The Lewiston Sun Journal highlights a statewide program through which the UMaine Cooperative extension distributes vegetables to food pantries, senior lunches, and outside some Cooperative Extension offices. Barbara Murphy, an Extension educator, says about one in five Maine families aren’t sure where their next meal is going to come from.
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The Bangor Daily News reports on presentation by UMaine Cooperative Extension Researcher Dave Handley and members of the Extension’s Master Gardeners Program. The presentation, which includes information about maintaining healthy crops, is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 31 at the Rogers Farm in Stillwater.
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An early spring and a dry, hot summer has led to an early appearance of crops such as pumpkins, UMaine Cooperative Extension Vegetable Specialist Mark Hutton says.
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UMaine Political Scientist Amy Fried tells the Bangor Daily News it isn’t easy to read the meaning behind Democratic gubernatorial candidate Libby Mitchell’s decision to pull out of Thursday morning’s candidates debate in Bangor. Mitchell said earlier this week she would not participate in the debate because not all of the independent candidates had been […]
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Contact: Margaret Nagle (207) 581-3744 The Gulf of Maine waters are cooler, fresher and lower in nitrate than they were 30 years ago, causing a nutrient shift that has potential implications for the structure of the planktonic ecosystem, according to oceanographers at the University of Maine. Based on recent oceanographic observations, coupled with a 50-year […]
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Contact: Margaret Nagle (207) 581-3745 Contrary to popular perception, forest biomass is not waste. In today’s growing bioenergy industry, forest biomass is better described as “energy wood.” Usually energy wood includes the tops, limbs and stems of poor form or size removed during harvest. But if market conditions are right, a growing energy wood market […]
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Contact: Margaret Nagle (207) 581-3745 When the oceanic phenomenon El Niño strikes every four to seven years, it wreaks havoc on the world’s weather patterns, fishing and agriculture. University of Maine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss wants to know how ancient civilizations coped with these blows to their way of life. For the past five years, Sandweiss […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — More than 1,800 new first year students will join the University of Maine community on Friday Aug. 27 during the traditional Maine Hello move-in event. Part of Fall Welcome Weekend, the award-winning Maine Hello features more than 800 volunteers — faculty and staff members, students and alumni […]
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In an article about a bread conference in Skowhegan, the New York Times mentioned a UMaine-University of Vermont partner program that finds the best grain in New England.
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The 100-foot meteorological tower that UMaine leased to a Portland-area environmental group in order to gather data about wind resources on Peaks Island, was erected Aug. 24, the Island Institute reports. UMaine researchers will analyze the data logged at the site.
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