Cooperative Extension

Morning Ag Clips previews pasture walk in Jackson

Morning Ag Clips reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association will partner with the Maine Grass Farmers Network to offer a pasture walk at the David Greeley farm in Jackson. The walk will be held 4–6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9. Pasture walks are designed to be a […]

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Field Day at Rogers Farm Demonstration Garden, special invitation to all Master Gardeners

University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers will celebrate the growing season with a Field Day from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 at the Rogers Farm Demonstration Garden, 914 Bennoch Rd., Old Town. Field Day participants will enjoy workshops, demonstrations, children’s activities and homemade food. Featured speaker Matt Dunlap plans to share cooking […]

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Phelps named interim director of UMaine Extension

Lisa Phelps, Maine’s statewide 4-H Program leader, will serve as interim director of University of Maine Cooperative Extension, effective Sept. 1. She succeeds longtime Extension director John Rebar, who is retiring Aug. 31. Phelps will serve as interim director until the conclusion of UMaine’s national search for a new dean of UMaine Extension, which has […]

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Extension to hold emergency listening session on farmhand shortage, media report

The Bangor Daily News and Associated Press mentioned a University of Maine Cooperative Extension outreach effort in an article on a farm labor shortage causing some farmers to lose crops. Extension will partner with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association to hold an emergency listening session Wednesday, Aug. 30 to hear from farmers about the […]

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Updated and expanded Cooperative Extension recipe page now available

An updated and expanded recipes page is part of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Food & Health website. The page includes more than 100 new recipes sorted into easily searchable categories and available to the public. Each recipe has an updated format and a new FDA nutrition facts label. More information about the new […]

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Northern Maine Rural Living Day Sept. 8

The fourth annual Northern Maine Rural Living Day is Sept. 8, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Houlton Civic Center and Fairgrounds, 94 Randall Ave., Houlton. University of Maine Cooperative Extension, with support from Farm Credit East, sponsors the event. Workshop topics include managing organic and conventional apple trees, growing cranberries, home brewing, plantings […]

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Morning Ag Clips previews Field Day at Rogers Farm Sept. 8

Morning Ag Clips previewed the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Field Day from 10 a.m.—1 p.m. Sept. 8 at Rogers Farm Demonstration Garden, 914 Bennoch Road in Old Town. The Field Day will include workshops, demonstrations, homemade food and children’s activities. “We’d like to extend a special invitation to all past and current Master Gardeners […]

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The County previews Northern Maine Rural Living Day Sept. 8

The County previewed the fourth annual Northern Maine Rural Living Day from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Houlton Civic Center and Fairgrounds at 94 Randall Ave. in Houlton. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension co-sponsors the event, which will include workshops on topics from managing apple trees and growing cranberries to plantings for […]

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Morning Ag Clips, Piscataquis Observer advance Extension poultry workshop

Morning Ag Clips and The Piscataquis Observer advanced a poultry workshop held by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Piscataquis County Sept. 20. The workshop is for prospective and beginning small-scale meat and egg producers, covering topics from poultry breeds and year-round housing to nutrition and lighting options. Led by Donna Coffin, an Extension […]

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