Cooperative Extension in York County

Here are the links to your Take Home Review # 3. It will be due 3-week from today on Monday, June 15. If you need more time, due to complications from Covid-19, please let us know. Take Home Review # 3 (word) Take Home Review # 3 (pdf) Again, Congratulations for making it through a […]

Coming into the home stretch!  You all are troopers, dealing with a 3.5 hour class on Zoom! Our next class is:  Gardening with Native Plants with Heather McCargo, Executive Director Wild Seed Project.  Using Newcombe’s Wildflower Guide and Forest Trees of Maine, Frank Wertheim The chapter on Plants for Maine Landscape is pretty extensive, but the […]

This week we will cover Vegetable Gardening in Maine Part II.  This is finishing the  presentation started April 15th, so the ‘handouts’ are already in Box Please review the vegetable chapter of your online manual.  You do not have to read every fact sheet in detail. There is probably more here than you can read in one […]

Hope you’re getting out to enjoy a little sunshine, without the wind!  Here’s some reading to prepare for next week’s class: Pest Management — Insects and Disease in the Home Garden with Clay Kirby, Extension Entomologist and Alicyn Smart, Extension Plant Pathology Specialist. Resources to review for this Week’s Class on Home Garden Entomology (Bugs) and Plant Pathology (Diseases) […]

Thank you all for hanging in there on Zoom with the classes. I know it is harder than in person and that we are all going through a rough patch. It is really nice to stay connected and be able to continue learning as best we can. We certainly understand that we need to be […]

Made it through another week of Zoom class!  Our next week’s class is part 1 of Growing Vegetables in Southern Maine. Please review the vegetable chapter of your online manual.  You do not have to read every fact sheet in detail. There is probably more here than you can read in one week. Focus on what is […]

Good class on Wed, we’re all learning a lot about using zoom! This coming week we will focus on Sustainable Landscape Design and Growing Herbs in Maine with Amy Witt. Homework: Review Designing Your Landscape for Maine. Familiarize yourself with the chapter on Landscape Design and Maintenance 

So far, so good with our online class!  Hope everyone is staying well. This coming week’s class will focus on Growing Tree Fruits in Maine with Renae Moran, Extension Pomology Specialist. Homework: Please review the Tree Fruit chapter of your online manual, including Bulletins, Websites and videos.

Hi All, Well our first MG Zoom Virtual Class went really well all things considered. I was really pleased to see that everyone was able to make the switch and I sensed an appreciation for being together, even if it was only virtually.  We will be adapting this technology and others as we move forward. […]

Hi All, Well the world has certainly changed for us in the past week with more to come. As an MG Community we all have to support each other with, as our Extension Dean and Director, Hannah Carter, wrote yesterday: Real Facts, Clean Hands and Open Hearts. I think everyone in the current class has […]