University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar for home gardeners about effective houseplant care on March 4, noon–1:15 p.m. “How Not to Kill Your Houseplants” includes tips for matching a potting medium, watering, lighting, containers, pest control and humidity to a plant’s needs. Karen Ramsey, owner of Ledgewood Gardens Greenhouses in Orrington, will […]
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A long-time member of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H program for youth development won a national award for showing cattle. At the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado on Jan. 14, Lauren Pride and her heifer calf PFF Krew won Grand Champion Percentage Aberdeen Female in the Junior Show. She also won […]
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Anne Lichtenwalner, director of the University of Maine Animal Health Laboratory, was featured in a WMTW report about avian influenza in Knox County. Lichtenwalner said that chicken owners using free-range methods “really need to rethink things this year” because of the H5N1 strain detected in Knox County.
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Donna Coffin, University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor, was featured in a WAGM-TV County Ag Report about growing microgreens at home. Coffin said, “You’re starting some seeds in a seedling mixture, a soilless mixture, usually. You get them to grow up to a certain height, and then you cut them and eat them when they’re […]
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CentralMaine.com, the Bangor Daily News shared information about the University of Maine Cooperative Extension webinar for home gardeners about mushroom cultivation set for noon-1:15 p.m. Feb. 25. Learn more and register on the program webpage.
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot, Morning Ag Clips, CentralMaine.com, the Bangor Daily News and the Machias Valley News Observer shared information about the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s eight-session series online for Maine farming, fishing or forestry producers ages 20–35 who are interested in agricultural business training.
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The Daily Bulldog, The Piscataquis Observer and the Bangor Daily News shared information about a University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Extension webinar for home gardeners on propagating trees and shrubs in winter months, from 6–7:15 p.m. March 7. Learn more and register on the program webpage.
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension are hosting an informational webinar about a new program for produce farmers to help them start or improve their farm food safety planning from 4–5 p.m. March 1. “Jumpstart to Farm Food Safety” is a yearlong technical support program available by application to […]
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News Center Maine reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab’s 2021 Surveillance Program data. The report featured Griffin Dill, the Tick Lab coordinator, who said that editing genes in ticks “really kind of opens up new avenues for research on their physiology and [the] way they interact with the pathogens they become infected […]
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The Daily Bulldog, PenBay Pilot, CentralMaine.com, Lincoln County News and the Piscataquis Observer shared a University of Maine Cooperative Extension webinar for home gardeners about effective houseplant care that will take place from noon–1:15 p.m. March 4.
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