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REGION University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar for home gardeners on garden preparation to deter weeds from 6–7:15 p.m., May 12.
“Preparing Your Garden Site: Getting Ahead of Weeds” will cover practices such as tarping, deep tillage, double-digging, sheet mulching and raised beds. Nick Rowley, UNH Extension food and agriculture field specialist, will lead the workshop.
Registration is required; a sliding scale program fee is optional. Register on the event webpage to attend live or receive a link to the recording. This is the third in a six-part spring gardening webinar series offered every other Wednesday through June for Maine and New Hampshire gardeners. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact Pamela Hargest, 207.781.6099; [email protected]
Hummingbird migration season is upon us, and a slew of sightings of the ruby-throated breed have already occurred across New England.
Humingbirdcentral.com tracks sightings of the magical fluttering birds across the country, as they move north after spending the winter in Central America or Mexico.
Male hummingbirds can arrive in the U.S. as early as February at their breeding grounds in the southern portion of the country, before later coming north in the spring.
Representing single sightings, hummingbirds have already been spotted as north as Glover, Vermont and Machias, Maine over the course of April, signaling to a slightly earlier migration than usual. Even people in Nova Scotia have already reported hummingbird sightings, not expecting their arrival until around Mother s Day.
Maine AgrAbility, dedicated to addressing chronic health conditions and disabilities for those in agriculture, also offers resources for fishermen and women to help address issues affecting their health, well-being and productivity.
Maine FishAbility is now offering monthly articles and stories about common health issues and resources for those in Maineâs fishing community. The most recent article, âFishermen and Back Pain,â is available on the program webpage and also published in the Commercial Fisheries News April issue. Also available is the March article, âFishAbility for Maine Fishermen.â
Maine AgrAbility, a collaborative project of University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Alpha One, is dedicated to helping farmers, fishermen and forest workers work safely and more productively. For more information, contact Leilani Carlson, 207.944.1533; leilani.carlson@maine.edu.
Maine AgrAbility has designed fuel identification stickers for use on farm tractors to help prevent potential mechanical issues and production downtime if the wrong fuel is mistakenly used.
Request free fuel identification stickers and view all available safety stickers on the Maine AgrAbility website. For more information about the program, call 207.944.1533 or email maine.agrability@maine.edu.
Maine AgrAbility, a nonprofit collaboration of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Alpha One
, assists farmers, fishermen and forest workers to overcome disabilities, injuries or other barriers so they can continue to work safely and productively in agriculture.
This initiative is supported by a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under sponsored project number 2018-41590-28715.