Events for Apr 10, 2025 - Aug 14, 2025

Join Mark Israel of Query Mill Farm in North Potomac, and Jennifer Freeman of Peas and Peace Farm in Poolesville on April 22 at 7 pm when they discuss their second careers in small scale farming in the MoCo Ag Reserve. Hear all about the areas’ growing small scale farm movement and its innovative response to local food insecurity during the pandemic.  Mark Israel began farming Query Mill Farm nearly forty years ago during his career solving urban problems with the [...]

Join us on Friday, April 23rd at 10:30 am at White's Ferry parking lot for what may be our last C&O Popup Walk until Fall! We will be walking about two miles up the towpath and then back to White's Ferry. Enjoy the sights and sounds of nature including birds, turtles, trees, wildflowers and anything else nature has to offer us that day. When the walk is over, you are invited to relax and lunch at picnic tables along the riverbank. Pack your own lunch or order something tasty from the [...]

Rande Davis will entertain us with a history of the many and varied celebrations held in Poolesville over more than a century. Zoom in to hear what the Montgomery County Fair, a Chautauqua and two 150th Anniversaries have to do with Poolesville? Join Rande as he acquaints us with some of these joyous times in Poolesville’s history.  Rande is a 40-year resident of Poolesville. He is a former publishing executive with Time Warner in New York City, owner of RSD Marketing, a publishing firm, and is the co-publisher and [...]

 Denali National Park and Reserve has one of the most iconic mountains and is among the most complex protected areas in the world. Join recent Denali Superintendent and current Poolesville resident Tom Medema for an exploration of the unique history, resources, and management challenges of Alaska’s renowned national park.  Tom is also a co-founder of Rally for Rangers, a nonprofit organization that personally delivers 15 new motorcycles across amazing and difficult terrain to park rangers around the world in remote locations such as Mongolia, Nepal, and Patagonia. He [...]

Join Sarah Defnet on May 13th at 7pm when she’ll introduce you to the many ways raised bed gardening will remove the drudgery and increase your joy of gardening! Whether you enjoy growing flowers, herbs, or vegetables, she will show you how to transform your gardening experience with these new methods. Sarah will discuss types of raised beds and growing containers, creation of a raised bed soil mix, placement and planting strategies, highlights of mistakes to avoid with raised bed gardening, and strategies [...]

Join Poolesville Seniors and local historian Kenny Sholes on May 20 @7pm for another HISTORIC  AG RESERVE PROPERTIES presentation. Kenny will discuss properties in the Eastern Ag Reserve. Dotting this landscape is an array of impressive historic homes – standing as visual reminders of those who came before us.   Kenny was born and raised in Poolesville, in the heart of the Agricultural Reserve. After graduating from West Point in 2006, Kenny served as a US Army officer for five years, to include two deployments to [...]

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell is the historical fiction interpretation of the 16th century marriage of Will and Agnes, the death of their only son, Hamnet, from the bubonic plague, and the shattering effects of this loss on the family. The story has added significance for us during this time of COVID as we see playwright Will channel his grief into creating his greatest work, still popular 400 years later.  Maggie O’Farrell is an Irish-British author known for portraying unconventional women resisting the vagaries of their lives. She worked as a journalist in Hong Kong and London, a literary editor and creative writing teacher. She is [...]