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6 Maine Pick Your Own Strawberry Farms You Need To Visit Strawberries everywhere! It's a wonderful thing and Maine is experiencing a bumper crop this year, as a matter of fact according to a report by centralmaine.com, many farms are reporting crops that haven't been this large in decades. Just to illustrate how large this years crop is, Maine ranked fourth in the nation behind Vermont, Delaware, and Wisconsin. Not only are the quantity of strawberries way up....the size of the strawberries are extra large this year. To add to that, the strawberry season this year came early due to the mild s...

9 of 9 Luke Sites, owner of Sites Farm in Athens, is seen behind strawberries on Monday. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel David Popp has never seen such a plentiful strawberry crop in his more than 30 years at Popp Farm in Dresden. “The berries are big as plums,” he said, “and that’s no exaggeration.” But business is slow. The coronavirus pandemic was unkind to the farm, which was unable to afford a seasonal, full-time employee. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 103 Glasheen Road, Popp Farm offers pick-your-own strawberries to fit most anyone’s schedule, but customers are not s...

Detroit Lakes Boys & Girls Club enjoys its first harvest from hydroponic garden The first crop is in from the Detroit Lakes Boys & Girls Club's new hydroponic garden — and members enjoyed an ultra-fresh salad featuring club-grown lettuce on Wednesday, May 12. Written By: Vicki Gerdes | × Detroit Lakes Boys & Girls Club members Lydia and Harlem show off the lettuce plants they harvested from the club's new hydroponic garden on Wednesday, May 12. (Submitted photo) Detroit Lakes Boys & Girls Club members and staff will be enjoying the fruits of their own labors this summer, in t...

In addition to being a great neighbor to the university, Gainesville represents a great opportunity for learning. It’s a community where our students learn through real-world experiences and, in turn, serve while they learn. We’ve long understood this at the University of Florida’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), and we’re striving to make learning through service more commonplace. Because CALS is part of the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), CALS students have access to a broad array of off-campus experiences. The UF/IFAS network of faculty, ...