During the last 1 million years of the Pleistocene, Earth’s climate experienced quasi-cyclical ice ages each lasting about 100,000 years.  The last glacial cycle over North America peaked 18,000–24,000 years ago, when the southeast lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered all of Maine, extending beyond the modern coastline to George’s Bank.  Deglaciation occurred across […]

"In their histories as biological disciplines, both physiology and ecology have offered revolutionary integrations of evolutionary, cellular, and molecular theory in biology. They connect the individual organism to all other organisms and aim to identify and explain the processes that underlie the diversity we see in nature. Today, a further integration of physiology and ecology seeks to understand […]

About Dahlias Please join Maine Master Gardener Volunteer John Fromer for an in depth talk on everything dahlias.  Fromer will discuss growing dahlias from seed, rooting cuttings, dividing and planting tubers, care of plants, and lifting and storing dahlia tubers in fall.  Very easy to grow and a wonderful fall flowering plant, dahlias are beautiful […]

There is more to the Gulf of Maine than what can be seen from the beach. Sea creatures from all over the Atlantic stream into the Gulf to take advantage of the abnormally cold, food-rich waters. High tides passing over a rough sea floor churn up the food in predictable places. What happens in Maine […]

Kitchen gardens have existed since antiquity and are still popular today.  Why have these gardens been important to western cultures? How were they designed and how are they used today?  What were the diets of people over the centuries and how did kitchen gardens help support families?  What were and are popular vegetables and herbs […]