The latest happenings from the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
With the warming temps and growing season kicking off, UVM Extension’s Pollinator Program has new resources for use about crop pollinators and how to support them in select Vermont grown crops. Continue reading “Pollinator Fact Sheets Spotlight Bees Important for Fruit & Vegetable Crops”
New research on rural New Englanders shows that gardening, hunting, fishing and other HWFP activities are important tools for maintaining food security through extreme events, such as pandemics or climate change events. The paper was originally published in the journal Scientific Reports, and includes UVM CALS researchers Meredith T. Niles, Ashley C. McCarthy, Sam Bliss, Emily H. Belarmino, Scott C. Merrill, Farryl Bertmann, Rebecca Mitchell.
UVM Extension Pollinator Support Specialist Laura Johnson and Extension Vegetable and Berry Specialist Vern Grubinger have been awarded a $97,863 grant from the Northeast Risk Management Education Program for the project, Cover Crop Sequences to Support Pollinators and Soil Health on Diversified Vegetable Farms. Continue reading “Grant to Study Pollinators and Cover Cropping Awarded”
At UVM, the Community Development and Applied Economics 1010 class has taken on the challenge of aiding endangered native pollinators such as:
Continue reading “CDAE Students Support Pollinators with Bug Hotels”
Jaquish grew up in the northern foothills of the Adirondacks. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from SUNY Potsdam and a Master of Fine Arts from Ohio University.
After college, Jaquish returned to the Northeast Kingdom, where she had spent summers as a kid. Continue reading “CALS New Hires-June 2023”