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Cooperative Extension: New Farmers

ServSafe® Certification Course and Exam

University of Maine Cooperative Extension can help you achieve your ServSafe® Food Protection Manager Certification. This nationally-recognized certification is for anyone working in the food industry, including non-profit organizations. UMaine Extension offers an 8-hour ServSafe® training using the latest ServSafe® Manager Book, 7th Edition Revised, and exam proctoring. For more information and registration, visit the […]

$150

Maine Farm Sitters Course

For more information about the course and to register, visit the Maine Farm Sitters Course page. *Please note that the course has five scheduled zoom meetings as well as two in person farm visits. The two farm visits will be from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

$50

Feathered Homestead: A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Backyard Chickens in Maine

Are you new to keeping chickens, or have you been keeping chickens and want to learn more? Join Dr. Colt W. Knight, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Livestock Specialist and Mrs. Ashley, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, for a 2 hour "egg-citing" educational program on brooding chicks at home and raising laying hens in Maine. […]

$12

Feathered Homestead: A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Backyard Chickens in Maine

Are you new to keeping chickens, or have you been keeping chickens and want to learn more? Join Dr. Colt W. Knight, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Livestock Specialist and Mrs. Ashley, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, for a 2 hour "egg-citing" educational program on brooding chicks at home and raising laying hens in Maine. […]

$12

QuickBooks for Farms – Intermediate

Online

SCORE Maine and University of Maine Cooperative Extension are pleased to offer this QuickBooks workshop series tailored to small farms and agriculture businesses. This free, single-session intermediate workshop will cover recording fixed assets & depreciation, recording new loans & payments, reconciling year-end loan balances with lenders and using journal entries in QuickBooks Online. QuickBooks will […]

Free

Feathered Homestead: A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Backyard Chickens in Maine

Are you new to keeping chickens, or have you been keeping chickens and want to learn more? Join Dr. Colt W. Knight, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Livestock Specialist and Mrs. Ashley, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, for a 2 hour "egg-citing" educational program on brooding chicks at home and raising laying hens in Maine. […]

$12

Maine Meat Cutting School

UMaine Hitchner Hall Orono, Maine

A Three-Day Course in Professional Meat Cutting/Processing The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is working with the School of Food and Agriculture, the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, and […]

$500

Maine Sheep and Goat School

Wolfe's Next Center 184 Burnett Road, Freeport, Maine

New to sheep or goats? This workshop covers important topics for successful sheep and goat ownership and production. University of Maine Cooperative Extension is working with Maine Department of Agriculture, […]

$50 – $120
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