Rural Living Day advanced in BDN
The Bangor Daily News previewed the 22nd annual Rural Living Day slated from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 2 at Mount View High School in Thorndike. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Waldo County Extension Association are hosting the event that will include workshops on topics such as building small homes, baking bread, birding, pasturing chickens, plant propagation, making maple sugar and candy, and growing berries in Maine. “All our topics are awesome,” said Caragh Fitzgerald, a UMaine Extension educator and professor of agriculture. “It’s a great day. There are always really interesting topics, and it’s a good chance for people to catch up with gardening friends. I just really enjoy the diversity of it all.” Fitzgerald will share tips on extending the gardening season, an idea she said recently has been taking root in Maine, where gardeners contend with a shorter season than their counterparts in warmer states, according to the article. “People are trying to find ways to get more produce out of the growing season,” she said. Vina Lindley, a food systems/youth development professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Waldo County, also visited the WABI (Channel 5) studio to speak about the event.