UMaine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit Specialist David Handley was featured in a Bangor Daily News story about the impending strawberry season. Handley has been quoted this week in several news reports about this year’s crop, which he says should be strong, with good quality, size and number of berries. Handley also appears on […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension Specialist David Handley was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald story about the upcoming strawberry crop. Handley said the strawberry plants are where they should be in terms of flower development and plant health. He added there have been few strawberry-eating insects this year. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News feature article about a Caribou man who has carved out a niche in the computer games world. McConnon says Christopher York’s success is a sign of the expansion and penetration of broadband into rural parts of […]
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MONMOUTH — One of the most delightful harbingers of summer is at hand with strawberry season beginning in Maine. University of Maine Cooperative Extension strawberry specialist David Handley is available to provide an update on where strawberries are ripening around the state, the condition of the crop and best handling advice.
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An article in the Bangor Daily News advancing Thursday’s Maine Grass Farmers Network pasture walk mentions the network’s cooperative relationship with UMaine Cooperative Extension and other groups to provide education and marketing opportunities for producers of pasture-raised livestock. The story also mentions pasture walk host farm W.R. Sherburne and Sons Inc., of Dexter, whose owners […]
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The Village Soup website reports that UMaine Cooperative Extension has received funding through the Department of Defense to provide adventure summer camps to teenagers with a family member currently or recently in the service. The only cost for the family will be a $10 registration fee. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Lewiston Sun Journal has a story about a UMaine Cooperative Extension and Maine Harvest for Hunger project at the former Franklin County Detention Center in Farmington, where inmates at the Somerset County Jail in Madison are transported to work a garden plot under the direction of master gardeners including Lauren St. Germaine of Cooperative […]
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Contact: Ellen Mallory, 207-581-2942 or ellen.mallory@maine.edu STILLWATER, Maine — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension will hold on Wednesday, June 29, its annual Sustainable Agriculture Field Day for farmers, crop advisors, home gardeners, and others interested in small-scale vegetable production.
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WABI television broadcast a Friday report about an event celebrating the 30th anniversary of UMaine’ Cooperative Extension’s Senior Companions program. The story includes comments from volunteer Bob Mattingly and from Ann Swain, the program’s director.
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In an op-ed piece in the Bangor Daily News, Eastern Maine Development Corp. President Michael Aube lauded UMaine for embarking on development by using traditional sectors of Maine’s economy, such as forestry, farming and fishing, to advance energy, composites and aquaculture. Aube also recognized UMaine as the state’s premier postgraduate and research institution. Contact: Jessica […]
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