The Bangor Daily News, Daily Bulldog and Morning Ag Clips shared that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering an eight-hour ServSafe Food Protection Manager course 9 a.m.–5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The course, held at the Cumberland County Extension office, 75 Clearwater Drive in Falmouth, will help prepare students for the ServSafe Food […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Kate Garland, horticulturist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about late season rhubarb. Garland said the idea among gardeners that rhubarb is done producing viable stalks in early July likely comes from misinformation that has been passed down for generations. “[The lore is] part of the tradition of what […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering an eight-hour ServSafe Food Protection Manager course on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The course, held at the Cumberland County Extension office, 75 Clearwater Drive in Falmouth, will help prepare students for the ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification exam. The exam will immediately follow the […]
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Morning Ag Clips, Mainebiz, Dairy Business and CompsMag reported that Glenda Pereira, assistant extension professor and dairy specialist at University of Maine Cooperative Extension and assistant professor of animal science at the School of Food and Agriculture, is leading a project with Maine dairy farmers that uses electronic ear tags that track cow movements with […]
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David Handley, vegetable and small-fruit specialist at University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke to the Portland Press Herald about the different impacts of early season weather on this year’s summer crops, particularly corn. Handley said that corn planted before the onset of heavy rain made it too muddy to plant more. Once it could be […]
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The County reported on the winners of the inaugural whoopie pie contest hosted by the Aroostook County Extension Homemakers at the Northern Maine Fair. Judges for the whoopie pie competition were Ibrahim Kutay Ozturk, professor of potato pathology for University of Maine Cooperative Extension, and David Lowe, sustainable agriculture and horticulture professor at Extension.
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The Bangor Daily News spoke to Kathy Savoie, professor at University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about foaming watermelons purchased by consumers in Maine. “There have been increases in hot weather in those parts of the country. Fruits have a natural sugar called fructose and under extended and undesirable storage conditions, it will ferment. … The […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Lily Calderwood, wild blueberry specialist for University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about the impact of June and July rain on this year’s wild blueberry crop. “This was perfect timing for the blueberries, they love rain,” Calderwood said. Yahoo! News shared the PPH report.
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The Bangor Daily News, Sun Journal and CentralMaine.com shared that the University of Maine Center on Aging has launched the Age-Friendly University Resources (AFU Resources) hub, a centralized repository for educational materials, services, events, volunteer opportunities and other activities for older people offered by UMaine, the University of Maine at Machias and University of Maine Cooperative […]
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A Portland Press Herald column about saving Maine’s native bees cited information from University of Maine Cooperative Extension showing that 500 colonies of honeybees were brought into the state in 1965 to supplement native pollinators ahead of the blueberry harvest. By 2016, that number had skyrocketed to 80,000 colonies.
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