The Maine Edge ran a press release about the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Waldo County Extension Association’s 22nd annual Rural Living Day on Saturday, April 2, at Mount View High School. Workshop topics will include building small homes, baking bread, birding, pasturing chickens, plant propagation, making maple sugar and candy and growing […]
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Jim Dwyer, a crops specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about second-generation potatoes. A new genetically engineered potato has been ruled safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and has been deregulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to the article. Made […]
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Basic practices appropriate for small-scale livestock producers and 4-H project leaders will be the focus of a Livestock 101 Field Day from 11:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at the University of Maine J. Franklin Witter Teaching & Research Center, 160 University Farm Road, Old Town. The free public program will demonstrate hands-on […]
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Boothbay Register published a Boothbay Region Garden Club news release about the group’s recent meeting that focused on safer and more comfortable ways to garden. Ellen Gibson of Maine AgrAbility led the group through simple stretching exercises, according to the article. As a member of the Maine AgrAbility staff, Gibson provides information and technical assistance […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Waldo County Extension Association are hosting the 22nd annual Rural Living Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 2 at Mount View High School, 577 Mount View Road, Thorndike. Workshops include building small homes, baking bread, birding, pasturing chickens, plant propagation, making maple sugar and candy, […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a University of Maine Cooperative Extension video featuring Ed and Pat Jillson, owners of Jillson’s Farm & Sugarhouse in Sabattus. The Jillsons have been married nearly six decades, and have been farming for several decades — opening their first vegetable stand in 1966, according to the article. UMaine Extension […]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has highlighted work by the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine in the U.S. Government’s Climate Resilience Toolkit. The project, which was led by Esperanza Stancioff of Maine Sea Grant and University of Maine Cooperative Extension and funded by NOAA’s Climate Program Office, focused […]
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University of Maine economics professors Todd Gabe and Jim McConnon spoke with WABI (Channel 5) at a recent meeting of the Bar Harbor Cruise Ship Committee that was held to discuss the effect of cruise ships on local merchants. More than 120 ships and nearly 160,000 passengers are already booked for Bar Harbor’s 2016 season, […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on an informational meeting about robotic dairy systems hosted by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension at Governor’s restaurant in Waterville. The meeting was designed for dairy farmers and industry leaders to learn more about available robotic technology. In coming weeks, UMaine Extension faculty plan to discuss bringing robotics to […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a recent sheep shearing school offered by the Maine Sheep Breeders Association and University of Maine Cooperative Extension at Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport. The groups hold workshops every spring when sheep need to be shorn, according to the article. “There seems to always be a need for qualified […]
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