GROWING LITERACY: Bringing Nature Home to Your Garden with Maine Audubon

Growing Literacy: 2025 Winter Garden Workshop Series

Please join us for our annual Winter Garden Workshop series: Growing Literacy. This year we are proud to host five workshops through collaboration with Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, Growing to Give and Curtis Memorial Library. Bring your curiosity, questions, and join us!

Growing Literacy: Bringing Nature Home to Your Garden

Join Andrew Tufts, Maine Audubon‘s “Bringing Nature Home” Manager, to learn about how you can increase your garden’s biodiversity and climate impact. What should you plant? What should you not weed? How do you maintain what you care about and manage growth? Learn how your small space of the outdoors can meet your needs and help those of our planet.

Andrew Tufts, the Bringing Nature Home Manager at Maine Audubon, is dedicated to restoring and rebuilding Maine’s natural biodiversity by growing, distributing and planting the native wildflowers, shrubs, and trees that support the widest array of wildlife. Hailing from Topsham, Maine, Andrew’s upbringing instilled in him a deep appreciation for the outdoors. With a background in landscape architecture, he has diverse experience, from owning a gardening business to working in city planning and landscape design.

Outside of work, Andrew enjoys travel, cycling and outdoor activities. Andrew currently resides in Portland, Maine, with his wife Anna and daughter Annika.

The Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust (BTLT) conserves and stewards vital natural areas, supports a vibrant food system, and connects people with the natural world through inclusive education and recreation programs in the Brunswick region. Our goal is to protect our natural resources, cultivate care for the natural world, and in so doing foster resilient connected communities for now and for generations to come.

Curtis Memorial Library is a public library of Brunswick and Harpswell, Maine. Curtis Memorial Library strives to enrich the quality of life in this region by building community, advocating for reading, championing social justice and digital equity, and promoting sustainability.

Growing to Give grows organic produce to support those in the community struggling with food insecurity while modeling, educating, and advocating for climate-friendly farming practices. Working with a robust network of volunteers and community partners, Growing to Give has grown and donated over 80,000 lbs of produce since its inception in 2017.

For more information, visit the Curtis Memorial Library website.

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