On Friday, May 13 at 11 a.m. the gates will open to the tenth Annual Northern New England Home, Garden, and Flower show at the Fryeburg Fairgrounds. For three days, May 13, 14 & 15, the public can enjoy and be inspired by hundreds of exhibits, talks, and demonstrations presented by the regions formost experts and artisans.

• Meet the Chefs- delicious and dramatic cooking lessons from great chefs
• Eleven Garden Centers- browse and find all your garden needs
• Eco-Friendly-and state of the art product displays and sources for greener living
• Remodeling- practical, cost efficient ideas in construction
• Energy-savers- shrink your carbon footprint and your fuel budget
• Words of Wisdon- talk with experts, see the products and gather valuable information.

Our spring show is full of inspirational ideas for the home and garden. This year our home and energy related businesses are putting a special emphasis on updating and remodeling in today's new eco-friendly world, all designed to help consumers make informed decisions about their homes.

In the News

Home, Garden & Flower Show Wraps Up At Fryeburg Fairgrounds

Northern New England Home Show rides again at Fryeburg Fairgrounds

Our eleven garden centers are filled with thousands of zone hardy plants, all ready to take home and plant! Whether you're a new gardener, or an old hand in the garden, this is a great opportunity to hear what's new and what's good. Our garden artisans fill the Craft building with garden related crafts and great variety of specialty foods.

We have assembled a quality mix of exhibitors, speakers, crafters, and demonstrations. Our exhibitors are here to help enlighten attendees to the newest energy saving products on the market. Others will showcase their amazing talent in landscape and gardening expertise. If you seek new ideas, detailed product information, plants or veggie seedlings to purchase, great garden crafts, or you just want a fun way to spend a spring weekend, this event should be high on your weekend schedule.

Meet the Chefs!
Returning again this year is the popular Meet the Chefs cooking series, taking place in EXPO One. This state-of-the-art kitchen studio has been designed by Hancock Lumber and Home Again of Maine and North Conway. Through special arrangements with Agren Appliances of S. Portland and Norway, ME our kitchen area is equipped with the latest in Viking appliances and cookware. Cutco Cutlery has provided the studio with their newest line of cutlery. Northeast FLAVOR Magazine and Cabot Cheese Cooperative and Candace Karu, the Cabot Cheese Lifestyle Coordinator with present to you our chefs.

2011 Show Poster

We are delighted to have Mary Ann Esposito, the creator and host of the PBS series, Ciao Italia, television's longest running cooking show, returning as one of our celebrity chefs. As Esquire Magazine Food Critic, John Mariani recently said when describing her as one of the finest chefs on television, "Mary Ann Esposito, now in her nineteenth season, is the Italian mama you always wished you had. Sweet, accessible, and intolerant of shortcuts or substitutions, Mary Ann truly wants to make you happy. You can almost feel her take your hand, push it into the pasta dough, and roll it as her ancestors have for centuries."

Our 2011 series showcases our biggest line-ups ever of amazing chefs, including:

The return of National Award Winning, Denny Sherman. DennyMikes Cue Stuff is delightfully entertaining and has the best barbeque sauce around. Jim Davis, Stonehurst Manor wowed the crowds last year with his brick oven broiled mussels and pizza in our outdoor brick oven, built by David Neufeld of North Star Stoneworks and Design.

Jean Kerr, editor of Northeast FLAVOR Magazine and cookbook author; Peggy Evans of ABC, A Better Food Choice; The Mountain View Grand's Chef Gordon Breidenbach and Desert Chef Cedric Begiun; White Mountain Cider Company's Tim Pomerleau; The Balsams, Chef Bill Bennett, Jack Ford, Jimmie Kennedy, Brad Southwick and more. All amazing and all are ready to share tips and recipes.

2011 Schedule Poster

AND SPEAKING OF FOOD
You want to make sure to make room for some good old fashioned fair food, from fried clams and lobster rolls to sausage with peppers, fried dough, pizza, apple crisp, ice cream and more.

And Let's Not Forget the Kids...fun activities all weekend long of the young ones, children's rides, face painting, children's planting demonstrations and lots more...

Thank you to the people who make it happen: Our sponsors

• WMTW Channel 8
• Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram
• FRANK FM 107.5
• Hancock Lumber Home Again
• Agren Appliance
• Cutco Cutlery
• Northeast FLAVOR Magazine
• Cabot's Creamery Cooperative
• Johnny's Selected Seeds
• MELNA (Maine Landscape & Nurseryman's Association)

Join us for a fun day!
The 2011 Northern New England Home Garden Flower Show at the Fryeburg Fairgrounds, Fryeburg, ME
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, May 13th
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 14th
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 15th

General admission is $9 for adults and $7 for seniors (over 65). Youth aged 6 to 16 are $4.00 and children under 6 are free.