“The Ellsworth American” interviewed David Yarborough and Frank Drummond for a story about blueberry growers ordering fewer honeybees and bumblebees to pollinate this year’s crop. Homer Woodward, vice president of Jasper Wyman & Son in Milbridge, said he’ll order fewer bees to make up for the drop in last year’s crop and because he’ll be […]
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Ivan J. Fernandez will address “Maine’s Climate Future – How Do We Respond?” at 11 a.m. Friday, March 17 at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Fernandez is a soil scientist with the School of Forest Resources, the School of Food and Agriculture, the Maine Climate and Agriculture Network, and the Climate Change Institute.
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Mary Ellen Camire, professor of food science and human nutrition, was an expert source in an Ars Technica story about a recent CBC piece that indicated the chicken in Subway sandwiches could be about 50 percent chicken. “The CBC’s story would not dissuade me from getting a chicken sandwich at Subway if I wanted one,” […]
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The spring 2017 mini-symposium featured short, 8-10 minute talks by some of UMaine’s graduate and Honors students working on aspects of “agriculture and climate change”, broadly defined in this context to encompass related topics in agriculture, aquaculture, and the environment. To view or download a copy of each presentation, click the presentation’s title. The February […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about a new food studies program at the University of Southern Maine that began in January. The program aims to teach students how to tackle the scientific, environmental, social, economic and political questions facing food systems using an interdisciplinary approach, according to the […]
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The Portland Press Herald spoke with current and former University of Maine horticulturists for a “Maine Gardener” column on how advances in DNA analysis are influencing the plant naming decisions that take place every six years at the International Botanical Congress. “Every once in a while there comes an enormous breakthrough that breaks the system […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in the Portland Press Herald article, “Potato chips you can feel better about eating,” as part of the “Green Plate Special” column. According to the article, potato chips are one of the least sustainable snack foods, requiring up to 90 gallons of water to move a spud from bud […]
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In a story on cool majors at Maine colleges and universities, the Sun Journal included the turfgrass science concentration added three years ago, as part of the environmental horticulture major at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture. Students choosing to pursue the turfgrass concentration spend their senior year studying at the Stockbridge […]
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Mary Ellen Camire, a professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Maine, spoke with the U.S. News & World Report for an article about the health benefits of vinegar. Grain and fruit vinegars, both of which are fermented, possess beneficial physiological effects, including antibacterial and antioxidant properties and even some anti-cancer […]
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David Yarborough, a professor in the School of Food and Agriculture and wild blueberry specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Ellsworth American for a story on the possibility of selling surplus blueberries from the 2016 crop to public schools in Maine. Based on state tax receipts, the 2016 yield could […]
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