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Headshot courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Peter Loewer has had quite a life. He was headed for a career in graphics and art after graduating college, but a computer error sent him to the United States Army as a cryptographer…
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Photo by Sam Schipani Scientists may have found a new way to promote crop growth in degrading agricultural conditions: by looking to the roots. A new study conducted by the University of California at Riverside revealed that a…
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Sugar maple trees at Coopers Maple Products in Windham, Maine. | Photo by Abigail Curtis Temperature plays an important role in determining where plants can and can’t grow. In fact, growing zones are determined primarily by minimum…
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Mealworm in an oat substrate. | Photo courtesy of Robert Nathan Allen & Little Herds Good news: if your mealworms eat something nasty, you can still feed them to your chickens — even if they’re munching on plastic laced with toxic…
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Farmers in the Midwest are increasingly looking to older model tractors to avoid the software issues of modern tractors.|Photo by Julia Bayly It turns out the nation’s farmers are just discovering what northern Maine farmers have known…
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Image by Julia Schwab from Pixabay Denmark sourced almost half its electricity consumption from wind power last year, setting a record in 2019 for its wind power production. The country received 47 percent of its electricity from wind…
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Time Magazine It took a 16-year-old girl from Sweden to do what millions around the planet could not: Get us talking about and making real efforts to address the climate crisis. For her work, Time Magazine has named Greta Thunberg as…
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A slice of mincemeat cheesecake pie made by Maine food historian Sandy Oliver. | Photo by Sandy Oliver Another day, another Internet kerfuffle: on Monday, U.S.-based food website The Spruce posted a recipe for a mincemeat and apple tart…
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Photo by Gabor Degre When trick-or-treaters show up at your door this Halloween, what are you going to give them? Odds are good that you planned to pass out candy, but it wasn’t always that way. When trick-or-treating only gained…
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Whether delivered loose or stacked, there are strict Maine laws defining the size of a cord of firewood. In this 2018 photo at Rusty Metal Farm, the wood had to be stacked after delivery.| Photo by Julia Bayly Sarah and Seth Cottrell…
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The tiny lava of the Swede midge can destroy cruciferous crops. For the first time the insect has been confirmed in Maine. | Photo by David Fuller State and University of Maine officials are warning farmers and gardeners to be on the…
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Photo by Gabor Degre In the United States, many consider the level of student debt for higher education to be a national crisis. Increasingly, legislators and political figures seek solutions to student loan debt. Young farmers,…
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