Womens for Healthy Rural Living

IEM: We hosted two family-friendly garden workshops. We planted container gardens with the Rayita Del Sol Daycare. We led three tours of the Incredible Edible Milbridge Gardens. We collaborated with the Milbridge Elementary School (MES) PreK and Kindergarten classes on how to plant pumpkins. We taught MES 3rd grade how to lasagna garden suppress weeds while encouraging worms and decomposers to come to the surface. Resumed all-school planting day with Milbridge Elementary School. Students planted green beans and potatoes at the Red Barn Motel. Hosted two Give Back days, one at Milbridge Commons Wellness Park and one at the Red Barn Motel. We partnered with Bowdoin Upward Bound for the Milbridge Commons event. We had two more informal volunteer days at Milbridge Commons. Distribution of WHRLs bilingual vegetable cookbook The Humble Veggie through WIC, Maine Families, Milbridge Medical Center, Weald Bethel Food Pantry, and DETOP We hosted two family-friendly garden workshops. We planted container gardens with the Rayita Del Sol Daycare. We led three tours of the Incredible Edible Milbridge Gardens. We collaborated with the Milbridge Elementary School (MES) PreK and Kindergarten classes on how to plant pumpkins. We taught MES 3rd grade how to lasagna garden suppress weeds while encouraging worms and decomposers to come to the surface. Resumed all-school planting day with Milbridge Elementary School. Students planted green beans and potatoes at the Red Barn Motel. Hosted two Give Back days, one at Milbridge Commons Wellness Park and one at the Red Barn Motel. We partnered with Bowdoin Upward Bound for the Milbridge Commons event. We had two more informal volunteer days at Milbridge Commons. Distribution of WHRLs bilingual vegetable cookbook The Humble Veggie through WIC, Maine Families, Milbridge Medical Center, Weald Bethel Food Pantry, and DETOP Grew 8,000 lbx of free pick-your-own veggies for the community Wymans Wildly Better Days brought in over 140 volunteers.

OWL: We featured Outdoor Women Lead hikes from January November with an overall attendance of 98 women. We ran a Compass Course. Twelve campers attended our Owlette Summer Camp for teens. 100% were from Washington County. We established one new community partnership with Maine Island Trail Association.

OTHER PROGRAMS: We hosted six book group sessions on the theme: Maine Women: Finding Our Strength with 52 participants overall. The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program meets with participants twice monthly in our Thankful Room. We hosted a 10-session dance program for the community. We hosted two different retirement planning seminars. We hosted Womens Business Center Info Sessions. We hosted AARPs TaxAid Program We hosted weekly Yoga with Geri. We raise $2160 in our diaper drive for the Weald Bethel Food Pantry for distribution. 7 participants hiked Mt Katahdin to raise funds for the Elaine Hill Memorial Nursing Scholarship We awarded one $2,5000 Elaine Hill Memorial Nursing Scholarship. Bone Builders, an osteoporosis prevention exercise program, ran all year at full capacity. We continue our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work with monthly meetings and sent five board members to the REI training.