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Mountain Fresh Farmer’s Market

First Mountain Fresh Farmer’s  Market of 2013 What a wonderful morning in Oakland,MD. The sun was blazing and people were crowding the corner of Second St. and Alder St. while we sat in the Pocket Park right outside of Cornish

Posted in Buy Local, Community, Local Art, Local Events, Sustainable Art, Sustainable Food

Casey Eichfeld at ASCI

Interview with Casey Eichfeld at the Deep Creek 2014 Trials

Posted in Community, Local Events, Partners

Savage River Arts

Art and Creative Writing Workshops for Students – From Frostburg.edu article: Savage River Arts is a collaborative program of the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing, the Savage River Watershed Association (and the Frostburg Museum) to promote environmental literacy and foster young

Posted in Collaborate, Community, Education, Local Art, Local Events, Sustainable Art

Update on Junior

Now that winter is over and the weather is warmer, it is time to finish our mobile tiny house named, “Junior.” Rob and Sean are hard at work peeling, sanding, and staining the live edge siding. Stay tuned for more

Posted in Community, Sustainable Construction, Waldens

Creative Caption Contest

  We asked our Facebook friends to join in on poking fun at this candid shot captured last weekend at the Cove Run Stream Restoration site. The horse really liked Elliott, so we asked you to come up with a

Posted in Community, Sustainable Art

Solar and Wind Energy Workshop

Understanding Solar and Wind Energy Our friend Megan Bauer with Garrett County Community Action has teamed up with Garrett County’s leaders in Solar and Wind Technologies to host two workshops to share some knowledge about renewable resources to county residents. Thursday, May

Posted in Community, Education, Sustainable Construction

Recycled Art

Northern High School Students Make Art From Recycled Materials Recently we went to Northern High School in Garrett County MD to meet up with some students. They had some art on display made of recycled materials. Love the creativity!

Posted in Community, Education, Local Art, Uncategorized

Earth Day 2013

Earth Day with Southern Middle School Blue Moon Rising celebrated Earth Day by planting trees and ferns with students from Southern Middle School in Garrett County Maryland. These students earned service learning hours and contributed to making their school one

Posted in Community, Education, Partners

Live Edge for Junior

As some of you know, we are working on a mobile tiny home that will serve as our marketing cabin. The locally harvested, locally sawn live edge siding in in! This stack of lumber will become our beautiful facade. The wavy

Posted in Building Green, Buy Local, Community, Sustainable Construction

Collecting Maple Sap at Barnyard Farm

With the coming of spring (yeah, right) I began tapping trees at Barnyard Farm. Barnyard Farm is my personal residence on the southern end of Garrett County. As a member of the Blue Moon Rising team I make my land

Posted in Community, Education, Partners, Sustainable Food, Uncategorized