HardScrabble Solutions has a community of women in all stages of life from all backgrounds using our family friendly coworking space
Maine Magazine features HardScrabble Solutions! Maine Magazine featured HardScrabble Solutions and Founder, Lillie Lavado, in the January 2019 Entrepreneur edition. People in Maine are taking notice of our unique business model. It is widely acknowledged that the solutions we seek to offer are necessary to counter the changing social and Read more…
Community Members from the Aroostook Band of Micmac community hosted a month of events beginning in February 2019. Community members volunteered to offer free Friday night demonstrations and tutorials of traditional art forms. This culminated in an art exhibit on display at HardScrabble Solutions throughout the month of March. On Read more…
The Star Herald covers KidzCode Robotics KidzCode Robotics is part of the children’s computer programming lineup taught by the UX & Web Design Team at HardScrabble Solutions. Here is an article published in the Star Herald and online on TheCounty.me…
://Network/community/project/learn/teach/nosh/gab.now **Code like a Mother** is a meetup for women who work with computer technology and those seeking to learn programming skills in a supportive environment. Gatherings take place, at HardScrabble Solutions with opportunity to work on group projects, socialize, and enjoy a drink and nosh on some tasty treats. Our Read more…
://Network/community/project/learn/teach/nosh/gab.now Code like a Mother is a new meetup for women who work with computer technology and those seeking to learn programming skills in a supportive environment. Gatherings will take place, at HardScrabble Solutions in Downtown Presque Isle, Maine, with opportunity to work on a group project, socialize, and enjoy Read more…
An exciting and inspiring reading/gathering/discussion was hosted here at HardScrabble Solutions on Sunday, July 15th by Xan Joi, a Berkeley, California-based author and self-proclaimed radical Jewish and white lesbian anti-racist womonist/feminist. Roughly one dozen Aroostook County residents and their children attended and partook in stimulating conversation with true regard for enacting Read more…
First Friday Art Walk – July 2018 Sharon Belanger is a life-long learner who has dabbled in many art forms over the years. Now, at age 72, she debuted her first public exhibit of acrylic paintings.HardScrabble Solutions was abuzz with youthful admirers on a balmy Friday, July 7th. All team Read more…
HardScrabble Solutions is evolving! We offer family-friendly coworking, private event space, and business incubation services in Downtown Presque Isle. HardScrabble Solutions Founder and UX & Web Design Team at HardScrabble Solutions member, Lillie Lavado, recently spoke to Shawn Cunningham of WAGM-TV to discuss unique aspects of our business model. Lillie Read more…
It’s shy of a year since Dahlov Ipcar passed at 99 in Brunswick, Maine… She was the author and amazing artist/illustrator of Hardscrabble Harvest, a children’s book about a young couple eking a hardscrabble existence in Maine. They raise animals and crops, can and preserve, live and love. It was Read more…
People make-do in rural Northern Maine and HardScrabble Solutions is doing the same by offering family-friendly coworking. There are few tech workers in an economy centered on potato and lumber harvesting so desk space isn’t in high demand. Most of our coworkers juggle gigs in sales or service with roles Read more…
Family-friendly coworking space opens in PI Anthony Brino • August 2, 2017 With one of the first coworking spaces in northern Maine, Lillie Lavado is trying to solve some of the problems facing working parents and mothers especially. “More people are working in the alternative economy. They’re gigging, freelancing and Read more…
Stop by the new local family-friendly coworking space at 445 Main St. in Presque Isle from 5pm-7pm. For just $5 you can make your own bottle of bug spray (or tick repellent) using Neal’s Yard Remedies Organic Essential Oils. You’ll learn which essential oils to use, how to measure and Read more…
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