Pamela Hargest, a horticultural professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was a recent guest on Maine Public‘s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show addressed listener questions about summer gardening, including tips on planting, weeding, pruning and picking. The program was posted online along with UMaine Extension resources — a plant identification submission form and […]
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The Penobscot Times advanced the August star show lineup at the University of Maine’s Emera Astronomy Center. Shows will include “Black Holes” at 2 p.m. Aug. 2; “Dream to Fly” at 7 p.m. Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30; “Coldplay: Sky Full of Stars” at 9 p.m. Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30; […]
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The Lincoln County News spoke with David Handley, a vegetable and small fruit specialist and cooperating professor of horticulture with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for a report on this year’s strawberry season. Strawberry farmers in Lincoln County are reporting a late and short season that is already coming to a close, the article states. […]
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A center at the University of Maine is offering additive metal manufacturing services and training to facilitate the adoption of 3D metal printing in businesses around the state. The Center for Additive Manufacturing of Metals (CAMM), based at the Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) on the Orono campus, focuses on the process of fusing small metal […]
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Hello Homestead, whose parent company is the Bangor Daily News, and WABI (Channel 5) featured GPS Cows, a collaborative project involving the University of Maine, in which high school students build cow collars with built-in global positioning systems, then collect, analyze and present data about grazing ruminants. “Large-scale farming is increasingly digital,” said Colt Knight, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Griffin Dill and Thomas Rounsville about testing done at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab, which is part of the Pest Management Unit within the Cooperative Extension Diagnostic and Research Laboratory. Maine residents can have ticks tested for pathogens for $15 per sample. “We can get a good idea […]
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Morning Ag Clips and The Piscataquis Observer posted a University of Maine Cooperative Extension release about the Aug. 6 Food Preservation Hands-on Workshop at the Piscataquis County office, 165 East Main St., Dover-Foxcroft. Learn to can and freeze garden vegetables and how to use a water bath canner to preserve pickles, jam and vegetables. For […]
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The Penobscot Times ran a University of Maine media release about two gallery exhibitions that run through Sept. 20 at Lord Hall Gallery. UMaine assistant professor of art Giles Timms’ exhibit is titled “touch my human.” Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, an artist living in Seal Cove, Maine, is exhibiting paintings and mixed media titled “The Painter […]
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CentralMaine.com and Lancaster Farming published a University of Maine Cooperative Extension media release announcing a free Swine 101 seminar being presented in multiple locations statewide. Colt Knight, UMaine Extension assistant professor and state livestock specialist, will talk about breed selection, reproductive information, nutrition, fencing, housing and meat yield. CentralMaine.com also published a Cooperative Extension release about […]
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Bob Steneck will present “Marine Ecosystems that Trump Climate Change: Seas of Good News in an Ocean of Worry” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 26, in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Despite challenges that marine ecosystems face because of climate change, the UMaine marine ecologist says it’s “too […]
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