Kelly Hamshaw was interviewed by Vermont Public and Seven Days about the impacts of the recent Vermont floods on mobile home parks.
UVM Extension’s Heather Darby and Vern Grubinger were quoted in a Newport Daily Express article about managing flooded produce, crops, and pastures.
Heather Darby has been traveling around Vermont evaluating flooded farm fields for post-flood damage. She was interviewed for a VTDigger article about this work.
An article in Seven Days mentioned the Agroecology and Extension (AX) Fellowship Team that mobilized their people power in support of Intervale farmers, especially the Intervale Community Farm and Diggers’ Mirth Farm Collective.
Vegetable farms have it the worst in a flood, losing their harvest for a year, stated UVM Extension’s Joshua Faulkner, in an article from Heatmap about “biblical” floods coming for America’s farms.
Extension’s Vern Grubinger was interviewed for a Salon article on value-based food purchasing.
Extension Associate Professor Kris Stepanuck was quoted for a WCAX story about the Burlington sewage leak after the July floods.
The Times Argus listed UVM Extension’s soil testing for flood-impacted soils in Vermont.
The Gardens at Jeffords Hall were noted in the nationally-distributed ShareAmerica article titled, Planting to help pollinators becomes popular in the U.S.
UVM is recognized as a “Bee Campus USA” by the Xerces Society.
Extension’s Vern Grubinger discussed this year’s blueberry crop for a WCAX story about blueberries being ripe for picking now.
Emeritus Professor Paul Kindstedt was quoted in an article from The Word on Cheese Culture, reflecting on the 2023 “Cheese Camp.” He warned that, a coalition of activist groups, special interest groups, and commercial enterprises are using social issues to move young people away from dairy products.”
Emeritus Professor Paul S. Kindstedt, who retired from UVM in June 2023 after 37 years of service, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Cheese Society, the society’s highest award, at their annual meeting in Des Moines Iowa on July 20th.
The New York Post quoted Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences’ Kelsey Rose about fake “girl dinner” trend outrage.
Animal and Veterinary Sciences’ Joao Castro was mentioned in The Delmara Farmer as a research contributor to a study about precision technology for early diagnosis of the calf-killing bovine respiratory disease.
- Story also appeared in Agro & Food Processing
- Swift Telecast
- Penn State Research
The Vermont Consumer Assistance Program and, in part, its emphasis on student-learning and service through the University of Vermont were recently featured in the Herald of Randolph.
The Addison Independent announced the UVM Extension Northwest Crops and Soils Program annual Field Day on July 27 at Borderview Farm in Alburgh.
- Also in Morning Ag Clips
UVM Extension Plant Pathologist Ann Hazelrigg warns about wet weather and mold development in a Times Argus article.
The Morning Star reviewed Community Development and Applied Economics Lecturer Ben Dangl’s new book, “A World Where Many Worlds Fit.”
- Reviewed in CounterPunch also.
Extension Assistant Professor of Community Development Ike Leslie was interviewed for a story in Business New Hampshire Magazine about his co-authored research on food insecurity and hunger among LGBTQ+ populations in New England.
- Also in New England News Press
Theres no such thing as a disaster-resistant place anymore. Emeritus CDAE Professor Chris Koliba was interviewed for an article in Vox about Vermont’s habitability in the face of climate change.
The Bennington Banner announced that registration is now open for UVM Extension’s Vermont Master Composting course.
UVM Extension Master Gardener Debra Benoit wrote for the Mountain Times about how to plan a rose garden in hardiness zones from 3 to 11.