Mahtomedi Community Education

The Mahtomedi Area Farmers’ Market brings produce growers, artists, bakers, crafters and community organizations together every Saturday morning throughout the summer in Veteran’s Memorial Park (formerly Triangle Park). Local vendors offer fresh produce, flowers and plants, honey, artisan breads, handmade crafts and artwork and much more! Saturdays from June 28th - September 27th 8am - noon No Registration Necessary.

Grab three of your favorite puzzle loving friends or family members to complete the same 500 piece themed puzzle. Show off your strategic planning and problem solving skills as your team races to complete their puzzle in the timed, two-hour event. Prizes awarded to the top three teams. Set-up and prep time 5 - 5:15 pm. All teams must be checked in by 5:15 pm. Teams will keep the puzzle at the conclusion of the event. $40 per team

You and your family will learn how to orienteer through woods and how animals migrate through activities that get you out exploring and moving. Class will include activities like how to make your own compass, navigating with a compass, and more! Great information and skills for kids and families to learn in a fun and engaging way with many activities you can continue to do at home! This is a class for students 6+ with an adult or family. A registered adult must be in attendance with children. You must register each person attending (children and adults).

Join us for a FREE concert at the District Education Center full of music and entertainment from The Royal Order of Chords and Keys (R.O.C.K.) 1520 Mahtomedi Ave, Mahtomedi, MN 55115 MikMart Ice Cream Truck will be there, too! Make sure to bring your own lawn chair or blanket to get comfortable. *If inclement weather the concert will be held at Mahtomedi Middle School No need to register - see you there!

MahtoREADi was established with the goal of promoting literacy, fostering community, cultivating intergenerational connections and encouraging exposure to diverse cultures. We are excited to announce the MahtoREADi 2025 book selection: I Cheerfully Refuse Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake. Lief Enger Leif Enger grew up in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his bestselling debut novel Peace Like a River, which won the Booksense Award for Fiction and was named one of the Year’s Best Books by Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. His second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, was also a national bestseller. It was a Midwest Booksellers Honor Book, and won the High Plains Book Award for Fiction. His third novel Virgil Wander was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, Library Journal, Bookpage, and Chicago Public Library. He lives with his wife in Duluth, MN.