09/03/2026
Radical Reuse brings our community together.
Thank you to all of the vendors, makers, musicians, food trucks, volunteers, and everyone who came out to this year’s Radical Reuse Festival. It was pretty incredible to see so many different parts of Maine’s reuse community in one place -- people finding new homes for old materials, sharing what they make, and connecting with others who are thinking about "waste" differently.
We are especially proud and grateful for our impressive summer cohort of paid young interns, who not only helped prepare for and run the event, but who also spent the season learning by doing: deconstructing buildings, salvaging materials, designing and building with what we recover, and gaining firsthand experience of what a circular construction industry can look like.
We also shared a small exhibition about the Long House, our ongoing experiment in bringing undervalued resources together to build new housing for emerging tradespeople. It’s one example of how Secondhand First Design can extend beyond reuse itself -- a way of approaching how we learn, work, and live that begins with what's already here.
Thanks to everyone who helped make this year’s Festival happen!
And thanks to Landon Geis for capturing the day