What's Happening
Summer 2018 First Work A Success!
During the hot summer months of June, July and August of 2018, twenty middle and high school students completed a job experience at Herring Gut Learning Center in our First Work Program. First Work is just what it says: experience in a first (or sometimes second) year job. Students wanting to participate in this program completed...
Herring Gut Learning Center Wins Commissioner's Award
We are pleased to announce that Herring Gut Learning Center has received the Commissioner's Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence by the Commissioner of the State of Maine Department of Agriculture, Walt Whitcomb. (Pictured below) Herring Gut is being recognized for exemplary aquaculture and marine science hands-on education. We are both very...
"First Work" Students Participate In Local Farmers Market
First Workers proudly display their assorted vegetables and herbs that they grew using aquaponics at Herring Gut Learning Center! Twenty local students participated in this year's "First Work" program at Herring Gut Learning Center.
Featured Programs
Sign up for Summer Professional Development!
Our Introduction to Aquaponics Workshop includes: 2.5 days of hands-on teacher training in aquaponics using Herring Gut's small-scale commercial aquaponics greenhouse and hatchery as your laboratory in beautiful Port Clyde, Maine!
Herring Gut Learning Center
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A documentary video produced by Colby College students
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