{"id":6994,"date":"2021-08-16T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/?p=6994"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:35:34","slug":"agrability-news-for-july-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2021\/08\/16\/agrability-news-for-july-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"AgrAbility News for July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maine AgrAbility News<\/h2>\n

\"workersMaine AgrAbility\u2019s Boots-2-Bushels continued with its monthly in-person workshops.\u00a0 In July, the group met at Stonecipher Farm in Bowdoinham to learn about no-till farming practices.\u00a0 The hands-on learning is proving to be a successful learning method.<\/p>\n

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\"fishermanOur most recent article in the Commercial Fisheries News<\/i> is about fishing and energy conservation. Commercial fishing involves working in harsh environments and being in physically and mentally strenuous situations. Energy Conservation can help; it\u2019s the practice of examining tasks and structuring them to minimize muscle fatigue, joint stress, and pain by using your body efficiently and ergonomically. https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2021\/07\/26\/fishability-for-maine-fishermen-energy-conservation\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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We have started a new blog from a collection of notes gathered by AgrAbility staffer Ketra Crosson, OTR\/L from her time spent tending a raised bed during the pandemic last year. The posts are to provide insight on raised bed gardening, as a first-person perspective from an occupational therapist. Read the first two posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Anne Devin, Maine AgrAbility\u2019s veteran outreach coordinator, received the NACAA state Search for Excellence award in the Young, Beginning, or Small Farmers\/Ranchers category. Anne gave a presentation as part of the 2021 NACAA conference on AgrAbility\u2019s Boots-to-Bushels program.\"people<\/p>\n

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To celebrate the return to in-person programming. six Maine AgrAbility staff participated in the ultimate professional development opportunity on the Kennebec River this week facing the challenge of Class IV rapids together! More pictures on our facebook page.<\/p>\n

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Used primarily in rotational grazing, TumbleWheel Rolling Electric-Fence Posts<\/a><\/b>, which look like the spokes of a wheel with electric wire running through the center hub, allow one to relocate an entire fence line without having to turn off the power, pull out, move, or re-sink the posts, then turn the power back on.\u00a0When just one or both ends of the fence are moved, all the wheels roll along.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maine AgrAbility News Maine AgrAbility\u2019s Boots-2-Bushels continued with its monthly in-person workshops.\u00a0 In July, the group met at Stonecipher Farm in Bowdoinham to learn about no-till farming practices.\u00a0 The hands-on learning is proving to be a successful learning method.   Our most recent article in the Commercial Fisheries News is about fishing and energy conservation. […]<\/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-6994","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\/6994","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=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions\/7002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}