Boothbay Register reports on Maine AgrAbility presentation at garden club meeting
Boothbay Register published a Boothbay Region Garden Club news release about the group’s recent meeting that focused on safer and more comfortable ways to garden. Ellen Gibson of Maine AgrAbility led the group through simple stretching exercises, according to the article. As a member of the Maine AgrAbility staff, Gibson provides information and technical assistance to farmers and gardeners who suffer injuries, pain or disabilities, the article states. For the garden club presentation, she focused on the two major problems encountered by people who do extensive gardening: lower back pain and arthritis. The Maine AgrAbility program is a nonprofit partnership among the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Goodwill and Alpha One that assists farmers, loggers and fishermen with disabilities and chronic illnesses so they may remain active in production agriculture.