delights.

A tart apple crisp with ouzo and whipped crème and savory coffee completed the highly satisfying offering.

In keeping with the Freight Shed policy of supporting local and healthy food, Chef O'Brien sourced food for the meal from: 

• Six River Farm: cabbage and cipollini
• Squire Tarbox Farm: dill and arugula
• Oyster Creek Mushroom Co.: mushrooms
• Sunset Acres: goat cheese
• Goranson’s Farm: heirloom tomato, squash, onion and garlic
• Lakin's Gorges Cheese: ricotta
• Gryffon Ridge pork
• Pleasant Pond Orchards: apples
• Big Barn Coffee: coffee

Music was provided by Married with Chitlins. Co-founder of the Freight Shed, Wiebke Theodore exhibited a series of her acrylic abstract paintings, many of which are of scenes at the Wooden Boat School, which will continued through the month.

A wonderful meal, great guests, and good fun, all in support of the Bath Freight Shed and its programs.

To view the entire photo album of the final Full Moon Dinner, please visit our Facebook Page here!

The Bath Freight Shed Alliance is a non profit organization whose mission includes preservation of the Bath Freight Shed as a community facility, working closely with joint tenant Maine First Ship to promote various programs involving preservation, food, health, the arts, education, local history and environmental sustainability.

An August Full Moon Dinner with Chef Jon Merry of Dragonfly Cove Farm, a wood oven and a very full moon!

The Bath Freight Shed Alliance continued its Full Moon Dinner fundraisers with Chef Jon Merry and Dragonfly Cove Farm (Joe Murray & Marge Kilkelly) on August 20th under a wonderful, rising ‘Full Moon’ over the Kennebec at the Freight Shed. Some sixty guests and volunteers enjoyed an eclectic Iberian “tapas” meal of varying delights largely prepared on a huge on-site wood burning oven donated for the event by Bennett Collins of Harvest Moon Pizza.

The Second Full Moon Dinner at the Freight Shed – Great food and a very full moon!

Full Buck Moon over the Kennebec
July 22, 2013

The Bath Freight Shed Alliance held its second Full Moon Dinner fundraiser under a very visible and brightly shining "Full Buck Moon" last Saturday, July 22nd. With all the sliding doors open and the moon rising over the Kennebec, some 50 guests enjoyed an exciting meal prepared by Chef Ray Franklyn of Solo Bistro of Bath. Will and Pia Nielson, owners of Solo Bistro, provided the food and drink with support from vendors at the Bath Farmers Market.

Full Moon Art Show featuring the evocative photography of Johannah Harkness.

Old Saw in Freight Shed
Johannah Harkness

The Bath Freight Shed Alliance invites you to join them on August 16 from 6 to 7 PM to open an exhibit of the evocative photography of Johannah Harkness. The show will be open Saturday 8/17 from 9 to 12 PM.

My Trip Abroad
Johannah Harkness

Johannah has been enthralled since the age of six with the magic of the camera image and the power of creation.. Her work ranges from literal portraits to narrative and allegorical works. Her recent work includes several images of the Freight Shed , which she first visited last summer. "I was instantly drawn to the type of eerily beautiful light there that often seeps into and haunts venerable spaces.…out of this came the inspiration for work that will be featured during the August Full Moon Dinner," says Harkness. A private showing will be part of the celebration at the Dinner on August 20 (the dinner is sold out).

A portion of the proceeds from the show will be donated to the Freight Shed.

Freight Shed opening Full Moon Dinner fundraiser a howling success!

For the opening of its Full Moon Dinners, the Bath Freight Shed Alliance kicked off its ‘Good Food’ summer season with a four course meal prepared by Chef Aaron Park of Henry & Marty’s of Brunswick on Sunday, June 23^rd at the Freight Shed. Some fifty guests joined in the event and despite the furtiveness of the ‘full moon’, Chef Park’s offerings were truly exceptional.

The hors d’oeuvres plate featured a smooth but crunchy chicken liver pate, sharp goat chorizo and a wonderful vegetable pate accompanied by pickled spring onions, chèvre and a delicious organic carrot and beet blend with caramelized spring onions and cashews. A perfect harbinger of good things to follow!

After a plated salad with farmers’ market greens, fresh mozzarella, hakeuri turnips, and  kohlrabi enhanced by a smooth fresh herb vinaigrette, Chef Park provide an entrée of rhubarb maple roasted chicken, a slow roasted brisket, chunky but smooth, balanced with a rhubarb BBQ sauce, Heiwa tofu, Jacob’s Cattle Bean cassoulet, la ratte potatoes and chanterelle mushrooms with sugar snap peas in a honey glaze. The entrée  was absolutely delicious with varying textures, colors and tastes.

A strawberry rhubarb desert with a granola crisp with yogurt whipped cream topping followed by coffee completed a highly varied yet very satisfying meal.

A selection of three mead wines provided by Rob Nicholl of Fiddler’s Reach, served Merrymeeting with the hors d’oeuvres, a light crisp wine from wildflowers and wild raspberry blossoms; accompanying the entrée was a dry red mead wine Wild Blue, a blend of dry blueberries and blueberry blossom honey and lastly with desert, Soft Southerly, made from Leatherwood flower honey, distinguished by its cinnamon spiciness.

Chef Aaron Park selecting the ingredients for the feast!

Chef Park sourced most of the food from local farms and food producers, most of whom participate in the Bath Farmer’s Market at the Freight Shed.

