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Sarah moved to Maine in 2008 and remained in the early childhood special education and mental health field for ten years, obtaining her teaching certificate, but always keeping a foot in conservation through volunteering for the local farmers market, exploring the woods, growing her family’s vegetables and helping on friends farms.
Sarah has experience developing curriculum and programming along with networking and outreach. Her business skills peaked when she had an opportunity to start her own business that focused on recycled art and opened a studio where the community and children could join her in environmental-art based exploration in Dover-Foxcroft.
Her love for community, education and conservation aligned when she began working for PCSWCD. Since then, Sarah has developed skills in land management while maintaining the almost 400 acres of public lands owned by the District and becoming a woman woodlot owner in 2020. Sarah, her husband and daughter manage a 74 acre tree farm in Sangerville with an off-grid tiny home. There, they have goats for invasive weed management, an active forest management plan, recreational trails and an organic garden.
Sarah’s focus at PCSWCD is to offer diverse educational programming in forestry and agriculture, maintaining the public lands for the community to enjoy while demonstrating best management practices for forestry, climate change adaptations and mitigation, stream connectivity and restoration for aquatic wildlife.
Throughout my college years, I worked as a seasonal employee for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in their overboard discharge division. I did field inspections and covered the entire coast of Maine. After I graduated college, I wrapped up one more season with the DEP and then was hired in October 2006 by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association as their administrative assistant. By 2008, I worked as the Database Manager and Membership and Development Assistant and learned so much about organizational development. My years at MOFGA, my schooling and my childhood at my grandfathers farm sparked my love for helping farmers and local agriculture. I realized that what I truly wanted to do with my life was help people, especially farmers.
My entire 8 year career at MOFGA, I commuted from Piscataquis County. My husband and I purchased our first home in Sebec in 2009. We felt so at home here, surrounded by wonderful people and beautiful scenery. Finally, months before having our first daughter, I took a chance and applied to the position at the District. I was offered the position and to this day, 8 years later, I am so grateful to have landed here.
Over the 8 years with the District, I have learned SO MUCH about natural resource conservation, forestry, ecology, soils, sustainable agriculture and more. My love for agriculture is now equally matched by a fascination and passion for sustainable forestry. I have met and worked with incredible people and am grateful to be living and working in Piscataquis County.
My husband, myself and our two daughters live in Dover-Foxcroft. We enjoy the outdoors and love hiking, snowshoeing, fishing and hunting in this beautiful area of Maine. We have two vizslas (pointers) and our favorite time of year is bird hunting season.
I love learning alongside all of you and bringing together stellar programming to help connect people with information to help us all conserve and sustainably use our natural resources. Reach out to me, I would love to work with you!
I have always had a strong love of the Maine outdoors and grew up snowshoeing, hiking, studying and watching wildlife. Most of my adult working life has involved being engaged in Maine agriculture, either directly by working on a dairy farm, raising my own beef and vegetables or indirectly through work in the Maine Harness Racing industry as both an associate judge and longtime employee of United Tote. Additionally, I have engaged in small woodlot management and trail building either on my own land or on land my family owns.
I am extremely excited to be working for the Piscataquis Soil and water Conservation District and could not be happier to have the opportunity to work and learn from the knowledgeable team here. I look forward to working alongside landowners and partners to free up stream miles for aquatic organism passage.
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and town water supplies. In Boston, Kent worked in commercial construction as a contract manager
and site building superintendent on an array of office spaces, theaters and museums and outdoor areas for the public. Clients included the New England Aquarium, Peabody Essex Museum and the National Park Service. Kent is presently retired with his wife on a large woodlot in Medford, Maine. He spends his day engaged in forest improvements, mushroom cultivation and maple syrup production.