University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist David Handley discussed this year’s early strawberry season in a Portland Press Herald feature article, which included recipes for cooking with strawberries. The article also noted a July 10 Cooperative Extension class in Falmouth on making, canning and freezing strawberry jam. Contact: George Manlove, (207) […]
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UMaine is looking at ways to help dairy farmers meet the demands of the market.
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The Downeast Fisheries Trail, a Maine Sea Grant educational initiative, launches interpretive signs at 45 locations in Hancock and Washington counties.
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist David Handley was interviewed for a Channel 6 (WCSH) report on this year’s strawberry crop, which he said is healthy and early. Handley said locally grown strawberries have more flavor and nutrition because they are allowed to fully ripen before harvest, while berries grown elsewhere […]
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University of Maine researcher Susan Brawley is seeking to cultivate appreciation for the flavors, textures and nutrients that sea vegetables add to new and familiar dishes.
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Three events are being held in July at the University of Maine Rogers Farm Forage and Crop Research Facility on Bennoch Road in Stillwater to highlight sustainable agricultural research being conducted there. On July 3, a research tour organized by UMaine Extension sustainable agriculture specialist Ellen Mallory is being offered for a group of 35 […]
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A University of Maine Cooperative Extension-sponsored initiative seeks to build individual, group and organizational capacity to strengthen what is working well for public school teachers while creatively and effectively garnering the support needed to address what needs attention.
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The news website Fenceviewer, an affiliate of the Ellsworth American, reported on a presentation before an Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting by University of Maine economists Jim McConnon, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics, and Todd Gabe, a UMaine School of Economics researcher and faculty member. They discussed […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor and blueberry specialist David Yarborough was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article published in the Kennebec Journal and other news outlets about pollination problems in many Maine blueberry barrens caused by last week’s gloomy weather, which discouraged honeybees from doing their work buzzing from flower to flower. Bees […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) ran an Associated Press report that included comments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist David Handley about how the 2012 crop is shaping up. Handley said favorable weather last fall and early warm weather this spring has helped produce a “terrific” strawberry bloom now. Maine Public Broadcasting […]
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