Table of Contents 4-H Calendar 4-H Club Happenings State 4-H News Other UMaine Extension Cumberland County News Upcoming in Cumberland County 4-H June 5: Fryeburg Fair Market Lamb Intent due June 7: June Jamboree June 19: CC 4-H Leaders and Volunteers Meeting 7-9 p.m., Online and Gorham Public Works, 80 Huston Road, Gorham June 20: […]
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Table of Contents 4-H Calendar 4-H Club Happenings State 4-H News Other UMaine Extension Cumberland County News Upcoming in Cumberland County 4-H May 1: Paul Merrill 4-H Memorial Fund Applications Due ESE Dairy and Horse Animal Approval Forms Due Working Steer Animal Approval Forms Due May 15: CC 4-H Leaders and Volunteers Meeting, 7:00-9:00 p.m., […]
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Table of Contents 4-H Calendar 4-H Club Happenings State 4-H News Other UMaine Extension Cumberland County News Upcoming in Cumberland County 4-H March 1: Maine 4-H ESE Dairy Team Intent due March 3: Maine 4-H Foundation Scholarships due to County office March 3: Office Hours via Zoom, 7:00-8:00 p.m. March 8: Western/Central Regional Public Speaking […]
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Table of Contents 4-H Calendar 4-H Club Happenings State 4-H News Other UMaine Extension Cumberland County News Upcoming in Cumberland County 4-H February 19: FUN WITH 4-H, 2:00-3:00 PM, Grade: K-6th, Windham Public Library, 217 Windham Center Rd., Windham February 20: Fashion Revue Projects due to the 4-H Office February 22: Fashion Revue at Little […]
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Garden Update Welcome fall! The days are shortening and the asters are popping! September brought the late summer weather of our dreams with warm, sunny days and cool nights. Our annual flowers and vegetables were very grateful for the irrigation systems at Tidewater which got us through the unusually dry August and September. So far, we […]
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Garden Update Been hot enough for ya? That fast and hot part of summer has really taken a hold and here we find ourselves in August! How’d that happen? Long days have our vegetable crops, annual flowers and perennials taking off. The monarchs have appeared along with fast growing weeds and hungry deer jumping the […]
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Garden Update Catching up after the late season winter storms, things are finally full steam ahead at Tidewater Farm! Our young garlic endured two rounds of snow and ice and is looking beautiful . We are sowing early season crops and our onions are in the ground. May also brings the first […]
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December 2023 Garden Update The growing season officially came to an end with our final planting in mid-November. Our friends from Khmer Maine and 4-H joined us as we celebrated the beginning of our partnership by planting garlic and eating delicious treats, such as homemade num kroch (or nom kroch), a traditional Cambodian snack. The […]
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As the days grow colder and shorter, we begin to reflect on the season and make notes for next year. Like so many gardeners, we experienced a difficult start to the season with all the rain we received in June and early July. This year, we started many of our flower and vegetable seedlings indoors […]
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This year’s plant sale features a great selection of annual flowers for bedding and containers. Selections include wave petunias and geraniums in several delicious colors, white alyssum, blue ageratum, impatiens of varying shades, tall and short marigolds, blue or red salvia, snapdragons, mix verbena, and the favorite for every garden, zinnias. All come to us […]
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