Bowsprit Mentors

  Beetree farm and ​woodsong dairy

Operating BeeTree Farm at UAC,
​Bowsprit founders, Graziella Cervi
and Peter Brady, will mentor farming in vegetable production using biodynamic practices, growing field crops and fruit.

Sunniva Brady runs her own goat dairy, WoodSong Farm, and produces ​a
range of delicious dairy products.

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Peter Brady is also a Maine-licensed     
arborist who has been serving the
mid-coast Maine area for the past
eight years.
Currently, as forest manager at the farm,
and as part of our spring program, Peter introduces participants to the way we
understand and manage our forest land.
We are currently seeking a long-term
​resident forest manager to join the
​farm project.

Honeybee-Lightroot sanctuary

Through landscape conservation plantings, establishing a protected apiary, and holding educational events,
​the Sanctuary will build resilient biomes. Farmer Barbara Booth's vision will
strengthen our entire farming community.

Steve murdock & unity forge

Steve Murdock grew up on a farm in Unity, Maine creating with whatever was at hand, but with a special interest in metal.
He left to study Art in upstate New York
where metal soon became his medium of choice. Steve received his Bachelor of
Fine Arts from Ithaca College.
​For many years, Steve taught Blacksmithing at Colby College’s Colby-Hume Center in Sidney, Maine for their January Program.
Steve and his wife, Chia, own and operate Unity Forge.

Tornado metals

B'anna Federico and Nate Smith have combined their blacksmithing and welding experience to producing large-scale sculpture. They look forward to sharing their down-at-home skills, and exciting wizardry, with Bowsprit youth,
​as guest mentors 'from away'.

joe hesse - felted rugs

Jo Hesse makes area rugs and sculptures
using preindustrial felt-making methods
that she learned in Turkey from the UNESCO honored felt-maker, Master Mehmet Girgiç. 
Jo's rugs are firmly felted and functional,
ranging from a quarter to half an inch thick.
Jo’s commitment to traditional fabrication
is juxtaposed with a playful, modern style and a raw, decisive approach to composition.
She brings to her craft a precision attained
from years living in the south of Germany,
where she studied​ textile design, and an aesthetic sense developed at the Freie Hochschule, Stuttgart.
​In 2018 she and her father, Kent
Hesse, established The Ram & The Worm, a Northampton MA-based boutique rug brand.

louis pontillo - tai chi

Louis Pontillo holds a B.S. in Professional Health Sciences and an M.S. in Oriental Medicine. He has been teaching mind/body exercises for over thirty years through yoga, qigong, and taijiquan. A certified instructor in QiGong, TaiJiQuan, and Kung Fu, and adjunct faculty at the Downeast School of Massage, Louis also coaches wrestling for kids, K-8, in the RSU3 community, Waldo Co, Maine, where he lives with his wife and four children. Louis sees "the value of teaching young people meditation and mindful exercise. They are tools that too few possess and can be used as a coping mechanism for all kinds of emotional and physical issues that may arise in one's life".

John sherman - woodworker

Pia Walker - potter