Local artist Maina Handmaker exhibited her work in the Freight Shed Community Room, with a number of items being sold and the proceeds shared with the Freight Shed and Maina.

Maina Handmaker exhibiting one of her triptychs

Peter Alexander and Johanna Harkness provided wonderful music in keeping with the event.

Peter Alexander and Johanna Harkness 

The reviews received included:

“Perfect in every way!”

“Amazing ambiance,  presentation and food!”

“Truly delectable!”

 

“A fascinating palette of tastes, textures and wines”

“A lovely event!”

“Count it as a great success!” 

-- all despite the moon making only a fleeting appearance, seen by few at the event. Focus had instead turned to good food, good drink and good company, all for a good cause!

Thank you Chef Aaron Park and everyone that pitched in for a great Full Moon Summer Celebration Kick Off!

Coming up at the Freight Shed: Spring & Summer Events

Capital to the Coast Exploratory Bike Ride

Sat. 5/25/13: 50 degrees and rainy are not the conditions we want to expose you to this great trail. Keep in touch and KELT will find a date to try this ride again.

 Saturday, May 25th, 2013
Noon - 6PM

38 miles - Bath to Gardiner, Maine

The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT), one of our local alliance organizations, is assisting towns from Bath to Gardiner in developing a trail dedicated to active transportation -- the proposed Capital to the Coast Trail. 


The group will start at the Freight Shed on Commercial Street in Bath at noon (fuel up at the Bath Farmer’s Market next door at Waterfront Park) and end in Gardiner in time to join the 5:30 bike parade at their Ride into Summer celebration.

The Bath Freight Shed together with KELT invite you and other local bike/pedestrian advocates to join an exploratory group ride of the proposed Capital to the Coast Trail (38 miles) on Saturday, May 25th, Noon - 6pm.

Purpose:

This self-supported bicycle ride will explore the interim route of two proposed long-distance trails. Participants will enjoy scenic views of the rivers that flow into Merrymeeting Bay, take photos for promotion and help build energy for trail development. Your feedback on the positive and challenging aspects of the route will help us design the best trail possible!

Route:

A group ride on paved roads from Bath to Gardiner with frequent rest & regroup stops. Group pace ~10-12 mph, the route is mostly flat with hills in the final section.

Participants:

For organizers, supporters and those curious about the proposed Androscoggin to the Kennebec Trail (Bath to Brunswick) and Merrymeeting Trail (Topsham to Gardiner). Ride is limited to 25 participants.

Cost:

Free! Anticipate spending ~ $20 on snacks at local businesses to show trail communities that cyclists are an economic boost.

Registration is required by May 17, and we are capping the ride at 25 participants.

Email Alicia Hepburn, KELT Project Director, or call at 207-442-8400 for more details, registration and carpooling information.

Download the KELT Capital to the Coast Exploratory Bike Ride poster here!

News from the Bath Freight Shed: Coming up in April

Dear Freight Shed Alliance Friends, 

As we wrap up our first winter season of the Bath Farmers Market I wanted to call your attention to April's market mornings and would like to encourage everyone to help get the word out and be involved. These mornings are such a great time to strike up the conversations that get people to become part of the BFSA. 

On March 15th, Andrew Deci gave a tour of the Freight Shed to a group from the Maine Downtown Institute Conference - it was safe to say that they left energized to tackle what may seem like impossibly challenging projects in their own down towns based on what they saw. It is daunting at times but with this team that is growing it is very encouraging!

Mark your Calendars!

Our next meeting BFSA will be on April 10th at noon in the Freight Shed. It's an important meeting as we look toward summer projects and events at the Freight Shed.

For the time being our Hands On Fridays have been put on hold as we regroup. With warmer weather promised we look forward to organizing a variety of work groups to suit different schedules.


Best,
Wiebke

This Week at the Bath Freight Shed: 4-H Club from the Morris Farm. Saturday, March 2nd.

While you're stocking up on your favorite local goods at the Freight Shed this Saturday, stroll down to the Community Room on the south end. Our community guests this week are the 4-H Club from Morris Farm and Kim Andersson, the Morris Farm Administrator. They 4-Hers will be sharing with us information and news of their latest projects.

The Morris Farm Trust promotes the values of sustainable agriculture and stewardship of the earth through education, demonstration and community involvement.

4-H Club at the Morris Farm

Clover Buds (Youth 5-8 Years Old)

Clover Bud is a term used to identify 4-H members who are 5 through 8 years old. Any Maine youth between the 4-H ages of 5 and 8 years old may join the 4-H program.

Participation, safety, personal development, learning, and fun in a cooperative, non-competitive setting are the priorities of the Clover Bud program.

Clover Buds experience programs that are developmentally appropriate, activity-oriented, involve cooperative learning, and are focused on learning activity skills and life skills through a wide variety of topic areas.

Participation in activities is available at the club, county, and state level.

4-Hers (Youth 9-18Years Old)

4-H offers many hands-on learning opportunities that can produce a positive impact in your community. 4-Hers may participate in projects ranging from photography to robotics to animal science.

Youth and adults work together to create a safe educational environment that promotes learning life skills. 4-H activities are available at the club, county, state, and national level.

https://sites.google.com/site/morrisfarmtrust/morris-farm-4h-club
http://uniquemainefarms.com/uniquemainefarms.com/4-H_Morris_Farm.html

4-H involves 

·        nearly 30,000 Maine youth

·        some 6 million young people nationwide

·        thousands of Maine volunteers

·        hundreds of schools