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New England Vegetable & Fruit Conference

November 18, 2024

New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference December 17-19, 2024 DoubleTree by Hilton Manchester, NH TREE FRUIT PROGRAM TUESDAY morning, December 17, 2024 APPLES I (9:30 AM, Pemigawasset, 2 credits) Research-Driven Solutions for Improved Temperate Fruit Production and Profitability Tracy Leskey, USDA, Appalachian Fruit Research Station, WV Thinning Apples with Metamitron and Accede John Cline, University of Guelph, Canada Common Sense Planning for Climate Change Impacts on... Read more »
How apple farmers are thinking about climate change this fall

October 2, 2024

Listen to Al and Jon discuss the joys and challenges of apple growing in Massachusetts. https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2024/10/02/apple-season-fall-new-england-climate-change
Catherine Coleman Flowers Keynote for Black History Month

February 14, 2024

Join us on Thursday, February 29th at 5:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom for the culminating event of our Black History Month celebration: a keynote address by Catherine Coleman Flowers, internationally recognized environmental activist, critically acclaimed author of “Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret,” and Vice Chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Flowers has brought attention to the largely invisible problem of inadequate waste and... Read more »
State Grant Empowers Arts and Culture Nonprofits to Ignite Clean Energy and Climate Action

December 6, 2023

AMHERST, Massachusetts – A groundbreaking collaboration between Western Mass arts and culture nonprofits and UMass Amherst Extension units has been awarded a substantial grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) to spearhead a transformative climate action project, entitled Clean Energy in the Cultural Sector. This dynamic partnership aims to address pressing environmental challenges, accelerate clean energy adoption, and water the seeds of a resilient, low-carbon arts and... Read more »
UMass Extension Vegetable Program

July 28, 2022

Climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic toll. Increasingly volatile weather trends. These are some of the significant challenges facing farmers today, and UMass Extension's Agriculture Program is here to help, whether it be through statewide education programs, visits to farms for technical assistance, applied research, or its periodic Vegetable Notes newsletter. Genevieve Higgins, an educator in the Extension Agriculture Program’s Vegetable team, thinks about Extension’s... Read more »