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Cuba: Four Students, One Professor and a Complex Food System
- Island Agriculture

April 11, 2016
Young Energy for an Older City
- UMass Design Center Helping to Reinvigorate Springfield

February 9, 2016
University of Massachusetts Cranberry Station
- World class research

January 4, 2016
Introducing Andy Danylchuk, the UMass Amherst Fish Guy
- Fish are in hot water

December 3, 2015
Joseph Troll Turf Research Facility, South Deerfield, Massachusetts
- Environmentally-sound turf management through research

November 16, 2015
Cold Spring Orchard Research and Education Center in Belchertown, Mass.
- Spotlight on the Commonwealth’s Research Orchard

October 15, 2015
Unearthing the Secrets of Food
- How Four Award-Winning UMass Scientists Bring Invention to the Table

September 9, 2015
Golf Goes Green
- UMass Amherst Studies Organic Golf Course Management

August 18, 2015
South Deerfield Crop & Animal Research and Education Center
- Spotlight on South Deerfield Farm

August 10, 2015
Assessing Stream Crossings and Culverts in 13 States
- UMass Amherst hosts regional stream-crossing database

June 22, 2015
Tidmarsh Restoration Project & Living Observatory
- Plymouth’s New Environmental Refuge

June 16, 2015
UMass Farms: Resources for Education, Research and Outreach
- Spotlight on Hadley Farm

June 3, 2015
Expanding New England Winter Farmers’ Markets
- Popular and easy

May 4, 2015
Tick-borne Illnesses on Cape Cod
- Ticks are back

April 28, 2015
Stories from the Cape
- Cape Cod Cooperative Extension: Alive and Well

March 12, 2015
UMass Extension Inaugurates New Program in Energy
- Massachusetts Energy Extension Initiative (MAEEI)

March 11, 2015
What Motivates Someone to Conserve Water in Their Yard?
- The (over) use of domestic water outdoors

March 10, 2015
Have a Great Food Product Idea? Ready to Grow Your Business?
- Product Development Considerations: Beyond the Basics

December 18, 2014
A Taste of Home, Fresh from the Farm
- The Intersection of Urban Agriculture and Nutrition, Extension Builds on Immigrant Past

November 3, 2014
UMass Extension: At Your Service for 100 Years
- Three Retired Cooperative Extension Agents Offer Snapshots of the Past

September 2, 2014
Tomography: A Tool to Read Trees That Predict the Future
- Tree diagnostics

July 28, 2014
Why the New Name?
- Why Have We Added “Food and the Environment” To Our Name?

June 30, 2014
Transboundary Water
- Looking through the Eyes of a Social Scientist

June 16, 2014
Tree Planting
- New Methods Take Root

May 19, 2014
Ken Nicewicz, UMass Volunteer Extraordinaire
- Dedicated, informed and passionate advocate for agriculture

April 24, 2014
Acid Rain Monitoring Project
- Thirty Years of Volunteer Efforts to Track the Problem

April 2, 2014
Developing Quality Chinese Herbs in the Northeast
- Can local farmers or herbalists grow these plants?

March 19, 2014
Putting Superfoods to the Test
- Why finish your vegetables? UMass researchers are about to find out.

January 21, 2014
Seeing the Forest for the Tree
- UMass researchers give family woodland owners the tools for stewardship

January 20, 2014
Keeping Native Bees Abuzz
- UMass Researchers Team with Cranberry Growers to Study the “Perfect System"

December 13, 2013
Taking a Walk on the Wild Side
- “Riverwalk” Helps Demystify Flood Damage from Hurricane Irene

November 20, 2013
21st century 4-H
- Still About Helping Youth Thrive

October 30, 2013
Sustainability Takes Root in Student Farms
- At UMass Amherst, locally grown isn't just on the menu—it's on the syllabus.

August 28, 2013
SNAP-Ed Programs
- Helps People Make the Most of their Resources

August 26, 2013
Impatiens Plants Attacked by Downy Mildew
- Downy Mildew on Impatiens Plants

June 4, 2013
Growing Nutrient-Dense Vegetables
- Working to Curb Malnutrition From the Ground Up

January 28, 2013
Stewarding the Land
- Past Present and Future of Fifty Acres in Amherst

January 3, 2013
New Wine from Old Vines
- From Cold Spring to Quabbin’s Edge

November 13, 2012
Research, Fieldwork, Scholarship
- New Extension Framework Bridges the Gaps

September 25, 2012
Learning Born of Loss
- Replanting Cities for an Energy-Smart Future

September 25, 2012
Turf Wars
- How UMass Amherst Scientists Are Beating a Recalcitrant Fungus at Its Own Game

September 25, 2012
Forty Wineries and Counting
- Winemaking is a Growing Business in Massachusetts

March 7, 2012
Closing the Gap From Farm to Plate
- When families eat fresh and local, everyone wins

March 7, 2012
Aspiring backyard farmers learn best practices
- UMass Center for Agriculture’s series of “Mass Aggie” seminars

March 7, 2012
Agricultural innovation is sprouting in Massachusetts
- sometimes in unexpected places

March 7, 2012
Look back at a career, and an enduring commitment
- Long-time Extension educator retires

March 7, 2012
Boot Camp for the Citizen Planner
- CPTC provides tools for local planning, zoning and conservation officials

March 7, 2012
Farms Rooted in Communities
- Local sustainable agriculture is thriving in Massachusetts

March 7, 2012
4-H Green Giants
- Focusing on green and the environment

March 7, 2012
Finding Protection in a Predator
- Fighting the European winter moth

March 7, 2012

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