Transcript Putting Knowledge to Work with the People of Maine

Putting knowledge to work
with the people of Maine
www.umext.maine.edu
92 Years!
The University of Maine
UMaine Cooperative Extension
Cooperative Extension:
A Nationwide Network
• USDA Cooperative State
Research, Education, and
Extension Service
(CSREES)
• 100+ land-grant colleges
and universities
• 3150 counties
Smith-Lever Act
• Enacted by Congress in
1914
• Established partnership of
federal, state, and county
governments, which
Androscoggin
brings university
resources to YOUR
COUNTIES
Sagadahoc
UMaine Cooperative Extension:
a three-way federal, state, and
county partnership
Grants,
Contracts
& Special
Funds
USDA
19%
29%
3%
County
Government
The University
of Maine
49%
We use funding from Maine
counties and the University
to match and leverage
support from the United
States Department of
Agriculture, other federal
grantors, state agencies
and private agencies.
UMaine’s
Connection to
the Community
By conducting Extension
programs in every Maine
county, Cooperative
Extension supports
UMaine’s public education
and service role as a landgrant and sea-grant
institution.
UMaine Cooperative Extension
Offers Programs Statewide
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Agriculture
Business & Community
Food & Health
Gardening & Horticulture
Home, Family & Youth
Natural Resources
Pests & Plant Diseases
Safety & Preparedness
The County Extension Act
“…there may be created in each
county or combination of two
counties within the State an
organization known as a “county
extension association,” and its
services available to all residents
of a county. The county extension
is viewed as a unique and
important educational program of
county government.”1
Excerpted from Title 7, Chapter 7 of the Maine
Revised Statutes, §191–§195. (1985)
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Each county office has an
executive committee or
advisory board
Members
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Are local volunteers
Are community residents
Link county needs with university resources
Work with Extension staff on county-specific
programs
Extension Programs in Your Community:
Androscoggin/Sagadahoc Counties
4-H Youth Development
Program
• Works with local youth from Lisbon
Elementary School & Mt. Ararat
Alternative School
• Developing community mapping
projects with 4-H Global Information
System (GIS)/Global Positioning
System (GPS)
4-H: Muddy Spurs 4-H club members participate in
a hands-on workshop.
Extension Programs in Your Community:
Androscoggin/Sagadahoc Counties
Habitat Stewards
TM
• Trains local volunteers to help
save wildlife one backyard at
a time
• First partnership of its type
nationwide
Habitat StewardsTM Program: enhances wildlife
habitat in our yards and communities.
Extension Programs in Your Community:
Androscoggin/Sagadahoc Counties
Women in the Woods
Trains women in
• Woodland stewardship
• Communicating with resource
professionals
• Timber harvesting
• Maple sugaring
• Estate planning
• Forest-related tax laws
Women in the Woods: Associate Extension Professor
Vivianne Holmes works with farmer and woodlot owner
Mary Ann Haxton to determine timber stand inventory.
Extension Programs in Your Community:
Androscoggin/Sagadahoc Counties
Eat Well Nutrition
Education Program
Provides nutrition education
to local limited-income
families
Your Community Extension Office
Androscoggin/Sagadahoc Counties
For more information on programs
UMaine Cooperative Extension
Androscoggin/Sagadahoc
24 Main Street
Lisbon Falls, ME 04252-1505
800-287-1458 (in Maine)
Or 207-353-5550
E-mail: [email protected]
www.umext.maine.edu
Extension Programs Statewide
For information on statewide
programs as well as books and
publications, visit
UMaine Cooperative Extension at
www.umext.maine.edu
or call 1-800-287-0274