Cooperative Extension

UMaine Extension hosting Crop Health Conference Dec. 4

Experts, researchers, farmers and industry professionals are invited to attend the 2023 Crop Health Conference from 7:45 a.m.–4 p.m. on Dec. 4 at the Northeastland Hotel in Presque Isle to explore innovative strategies and technologies for promoting crop health and advancing sustainable agriculture practices in the potato industry.  The event will feature a variety of […]

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News Observer highlights 4-H Club

The Machias Valley News Observer featured members of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Cobscook Currents 4-H Club helping a teacher and her husband with their fall harvest.

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Media promote growing native plants from seeds workshop

Morning Ag Clips and the Sun Journal advanced a workshop about growing native plants from seeds hosted by University of Maine Cooperative Extension from 10–11:30 a.m. on Dec. 9 at the UMaine Gardens at Tidewater Farm. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, visit the program webpage or contact Pamela Hargest, pamela.hargest@maine.edu; 207.949.4524.

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UMaine Extension cited in Cape Cod Times cranberry story

In a story about the various challenges Massachusetts cranberry farmers face, the Cape Cod Times cited information from University of Maine Cooperative Extension about how climate change threatens the fruit. According to the online resource from UMaine Extension, warmer springs and summers, coupled with any upticks in high heat and humidity events, can cause cranberries […]

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Get creative with UMaine Extension’s wreath making workshop on Dec. 2

University of Maine Cooperative Extension is hosting a wreath making workshop from 1-2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2, at the UMaine Gardens at Tidewater Farm, 200 Presumpscot Point Road Falmouth.  The workshop will offer participants the opportunity to unleash their creativity and craft their own unique holiday balsam fir wreaths to adorn their homes or […]

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Media advance wreath making workshop

Morning Ag Clips, the Bangor Daily News, the Sun Journal and CentralMaine.com promoted a wreath making workshop hosted by University of Maine Cooperative Extension from 1-2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2, at the UMaine Gardens at Tidewater Farm, 200 Presumpscot Point Road, Falmouth. Visit the program webpage for more information.

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Lobley award highlighted in Times Argus

The Times Argus noted that Jennifer Lobley, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor, and Allison Smith, former assistant director of University of Vermont Cooperative Extension 4-H, received a national communicator award from the National Association of Extension 4-H Youth Development Professionals.

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UMaine Extension presents virtual keynote on Wabanaki perspectives on foodways

University of Maine Cooperative Extension is inviting the public to the virtual 2023 Horticulture Keynote on the Wabanaki perspective on foodways from noon-1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16. Join Anthony Sutton, Passamaquoddy Tribe member from Sipayik and assistant professor of Native American studies and food systems at the University of Maine, for his presentation titled […]

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