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Tree Fodder Seminar July 10-16

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Boosting Climate Resilience and Biodiversity in Perennial Farm ecosystems through use of Air Meadow Pollarding.

July 10 -16 (with partial attendance invited), at 3 Streams Farm in Belfast, Maine

Traditional Air Meadow pruning cycles are aimed at creating accessible native tree forms for harvest of high quality animal fodder. These methods also enhance bush and ground browse layers, provide nutrients to pasture plants, fix more carbon, increase tree longevity, preserve broader forest gene pools of tree individuals per area, and increase habitat diversity and species counts.
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Deworming Ruminants

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Free Presentation, June 23, 2016 – What Sheep, Goat and Cattle Producers Ought to know about Dewormers

A free meeting led by Dr. Jim Miller, veterinarian and parasitology researcher from the Louisiana State University Veterinary School.

Meeting will be on the Pineland Campus in New Gloucester from 7-8:30 pm, on Thursday, June 23 in Room A in the Pineland Conference Center.

A map of the Pineland Campus can be found here. The Conference Center is located very near the Pineland Entrance off of Rt 231/Intervale Rd.

FMI contact Gary Anderson, Animal & BioScience Specialist, 5735 Hitchner Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5735, Phone 207-581-3240, email garya@maine.edu

ACS Conference 2016 Grant Opportunity

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At our February 2016 the Guild committed to offering at least three ACS Conference Grants for Guild members to attend this year’s American Cheese Society conference in

Des Moines, Iowa July 27th through the 30th.

The grants would pay for the Early Bird conference fee of around $500, which would be roughly a third of total expenses for attending (you would be responsible for your ACS Membership, travel and lodging expenses). Grant recipients are then required to write and publish at least one detailed review of a workshop or educational experience they participated in at the conference to share with the rest of the Guild.

If you can commit to attending the ACS Conference this summer and would like to apply for a guild Grant to do so, please write

—one paragraph describing you and your cheese experience,
—and one paragraph describing what you seek to gain by attending the ACS conference;
—your name and contact info;
—send to info@mainecheeseguild.org with the subject “Guild Grant Request” BEFORE our April 11th meeting.

At that meeting the group will discuss the number of folks seeking a grant, and given our current finances how many grants the Guild can afford to offer. If there are more grant seekers than grants available, the Guild board will review the applications and choose whom will receive Grants before Early Bird registration starts on May 4th.

In the past the Guild has offered to pay the entry fee for any Guild member’s first ACS competition entry, and the Guild has also assembled a group shipment of all Guild entries into the competition. These items will be discussed and budgeted at the April meeting, and the decisions will be announced to the full Guild right after that.