Cooperative Extension in Piscataquis County

DOVER-FOXCROFT, ME— Small-Scale Livestock Care is the latest program in the You Can series.  It will be held Thursday, March 1st from 6:00 pm- 8:30 pm at the Extension Office, 165 East Main Street, Dover-Foxcroft. Cost is $5 and you can register through PVAEC by calling 564-6525 or online at http://bit.ly/pyoucan. Livestock can be a […]

DEXTER, ME— Beginning Beekeeping is the latest program in the You Can series.  It will be held Monday, March 5th from 7:00 pm- 8:00 pm at Dexter Regional High School in Dexter. Cost is $10 and you can register through PVAEC by calling 564-6525 or online at http://bit.ly/pyoucan. What does it take to keep bees? […]

You Can Program Series DOVER-FOXCROFT, ME— Slice It, Salt It, Stomp It! is the latest program in the You Can series. It will be held Tuesday, February 7th from 6-8 pm at SeDoMoCha in Dover-Foxcroft. Cost is $10 and you can register through PVAEC by calling 564-6525 or online at the PVAEC website. Even though […]

A Bangor Daily News website posting on the GrowME project to garden and farm with children in kindergarten through grade three noted that UMaine Piscataquis County Extension will also take part in the effort. Local volunteers will work with teachers to schedule an agricultural activity in their classrooms during Maine Agricultural Week, March 12-16.

Farmers who are planning to direct market their farm products need to learn how to contact their potential customers.  Eighty-seven to ninety-five percent of people younger than 50 years have access to the Internet.  If farmers are not trying to contact their customers using email, websites, Facebook, blogs, Tweets, etc. are missing a large potential […]