March 13, 2025
Based out of MCHT’s Downeast Field Office in Whiting, Cathy Lookabaugh works as MCHT’s Community Outreach Manager for Washington County. Before starting this position in 2024, Cathy worked for about five years as the Education and Outreach Director with the Downeast Coastal Conservancy in Machias. Can you please describe your position? What does it mean […]
August 26, 2024
By Cathy Lookabaugh, MCHT’s Washington County Community Outreach Manager What makes a landscape? Is it the wind of a river, the wildlife that calls it home, or the sometimes-unseen connections between water, soil, and life? This August, a group of curious young explorers set out to find the answers at Watershed Camp, hosted by Maine […]
February 29, 2024
February 2024 – The Mills administration recently announced Sears Island as the preferred location for an offshore wind hub to facilitate deepwater ocean wind energy development in the Gulf of Maine. Decades ago, Sears Island was acquired by the Maine Department of Transportation to support marine transportation as part of the state’s three-port strategy. In […]
March 13, 2023
Updated: April 2025 A major contributor to climate change is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thankfully, trees, plants, and soils can draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and respirate out oxygen. (That’s one of the many reasons why we love them so much!) As farmers, we’re particularly focused on regenerative agriculture, and making our […]
October 25, 2022
By, Renee Duncan, Stone Barn Farm Steward & Outreach Manager, MDI Earlier in 2022, Maine Coast Heritage Trust welcomed two dedicated outreach specialists to the Stewardship Department who will be leading outings, managing MCHT programs, and partnering with other organizations to connect people to the land. Welcome, Renee (and Maggie)! Will you share a little […]
October 10, 2022
By Zhenya Mikha, Teen Ag Crew Alum Zhenya Mikha started participating in Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s Teen Ag Program at Erickson Fields Preserve in Rockport in the summer of 2020, became a Leader in the program in 2021 and in the spring of 2022. She plans to attend college in Maine and study ecology and psychology. What […]
October 10, 2022
A local school bus pulls up to Aldermere Farm, hisses to a stop, and a handful of kids race down to the barnyard. These kids know: if they see Heidi Baker, general manager, waving her hands, putting a finger to her lips, and pointing to a ladder, it’s going to be a special day. One […]
December 4, 2021
If you’re curious to know what four-and-a-half acres can do for a community, go to Milbridge, Maine. In the center of town at the water’s edge, there’s a place called the Milbridge Commons Wellness Park where, on a recent warm October day, a father and his young daughters flew a kite; threestudents lay in the grass pouring […]
