Get ready to join us for our annual autumn public event -- Fall Fun Farm Day.  This family-friendly event runs from 10am to 4pm Saturday, October 10 (rain date: Sunday October 11).  Admission is $2 for children, $5 for adults, and includes games, music, hands-on activities, scarecrow making, arts & crafts, pumpkin painting (bring yours home!), nature walks, visits with farm animals, and much, much more!  Hayrides are also available for an added fee, and refreshments will be available for purchase.

Free parking is available in the field across from the Farmhouse.  See you there!

On Saturday, August 22 at 6pm, jazz pianist Tony DeBlois will be coming to the Hilton-Winn Farm for a repeat performance. Tickets: $20.  Tony is a musical savant who is blind and has autism; he has played in concerts world-wide and knows over 8000 songs from memory. Please join us for this truly inspirational event.  Refreshments will be available for sale before the concert and during intermission. Proceeds go to the Youth Enrichment Center at Hilton-Winn Farm. Directions. Free parking available in the field across the road from the Farm House. For more info or to reserve tickets: 207-361-1385.

Nancy picked up over 100 heirloom apple trees from FEDCO this week, and an amazing crew of volunteers (including our special partners Club Chameleon) is coming to help plant them all day Saturday, May 2nd.  A special shout-out to the 1772 Foundation, based in Connecticut, for funding our Project FAAHM (Facilitating Access to the Agricultural Heritage of Maine).  This apple orchard, along with a section of pear trees and blueberry bushes to be planted on Saturday as well, will enhance our ability to engage youth in learning about our ongoing human connection to the land for generations to come.

If you'd like to join in and volunteer, call the Farm at 207-361-1385 and leave your name and phone number so we can contact you and assign you to a specific volunteer slot that's most appropriate for you!
See you on the Farm!

Staff, volunteers, and friends of the Youth Enrichment Center are gearing up for the 7th annual fundraiser auction at the Claddagh Restaurant & Pub in Lawrence on Saturday April 4 at 6:30 pm.  The fun-filled evening will include delicious hors d'oeuvres and buffet dinner, silent and live auctions, raffles, music and dancing. Individuals and businesses from Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts have donated an incredible array of goods and services for the silent and live auctions, so don't miss this great event that supports a terrific organization for kids! Advance tickets can be purchased ($40 per person; or $375 for a table for 10) by sending a check with your name, address, telephone number and email address to: Youth Enrichment Center at Hilton-Winn Farm, P.O. Box 574, Ogunquit, ME 03907.  See you there!!

The Youth Enrichment Center has received 20 inaugural donations to sponsor apple trees in our soon-to-be-planted heirloom orchard.  The teaching orchard will be part of our initiative to Facilitate Access to the Agricultural Heritage of Maine -- Project FAAHM -- which is generously sponsored by a grant from the 1772 Foundation.  Project FAAHM will significantly enhance our ability to engage youth in learning about our ongoing human connection to the land, through the development of
1.    outdoor exhibit stations that will enable self-guided and instructor-led walking tours of the Hilton-Winn Farm property;
2.    heirloom and native plant orchards and gardens for teaching, including an apple orchard and a section of wild blueberry bushes; and
3.    handicap-accessible, environmentally-friendly public restrooms.

If you would like to help provide matching funds for our 1772 Foundation grant by sponsoring an apple tree, you can send a tax-deductible donation of $100 to our Development Office at 189 Ogunquit Road, Cape Neddick, ME 03902

This past October, Maine state legislator Dawn Hill from York presented Executive Director Nancy Breen with a "Legislative Sentiment."  This special honor recognized Breen and the Youth Enrichment Center for the organization's contributions to community life in Southern Maine.