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Explore the Skillet
Explore the Skillet

RSU 10

Explore the Skillet

RSU 10 is not seeking new Corps Members for the 2025-2026 term.

RSU #10 is a rural community in the Western Mountains of Maine. This was a robust manufacturing community until changes in that landscape altered employment opportunities and income demographics. This area is studded with outdoor opportunities, a newly established single track biking and hiking trail behind our High School, with a Community Forest Creation in the works and a local ski area. A new Pre-K -8 school has been voted on for the Rumford -Mexico communities and is close to beginning construction. This building will bring opportunity to expand scratch, local sourced, whole school meals.

Meroby Elementary school received a major grant to create an Apiary, plans to collaborate with this project are in the works, possibly accessing a local greenhouse that is currently owned and managed by a local non-profit. Goals for the next 2 years are expanding scratch meals that bring lower sodium and sugar into school meals. The Director attended the Inaugural Meeting of Scratchworks (a collaborative gathering of Nutrition Directors), this Spring with the plan to bring this energy and food production into the new Pre-K-8 and other buildings. The Buckfield Junior Senior High had a very robust garden that became dormant , but is growing again, a bee colony and outdoor amphitheater.

RSU 10 is not seeking new Corps Members for the 2025-2026 term.

RSU #10 is a rural community in the Western Mountains of Maine. This was a robust manufacturing community until changes in that landscape altered employment opportunities and income demographics. This area is studded with outdoor opportunities, a newly established single track biking and hiking trail behind our High School, with a Community Forest Creation in the works and a local ski area. A new Pre-K -8 school has been voted on for the Rumford -Mexico communities and is close to beginning construction. This building will bring opportunity to expand scratch, local sourced, whole school meals.

Meroby Elementary school received a major grant to create an Apiary, plans to collaborate with this project are in the works, possibly accessing a local greenhouse that is currently owned and managed by a local non-profit. Goals for the next 2 years are expanding scratch meals that bring lower sodium and sugar into school meals. The Director attended the Inaugural Meeting of Scratchworks (a collaborative gathering of Nutrition Directors), this Spring with the plan to bring this energy and food production into the new Pre-K-8 and other buildings. The Buckfield Junior Senior High had a very robust garden that became dormant , but is growing again, a bee colony and outdoor amphitheater.