Lunch: Summer picnic with meat and vegetarian options. Cost: Free with donations accepted Pesticide Credits: 3 Registration is required.

  Cost: Free with donations accepted, pizza provided Pesticide Credits: 2 Topics Covered: Pre and post emergent herbicide stacking and fine leaf sheep fescue management with Josh Stubbs and Lily Calderwood, flea beetle and span worm monitoring and management with Phil Fanning, and mummy berry disease management with Seanna Annis. Registration is required.

This year’s big field day will feature a morning of IPM with UMaine researchers, and burgers on the grill for lunch, followed by an exciting afternoon.  Register here Program Description 9:00-12:00 Pest and Crop Management (2 pesticide credits) Starts in Lower Field 9:00-10:00: Weed Management (Lily Calderwood and Josh Stubbs) Tractor spray coverage demonstration Herbicide […]

In the morning, we will take a rain or shine field tour of the farm stopping to highlight current research projects. Lunch will be provided. In the afternoon, there will be two or three topic specific breakout sessions to choose from. Pesticide credits: TBD  

UMaine Extension and Blueberry Hill Farm staff including Caragh Fitzgerald, Lily Calderwood, and Josh Stubbs will walk the group through proper sprayer calibration and demonstration. Then Seanna Annis will talk about Disease IPM as time allows. This workshop is applicable to both organic and conventional growers of fruit and vegetables. Pesticide Credits: 2