{"id":4972,"date":"2020-04-28T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2020-05-20T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:52:00","slug":"agrability-news-for-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2020\/04\/28\/agrability-news-for-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"AgrAbility News for March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Save the date for the 2020 AgrAbility NTW: November 30 – December 3 in Madison, Wisconsin. The NAP looks forward to seeing you FACE-TO-FACE!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The NAP has also published a webpage dedicated to COVID-19 resources related to disability and agriculture at www.agrability.org\/covid-19<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The AgrAbility webinar “Smart Technology in Agriculture & The Home” has been archived and is available for viewing at www.agrability.org\/online-training\/archived\/webinar-series.<\/a><\/div>\n
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National AgrAbility’s webinars have been categorized according to subject at www.agrability.org\/online-training\/archived\/webinars-by-subject<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Maine News<\/h3>\n

Boots to Bushels (B2B)<\/a> started in January 2020 with sixteen students attending classes on the VA Togus campus in Augusta, Maine, with plans for four months of classroom training covering topics from soil health to crop planning to marketing. In May, six months of practical fieldwork training was planned at the Togus community gardens with the goal of developing a CSA, and building a supportive cohort of beginning veteran farmers. Then, as with the rest of the world, COVID-19 struck, and the VA had to focus on the health of their at-risk veteran population and canceled all recreational therapy programs, including B2B. In an attempt to salvage the learning opportunity, Zoom classes will continue through April and starting in May, seven out of the 16 participants are going to finish out the program at veteran-owned farm, Chase Stream Farm. The students will get the same benefit of getting weekly CSA shares, and gain practical farm and marketing skills. Chase Stream Farm<\/a> is owned by Anne Devin (AgrAbility outreach coordinator) and her husband Tim, both retired USMC.<\/p>\n

\"\"Maine AgrAbility\u2019s Kelley Spencer exhibited agricultural information and assistive technology ideas at the 2020 Brain Injury Association of America, Maine Chapter, Brain Injury Resource Fair on March 2, 2020. This event was part of Brain Injury Awareness month activities. We recently shared this resource on Facebook and Twitter, the message may be helpful to other AgrAbility clients across the US. The #13DayswithBIAA<\/strong><\/a> campaign to support members of our community who are feeling isolated or anxious.<\/p>\n

\"\"On March 5-7, 2020 Maine AgrAbility exhibited FishAbility at the annual Fishermen\u2019s Forum.\u00a0 Many great conversations were had about stress and available resources.\u00a0 We revised our farm stress display to represent fishing industry topics.\u00a0 It was a great conversation starter- What Stresses You Out<\/em>? and the responses were consistent; the \u2018Under 30\u2019 age group said \u2018everything\u2019 stressed hem out, whereas the \u2018Over 50\u2019 age group just chuckled at the question, and said \u2018not much stresses me out anymore\u2019. Must be true then, that with age, comes wisdom.<\/p>\n

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\"\"We shared a new success story on our website<\/a> about a double amputee farmer in Central Maine. After two seasons adjusting to a \u201cnew normal,\u201d Bill is a full partner with Carol on the farm again. \u201cWe are a team,\u201d she said. \u201cMaine AgrAbility got Billy back on his feet. Now he has all the tools he needs\u2014it\u2019s been tremendous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve been networking with our USDA partner NRCS to schedule AgrAbility presentations and increase disability awareness as part of their annual training meetings. The second week of March, we had a Husson University OT student complete their Level 1 fieldwork experience with our AgrAbility team. She was able to spend a few days with different AgrAbility specialists exploring their roles and participate in a staff and advisory council meetings.\u00a0 While a lot of our planned AgrAbility exhibit and education opportunities have been postponed, we are continuing to meet weekly as a team via Zoom, keeping client discussions moving forward and working on developing webinar and presentations for future events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Save the date for the 2020 AgrAbility NTW: November 30 – December 3 in Madison, Wisconsin. The NAP looks forward to seeing you FACE-TO-FACE! The NAP has also published a webpage dedicated to COVID-19 resources related to disability and agriculture at www.agrability.org\/covid-19. The AgrAbility webinar “Smart Technology in Agriculture & The Home” has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"News about AgrAbility","parent":0,"count":258,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":258,"category_description":"News about AgrAbility","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5040,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}