The information at the links below will provide context, guidance and answers to many of your questions. And many area nurseries and garden centers offer native plants and advice, with some centers specializing in native plants, so call and ask. The importance of pollinators: What is a pollinator? – Pollinators (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) […]
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Laurie Bowen speaking at gardening series
Cooperative Extension Community Education Assistant Laurie Bowen, will be the guest speaker, and give an overview of all the great resources the University of Maine Cooperative Extension has to offer.
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Local 4-H to participate in National Youth Science Day
LEWISTON — University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will join more than 150,000 young people nationwide taking part in the 11th annual 4-H National Youth Science Day challenge throughout October. This year’s challenge, “Code Your World,” was developed by Google and West Virginia University Extension Service to get youth involved in computer science through hands-on activities […]
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Extension offers vegetable gardening workshop FARMINGTON — University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a vegetable gardening workshop twice this month in Franklin County. The workshop will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in the Wilton Town Office meeting room, 158 Weld Road, and at the same time on Wednesday, April […]
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Cooperative Extension offers 'Cooking for Crowds' class
PARIS — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer “Cooking for Crowds – Food Safety Training for Volunteer Cooks” from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Nov. 7, at the Oxford County UMaine Extension, 9 Olson Road, South Paris. The workshop will offer up-to-date information on how to handle, transport, store and prepare foods safely for […]
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Cooperative Extension offering workshops on 'Preserving the Harvest'
FALMOUTH — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering “Preserving the Harvest” workshops throughout the summer. Upcoming workshops include: “Preserving Strawberry Jam”: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, July 6, University of Maine Regional Learning Center, 75 Clearwater Dr., Suite 104, Falmouth. “Pressure Canning Demonstration: Green Beans”: 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, July 6, Naples […]
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David Handley, One branch, one berry, one plant at a time
MONMOUTH — David Handley is the state’s strawberry expert, one of the state’s sweet corn experts and likely to be the state’s hops expert — as soon as he bones up on hops. He jokes that he’s still not entirely sure how that crop fell to him. “I’m desperately trying to learn how to be […]
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Six-year-old UMaine bedbug video goes viral, 1.3 million views and counting
Enter the bedbug. In the past two days, UMaine’s almost six-year-old video “How to Look for and Avoid Bedbugs in Hotel or Motel Rooms” has been viewed 800,000 times after the website Lifehacker picked it up and Yahoo Travel and Fox News followed suit. “Then it went into the Facebook world,” said John Rebar, executive […]