Students will learn about healthy meal prep and sensible shopping on a limited budget. Prepare the meal along with the chef, and then receive a free bag of groceries for you to make one of the recipes at home each week. Graduation certificate, recipe book and other freebies provided upon completion of the program. Limit: One person per household. Cooking Matters Maine is a program of the Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine.

Are you interested in learning how to use an abundant resource, sunlight, to benefit financially and fight climate change at the same time? Do you wish to learn about the Hi Tech solar water heaters, photo voltaic panels and solar hot air heating systems? In this seminar students will learn how and where to purchase solar equipment at wholesale prices. Participants will also learn where to get plans on how to build solar heated water troughs or bird baths that do not freeze in winter. If this sounds like what you are interested in, then this course is for you. Instructor Lee Zwicker has been living off-the-grid for 15 years and teaching solar energy classes for ten years.