Thanks to the generous donation by Richard (Dick) Tessier MeANS has welcomed the new addition of our very own forge. Along with the grants and money saved up since 2017 we built our multi purpose barn, home to some of our students’ new favorite place, THE FORGE! For this article we interviewed the instructor, Tad… Read more »
Community is one of our core values here at MeANS. We’re always looking to build it any and every way we can. Toward that end, we have brought back the MeANS Coffee House where students, faculty, alumni, and our extended community come together to share poems, songs, instrumental performances, karaoke, and conversation. The next… Read more »
Harvest Festival 2022 is coming up on Oct. 14th, 3-5 p.m. While part of the focus is eating wood-fired pizza in an oven from Maine Grains (with ingredients grown and harvested on our campus); live music by Maine songwriter Mike Stackhouse; and lawn games galore (you know we love them!)—the real stars of the show… Read more »
MeANS is proud to be a part of rural living in Maine and showed it at the 2022 Common Ground Country Fair! Held Sept. 23-25 at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners (MOFGA) Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine, the Common Ground Fair featured 1,000-plus exhibitors and speakers emphasizing rural communities, sustainable living, local… Read more »
Two sets of Maine Academy of Natural Sciences (MeANS) graduates walked across the lawn on our campus in Hinckley, Maine, stepped under our timber frame pavilion, and were handed well-earned high school diplomas in late July. MeANS graduates were honored in a ceremony on Friday, July 29, and graduates of our Threshold program were honored… Read more »
A school is nothing without community, including students past, present and future, as well as parents, staff, supporters, partners and neighbors. All were made welcome at the Maine Academy of Natural Science’s (MeANS) Summer Celebration 2022 on Sunday, June 26. Visitors to our campus in Hinckley, Maine, were able to lounge around the property in… Read more »
William Doray joined the military straight out of high school and served 15 years in the military with his last duty station being in Alaska. When he was discharged, he returned to Maine and attended the University of Maine Farmington, graduating in 2018 with a Bachelor’s in History graduating Magna Cum Laude and minoring in Political Science and International & Global Studies. He then Attended the University of Maine graduating in 2019 with a Master of Arts in Teaching.
Solomon has been teaching at the MeANS since 2016, and has served in a variety of roles at the school. He graduated from the honors college at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2012 and earned his Master’s degree in Education there in 2013. Before teaching at MeANS, Solomon served in and then supervised an AmeriCorps program in Somerset and Franklin counties, and was a farm apprentice at 3 Level Farm in South China, Maine. When he is not teaching English, working with students on the One-Acre Farm, or fixing computers, he works alongside his neighbors at 3 Level and Dig Deep Farms, skis, writes and plays music, and otherwise lives the good life with his partner Danielle, child Clara, and dog Homer.