Griffin Dill, a pest management professional and manager of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension tick lab, and Alessio Mortelliti, a UMaine associate professor of wildlife habitat ecology, talked with the Bangor Daily News for a story about the role of the white-footed mouse in spreading Lyme disease. The Piscataquis Observer shared the BDN story.
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Allie Gardner, a University of Maine assistant professor of arthropod vector biology, shared updated tick prevention strategies with VillageSoup, and promoted online resources University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s tick lab.
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension Aroostook County will be giving away cherry tomato seedlings from 10 a.m.–noon on Saturday, June 5, at the Aroostook Centre Mall parking lot, 830 Main St., Presque Isle, as part of the One Tomato Project. UMaine Extension staff and members of Aroostook County Extension Homemakers and 4-H will be at […]
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Griffin Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension tick lab manager, spoke with the Ellsworth American about tick season. Dill said the season is robust this year because of the mild winter and early spring. ”We’ve been seeing really high dog tick activity since the end of March,” he said.
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Kate Garland, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension horticulture specialist, about how to succeed at gardening. “There are so many ways you can be successful with a garden,” she said. “Folks tend to get intimidated too easily.”
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Centralmaine.com advanced University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H’s hands-on program for youth ages 9 to 18 interested in learning more about dogs. The dog clinic is scheduled to run 8:30 a.m.–noon Saturday, June 12, at the University of Maine’s J. Franklin Witter Teaching and Research Center, 160 University Farm Road, Old Town. The Bangor Daily […]
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Fiddlehead Focus noted that University of Maine Cooperative Extension Aroostook County will give away cherry tomato seedlings from 10 a.m.–noon on Saturday, June 5, at the Aroostook Centre Mall parking lot, 830 Main St., Presque Isle, as part of the One Tomato Project.
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Morning Ag Clips highlighted the 2021 Maine Farm Worker Compensation Survey from University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Vegetable and Small Fruit Growers Association.
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will offer a hands-on program for youth ages 9–18 interested in learning more about dogs from 8:30 a.m–noon June 12 at the University of Maine’s J. Franklin Witter Teaching and Research Center, 160 University Farm Road, Old Town. The Spring 2021 Maine 4-H Dog Clinic will offer participants activities […]
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To encourage more people to grow their own vegetables, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Piscataquis County Extension Executive Committee adopted the One Tomato project in 2014. So far, over 2,670 cherry tomato seedlings have been distributed to local gardeners producing a yield of tomatoes valued at $8.38 per plant, according to Donna Coffin, […]
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