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YardScaping - THE EXPERTS
- Editor’s note: The YardScaping Partnership was formed by a collection of agencies and organizations across the state concerned about Maine’s water quality deteriorating at the hands of homeowners’ yard care practices. Feel free to contact the below YardScaping members for interviews.
Mary Cerullo. The Friends of Casco Bay, associate director
Mary directs the five-year-old BayScaping outreach program. The effort educates homeowners in the Casco Bay watershed about environmentally friendly lawn care.
207-799-8574, mcerullo@cascobay.org
Gary Fish. Maine Board of Pesticides Control, manager of pesticide programs
Gary is informally known as the “turf guy” and is a licensed professional forester. He knows an inestimable amount about lawns, trees and shrubs.
207-287-2731, gary.fish@maine.gov
Clay Kirby. University of Maine Cooperative Extension, entomologist
Whether you have an insect that needs to be identified or just a piece of the damaged leaf it left behind, Clay is your go to guy. He serves as the entomologist at the University’s Insect and Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab.
800-287-0279, ckirby@umext.maine.edu
Barb Murphy. Oxford County Cooperative Extension, extension educator
Barb is an excellent home gardening resource—from plants to pests. She is an instructor for the Master Gardener program.
800-287-1482, bmurphy@umext.maine.edu
Barb Welch. Maine Department of Environmental Protection, biologist
Barb helps run the state’s LakeSmart program. Since 2001, the program has been recognizing homeowners in lake watersheds who manage and landscape their property in a natural, lake-friendly manner. If your readers live on lakes, then they need to know about buffers—and Barb is your first call.
207-287-7682, barb.welch@maine.gov
Lois Stack. University of Maine Cooperative Extension, ornamental horticulturist
Lois has served the “green industry” in Maine for nearly 20 years. Her research has included invasive plant species.
800-870-7270, lstack@umext.maine.edu
Cheryl Rich. Southern Maine Community College, Plant & Soil Technology Dept. Chair
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207-741-5646, crich@smccme.edu
Bruce Watt. University of Maine Cooperative Extension, plant pathologist
If there is a particular plant disease that’s running rampant in Maine, Bruce would know. He works with Clay at the University’s Insect and Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab, which operates year-round and offers diagnostic services to the public.
800-287-0279, bwatt@umext.maine.edu
Frank Wertheim. York County Cooperative Extension, extension educator
Frank has a heap of knowledge in home gardening: composting, insect and plant disease identification, soil testing and integrated pest management, to name a few.
800-2871535, frankw@umext.maine.edu
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