FARMINGTON - University of Maine at Farmington students, undeterred by miserable, wet weather, turned out to improve a community garden Wednesday morning by planting fruit trees for a future orchard.

FARMINGTON - LEAP recently awarded two $500 scholarships. The recipients were Sarah Pine of Carrabassett Valley and Brittney Castonguay of Livermore. These scholarships will be awarded to offset the cost of tuition, books and supplies.

FARMINGTON – Life Enrichment Advancing People (LEAP), Inc., recently received a $5,000 grant from the Western Mountains Fund of the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) in support of the Stone Soup Gardens. The funds will be used to purchase start-up equipment, educational tools and support for interns.
The Stone Soup Garden Project is a community agricultural collaborative including [...]

FARMINGTON - University of Maine at Farmington student Alissa Thebarge was recently honored as an Outstanding Future Professional by the Maine Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. She is one of two Maine college students chosen in 2008 for this distinction.
A senior from Windham, Thebarge is a community health education major with a [...]

FARMINGTON - Under winter’s ice-white landscape, a garden like no other is in the works.
Imagine, if you will, a large, fertile-rich plot under the blue warming sky of spring as an outdoor classroom, where its students learn to till the soil, plant seeds and nurture their garden. For those students, the lessons of how to [...]