Maine Home, Remodeling & Garden Show Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, Maine |
Seacoast Home, Garden & Flower Show Whittemore Arena, UNH. Durham, New Hanpshire |
Northern New England Home Garden & Flower Show Fryeburg Fairgrounds, Fryeburg, Maine |
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2011 SHOW DATES ANNOUNCED FOR NEW ENGLAND HOME,
GARDEN AND FLOWER SHOWS
Over 20 years of showcasing the newest products and services for the home and garden
Fryeburg, Maine: The 2011 show dates have been announced for three of the largest and most diverse Home, Garden and Flower shows held in the Northeast. On February 19 & 20, 2011, the 20th Maine Home, Remodeling and Garden Show will return to the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine for the first show filled with inspirational ideas plus unique products and services for the home and garden. Next is the 17th Seacoast Home and Garden Show on March 26 & 27, held at the UNH Whittemore Center in Durham, New Hampshire. Lastly, on the 10 Annual Northern New England Home, Garden and Flower Show returns to the Fryeburg Fairgrounds in Fryeburg, Maine May 13, 14 & 15, 2011.
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Each of the three shows has its own distinctive flavor according to the season and locale, bringing together a unique blend of home-and-garden-related products and services, quality merchandise from regional artists and artisans, product demonstrations, and expert advice from home and garden pros. Also represented at each show are exhibitors from a wide variety of businesses and services ranging from national franchises to entrepreneurial start-ups. Meet the Chefs features guest chefs from the most popular kitchens in Maine and New Hampshire as large audiences pack the studio kitchens to watch the chefs prepare culinary delights-and to sample the results. The Smart Homeowner Seminars offer cutting edge information to show attendees on eco-friendly and green products and services. The All Things Growing Seminars, garden marketplaces and landscape displays offer a vast assortment of plants, shrubs, flowers and garden supplies.
"Our seminar series are one of the highlights of our shows. We have some of the top businesses in energy and environmentally sensitive fields sharing their knowledge" said Karla Ficker, co-producer. "With so many new products coming onto the market, we all need help in understanding how they can help the average consumer. This is the goal of the seminars."
And if it rains?
"Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains." The author of this quote is unknown.
Whoever penned it was most certainly a gardener or a farmer, for those who live closest to the earth are not only the most tolerant of nature's ways, but the most forgiving, even when droplets fall at inconvenient times.
Our Home, Garden & Flower Show celebrates Spring, and into each Spring,
some rain must fall. Sometimes, it falls during our show.
The vast majority of our show (65,000 s.f.) is inside with
the garden centers both inside and outside. Since you must
walk between exhibit halls, the Meet the Chefs series in Expo I,
and the wonderful seminars that take place in Old MacDonald's Farm,
plan ahead to have footwear that will keep your feet warm dry and an
umbrella or slicker to keep the rest of you that way, too.