BELFAST — Interested in being a site on the Cultivate: Belfast Area Farm and Art Fall Tour, Oct. 10 and 11, 2015? Sign up is due by August 18th. All locations need to be within 30 to 45 minutes driving time from Belfast. If you are interested in being a site on the tour, please email or call Belfast Creative Coalition Executive Director:  Kimberly Callas at kimberly@belfastcreativecoalition.org or call 207-323-8692.

Developed by the Belfast Creative Coalition (BCC), Cultivate: Belfast Area Farm and Arts Trail and Fall Tour highlights the richness of art, culture and agriculture in and around 26 coastal and rural communities in Midcoast Maine. Belfast Creative Coalition hosts an annual Cultivate Fall Tour over the Saturday and Sunday of Columbus Day weekend from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The tour includes open studios, farm tours and special workshops and demonstrations. Visitors are encouraged to bring their families and visit the farms, artists’ working in their studios, see a glass blowing demonstration or learn how to make soap.

A Cultivate Pop-Up exhibit, where the participating tour sites bring in their artwork and handmade farm goods, will be held on September 25, 5:30to 8p.m. in downtown Belfast as part of Belfast Friday Night Artwalk.

Please note that changes have been made this year to increase visitors to your site, including limiting the number of sites and the days of the tour. South Waldo County will be on Saturday, Oct.10, including downtown Belfast, and North Waldo County will be on Sunday, Oct. 11. We also have received a Maine Arts Commission Grant to help promote the tour. So, if you are interested, please sign up as soon as you can.

Cultivate is now part of the Belfast Creative Coalition membership program. If you are already a member, the cost is $50. For non-members, the cost is $75 for an artist or farm site which now includes a year of BCC membership. Cost for organizations is $150 which now includes a year of BCC membership. If you are not sure of your membership status, please email or call and we will look it up for you. For more information on membership, visit belfastcreativecoalition.org/membership-overview/