Morning Ag Clips reported applications are now available for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Kids Can Grow gardening program in York County. Children ages 7–12 will learn how to grow vegetables, flowers and herbs, and how to build and maintain a raised-bed garden at home, as well as learn about community service by donating […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) covered the University of Maine Woodsmen Team’s annual home meet on Feb. 16 at the J. Franklin Witter Teaching and Research Center in Old Town. Nineteen teams from eight New England schools competed in a variety of timber sports at the event, one of eight competitions the UMaine […]
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The Bangor Daily News quoted Esperanza Stancioff, an Extension professor and climate change educator with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in an article about citizen science on homesteads. Homesteaders are constantly conducting experiments and making observations, creating opportunities to turn that information into usable data for citizen science research projects, the article states. Stancioff leads […]
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Lancaster Farming covered the second annual University of Maine Cooperative Extension Flowering in the North Conference Jan. 29–30 in Portland. The conference focused on learning how to operate a successful fresh-cut flower farm. “This is a rapidly growing area with several experienced and beginning farmers increasing their cut flower production,” said Jason Lilley, a sustainable […]
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University of Maine scientists Sean Birkel, Paul Mayewski and Esperanza Stancioff were mentioned in a Pine Tree Watch report about planning for climate change that ran in The Times Record. The Climate Change Institute’s Coastal Maine Climate Futures report, prepared by Maine State Climatologist Birkel and CCI director Mayewski, was highlighted in the article. “With […]
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The Bangor Daily News asked Kate Garland, University of Maine Cooperative Extension horticulturist, for tips about getting garden plots ready for spring. Garland recommends testing and, if necessary, neutralizing the soil. She also suggested adding compost to improve the soil structure and planning where to place pathways.
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Andrea Nurse, a paleoecology research associate with the Climate Change Institute, was mentioned in an Entomology Today article about tracking pesticides in honey bee pollen to their source plants. Nurse specializes in pollen and plant macrofossil analyses.
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A Bangor Daily News story about how Maine’s climate won’t feel like Maine in another 60 years cited a 2016 study by researchers at the Darling Marine Center and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. The study indicated that baby lobsters may not be able to survive if temperatures in the Gulf of Maine increase by […]
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The Maine Department of Education recently shared a story in its online newsletter about an Old Town High School senior who overcame reading and writing struggles as a young student with the help of Reading Recovery. Emma Hargreaves received individualized literacy instruction through the program as a first-grader, and today she has a love of […]
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The Town Line quoted Alessio Mortelliti, an assistant professor of wildlife habitat ecology at the University of Maine, in an article about ermine entering people’s homes. There have been several recent reports of ermine, the name for a short-tailed weasel with its white winter coat, entering homes in Harpswell, Cumberland and Bangor. Weasels are naturally […]
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