UMaine News

University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist John Jemison was interviewed by Channel 5 (WABI) for a report on the coming fall foliage season. Jemison explained how chlorophyll and other pigments in leaves photosynthesize as the summer wanes, which turns leaves primarily from green to bright yellow, red and orange. The timing of the color change […]

A Bangor Daily News editorial about combating childhood obesity said that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension-hosted FoodCorps, an extension of the national AmeriCorps program that foments community and school gardening, along with healthy food choices, is a promising way to educate people about healthier lifestyles and ways to improve. The program is particularly effective, […]

Channel 6 (WCSH) in Portland and Bangor affiliate Channel 2 (WLBZ) ran a report featuring University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and blueberry specialist David Yarborough who discussed the season’s blueberry crops. Yarborough said the season could be the best since 2000, in spite of a dry August and blight that hurt production for some […]

The St. John Valley Times interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and crop specialist Steve Johnson in Aroostook County about how the summer’s lack of rain hurt the northern Maine potato crop. Johnson said one community, Saint Agatha, received only 1.1 inches of rain in July and less than two inches in August, which […]

Portland radio station WGAN (AM560) aired a report, which quoted University of Maine Cooperative Extension tree fruit specialist Renae Moran, on the season’s poor apple crops in Maine. The report cited a Bangor Daily New article, which also quoted Moran, as its source. Moran said global warming could be changing climate, which affects fruit trees. […]

Foster’s Daily Democrat posted a UMaine news release about the new University of Maine Cooperative Extension “More Maine Meat” initiative, which seeks to improve economic returns for livestock producers in Maine, in addition to growing the meat industry with more forage-based resources. The project involves a partnership between UMaine Extension and the Maine Sustainable Agriculture […]

The Town Line newspaper in China carried a University of Maine Cooperative Extension news release about the Master Gardener Program accepting applications for prospective volunteers in Kennebec and Waldo counties. The program provides participants with more than 40 hours of in-depth training in the art and science of horticulture. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756

The Bangor Daily News interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension tree fruit specialist Renae Moran for a report on this year’s poor apple crops. She said the erratic pre-season weather — an abnormally warm spring and a late killing frost — has reduced the yield. Moran estimated the harvest will be about 700,000 bushels statewide and that […]

The Bangor Daily News published an article about the work of FoodCorps representative Genna Cherichello, who has overseen the growth of community gardens in the Rockland area. FoodCorps is a national program, administered in Maine by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, to introduce young people to healthful foods and gardening. Cherichello also is organizing […]

An article in the Coastal Journal about a particularly successful community garden in Brunswick to benefit the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program noted that the inspiration for the 2.5-acre plot came in part from a Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust conversation with University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Richard Brzozowski in the Cumberland County office. Contact: George […]