{"id":3265,"date":"2023-07-26T20:34:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T00:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2023-07-26T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:05:22","slug":"cals-in-the-news-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/cals-in-the-news-july-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"CALS in the News-July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Megaphone<\/p>\n

Kelly Hamshaw was interviewed by Vermont Public<\/a> and Seven Days<\/a> about the impacts of the recent Vermont floods on mobile home parks.<\/p>\n

UVM Extension’s Heather Darby and Vern Grubinger were quoted in a Newport Daily Express<\/a> article about managing flooded produce, crops, and pastures.<\/p>\n

Heather Darby has been traveling around Vermont evaluating flooded farm fields for post-flood damage. She was interviewed for a VTDigger<\/a> article about this work.<\/p>\n

An article in Seven Days<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> about “biblical” floods coming for America’s farms.<\/p>\n

Extension’s Vern Grubinger was interviewed for a Salon<\/a> article on value-based food purchasing.<\/p>\n

Extension Associate Professor Kris Stepanuck was quoted for a WCAX<\/a> story about the Burlington sewage leak after the July floods.<\/p>\n

The Times Argus<\/a> listed UVM Extension’s soil testing for flood-impacted soils in Vermont.<\/p>\n

The Gardens at Jeffords Hall were noted in the nationally-distributed ShareAmerica<\/a> article titled, Planting to help pollinators becomes popular in the U.S.<\/p>\n

UVM is recognized as a “Bee Campus USA” by the Xerces Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Extension’s Vern Grubinger discussed this year’s blueberry crop for a WCAX<\/a> story about blueberries being ripe for picking now.<\/p>\n

Emeritus Professor Paul Kindstedt was quoted in an article from The Word on Cheese Culture<\/a>, 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.”<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, the society’s highest award, at their annual meeting in Des Moines Iowa on July 20th.<\/p>\n

The New York Post<\/a> quoted Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences’ Kelsey Rose about fake “girl dinner” trend outrage.<\/p>\n

Animal and Veterinary Sciences’ Joao Castro was mentioned in The Delmara Farmer<\/a> as a research contributor to a study about precision technology for early diagnosis of the calf-killing bovine respiratory disease.<\/p>\n