The University of Maine Cooperative Extension has received renewed funding for a 4-H program that has introduced hundreds of middle and high school students to sustainable lifestyle practices and inspired them to positively influence their schools and communities through service-learning activities.
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A UMaine Cooperative Extension kids’ gardening program was the subject of a news item in the Current Publishing newspapers in southern Maine. The Kids Can Grow program, which started in 1999 and has grown to encompass most of Maine and parts of New Hampshire, is now going national through a website. The program, founded by […]
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Kathryn Hopkins, University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator in the Somerset County office in Skowhegan, who co-founded the New England Maple Grading School in 2003, has received this year’s international Golden Maple Leaf Award for developing and running the program. The annual fall event, now called the Maple Grading School, is scheduled through 2014, when […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Maine Harvest for Hunger Program this year generated 179,712 pounds of fresh garden produce donated to charity by volunteer gardeners around the state.
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A Bangor Daily News article on twin brothers Matthew and Ben Nichols noted that Matt Nichols became last spring one of the youngest people to complete UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardener program, which includes 40 hours of in-depth training in the art and science of horticulture. Nichols had special permission to enroll because he is […]
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This year was a very good year for Maine cranberries, possibly a $2 million year for growers, according to University of Maine Cooperative Extension cranberry professional Charlie Armstrong.
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The Watertown Daily Times of northern New York state had a report on researchers who are studying the collapse of native bee colonies in the eastern U.S., and noted a federal grant to study the health of bee colonies, in which UMaine Cooperative Extension professor of insect ecology and insect pest management Frank Drummond is […]
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Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor of insect ecology and insect pest management Frank Drummond on Monday for a news report on a research project on the decline of native bee populations in the eastern U.S. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has award researchers from UMaine, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Cornell […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension Educator Ellie Libby was interviewed by the Kennebec Journal for a story about FoodCorps, a new national service organization that is an offshoot of AmeriCorps. UMaine was one of 10 national partners selected to participate in the program. Libby told the newspaper Maine has the maximum number of FoodCorps service members than […]
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Jim Dill, a pest management specialist on the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty, was quoted in a Maine Sunday Telegram story about fleas and how to manage them in a household setting. Dill points out that ridding a home of fleas is a tricky proposition, but that regular vacuuming is key.
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