UMaine Extension Launching Online Beginning Farmer Resource Network
UMaine Extension launching online Beginning Farmer Resource Network.
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February Stress Reduction Classes Offered to UMaine Community
A free four-week program exploring stress-reduction strategies is being offered to UMaine faculty and staff from 8:30–10 a.m. or 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. each Tuesday in February in the Multipurpose Room of the Memorial Union. Leslie Forstadt, University of Maine Cooperative Extension faculty member and child and family development specialist, will lead the classes. Attendance is […]
Read moreCoastal Paper Reports on UMaine Extension Plant Sale Benefit
The coastal Penobscot Bay Pilot reported on the “Grow It Right” initiative, through which University of Maine Cooperative Extension is selling blueberry and asparagus plants to benefit its Master Gardener Volunteers and community horticultural programs.
Read moreUMaine Extension Offers Wintertime Farming Safety Tips
University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialists coordinating the Maine AgrAbility project have offered a number of safety considerations for people who must work outdoors in cold and inclement weather. They include dressing to accommodate changing weather conditions, keeping safety gear, a first aid kit, a pocket multi-tool, headlamp and a cell phone handy, having proper […]
Read moreUMaine Extension Faculty Paper in Agricultural Journal
An article about high tunnel gardening techniques in Maine by University of Maine Cooperative Extension faculty members Caragh Fitzgerald in the Kennebec County office and Mark Hutton of the Highmoor Farm office in Monmouth appears in the latest issue of the Journal of the NACAA (National Association of County Agricultural Agents).
Read moreNewspaper Posts UMaine Video on Children, Violence
The Bangor Daily News has posted on its website a video with University of Maine Cooperative Extension child and family development specialist Leslie Forstadt discussing how parents might address violence such as the mass shooting of schoolchildren and adults in Newtown, Conn.
Read more4-H Cited as Successful Youth-Engagement Program
Barbara Baker, University of Maine Cooperative Extension associate professor and a principal investigator of a 4-H Engaging Youth, Serving Community Program in Maine, coauthored a paper about 4-H being a successful case study on engaging youth in community service activities. The paper is part of a research-based series of papers, The Kinder & Braver World […]
Read moreSunday Telegram Features UMaine Agritourism Initiative
A feature story in the Maine Sunday Telegram about the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s promotion of agritourism in Maine, which engages consumers in more active farm product acquisition, included interviews with UMaine Extension Director John Rebar and Marc Edwards, a UMaine Extension tourism and economic development professional in the Franklin County office in Farmington.
Read moreUMaine Extension Pest Specialists Find Spotted Wing Drosophila Problematic in State
University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialists tracking the invasion of the crop-damaging spotted wing drosophila fruit fly in Maine report that trapping results and surveys indicate that the pest has already become established and problematic in most of the state. UMaine Extension experts David Handley, a vegetable and small fruit specialist at Highmoor […]
Read moreUMaine’s Plant Interviewed for Grass-Based Biofuel Article
Andrew Plant, University of Maine Cooperative Extension assistant professor and educator for agriculture, was interviewed for a story in the Bangor Daily News about the continuance of a federally funded project undertaken by the University of Maine at Fort Kent, University of Maine at Presque Isle, UMaine Cooperative Extension and local farmers in Aroostook County […]
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