Upcoming Events
3rd Annual Holbrooks on the Half Shell
Happy Hour oyster raw bar on Holbrooks Wharf and Grille with an interactive learn-how-to shuck component
Holbrook Labor Day Breakfast
Join us for the Holbrook Labor Day Breakfast
Cundy’s Harbor Community Hall
September 5 from 7:30-10 am
2022 Crates Races and Blindfold Dinghy Races
Join us for the Crate and Dinghy Races on Saturday August 6, 2002. Registration begins at noon and the races begin at 1 pm!
Holbrook's on the Half Shell
Come slurp some oysters, drink some beer & members of our Shellfish Co-op as we celebrate all things oysters & the New Meadows River….home to 12+ oyster farms, a shellfish restoration project, lobstering, recreational boating & more over Indigenous Peoples Day!
Labor Day Breakfast on the Wharf
Join us for a community breakfast on Labor Day at Holbrook Wharf. If it is raining, we’ll share breakfast with you for take out. This all volunteer team will provide you with a large variety of breakfast goodies! Donations accepted.
Crate Races & Blindfolded Dinghy Races
Join us for lobster crate races where both young and old take on the challenge of racing across 25 lobster crates extending into the bay, followed by blindfolded dinghy races.
New Meadows River Open Oyster Farm Day
It’s hard to beat spending time on the water in the summertime here in Maine! Join us in celebrating on the New Meadows River for our 1st ever Maine oyster open float day. The New Meadows River is home to eagles, osprey, seals, lobsters, fish & most recently oysters!
Our New Meadows River Shellfish Coop, a collection of twelve oyster farms aim to produce some of the finest oysters you’ll find anywhere. As your local Maine oyster farmers, we’re on the water year-round and we would love for you to come see and enjoy it too.
On Saturday, July 31st we invite you to kayak, motor or even swim up and down the river to experience our world with us! Just look for our signs identifying each of our 12 family owned & operated oyster farms. From 11:00 to 2:00, farms denoted in orange will have the oyster farmers themselves onsite to meet, greet & learn about our trade!
Don’t have a boat? We invite you to walk the shore at any of the several conserved lands and give us a holler! We’ll be on our farms, ready to talk about the river, how we grow our shellfish, teach you how to shuck an oyster and talk recipe ideas, or just get to know one another; after all, we’re all neighbors.
Boat Building
Summer 2020 with flexible scheduling to support social distancing. The work boat will then be sold and all proceeds will go to the Holbrook Community Foundation at a date to be announced.
Ann Flannery, local boat builder and woodworker (and board member of Holbrook Community Foundation), leads a boat building class for youth ages 9 – 16yrs. In 2018 & 2019 Ann and the kids, along with help from adults in the community, met on successive Sunday afternoons from February – May and each year built a 13’6” rowing skiff. This year, 2020, the class is building a 12’ work boat. The original “Riverside work skiff” was designed and built by Paul Bryant of Newcastle Maine. With permission, Ann and a colleague measured and took the lines off the work boat. They lofted the boat and from those drawings the class is replicating the Riverside work skiff. It is a pram in style and will have a rowing station as well as accept a small outboard motor. The class aims to launch the boat this Summer, 2020 on August 1st at the high tide at Holbrooks, Cundy’s Harbor.