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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UMaine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Woodstock will share in a $692,736 federal grant to implement physical activity and nutrition programs for every student in Oxford County, according to a news story in the Lewiston Sun Journal. The grant includes funding for an experiential education coordinator who will be an employee of the 4-H […]
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An Associated Press report, which included a comment from Esperanza Stancioff of UMaine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant on the possible links between global warming and changes to the timing of the fall foliage season ran in several media outlets. USA Today included Stancioff’s comment that things are changing, but the question is how […]
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The Bangor Daily News ran a feature about the 30th anniversary of UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Senior Companion Program. Ann Swain, the statewide director of the program, was quoted about the volunteers who are connected with homebound senior citizens. Debra Eckart, the program administrator for Cooperative Extension, said in an interview the first site east of […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant climate change educator Esperanza Stancioff was quoted in an Associated Press wire story about the changes in timing to the arrival of fall foliage, and the possible link to climate change. Stancioff, who runs the “Signs of the Seasons” phenology project in which gardeners, 4-H programs, teachers, students […]
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Seacoast Online, the website for a number of newspapers in southern Maine and New Hampshire, reported on an open house held in South Berwick, Maine, noted the presence of a display by the UMaine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener program. The story said the UMaine table had a composting bin with worms, and children who were […]
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