‘YOU CAN’ make maple syrup Feb. 26

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Learn to safely tap maple trees and make maple syrup in a YOU CAN workshop from 1-3 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Piscataquis County Office, 165 East Main Street.
    UMaine Cooperative Extension and the Piscataquis Valley Adult Education Cooperative (PVAEC) sponsor the YOU CAN program, which was developed to teach self-sufficiency skills to Maine families.

    Kathy Hopkins, extension educator for Somerset County and statewide resource for the Maine maple syrup industry, will lead the workshop. To register, stop in or write to 48 Morton Ave., Suite M, Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426, call 564-6525 or visit http://bit.ly/pyoucan. For more information, or to request a disability accommodation, call 564-3301 or 800-287-1491 (in Maine).
    As a trusted resource for almost 100 years, University of Maine Cooperative Extension has supported UMaine’s land and sea grant public education role by conducting community-driven, research-based programs in every Maine county. UMaine Extension helps support, sustain and grow the food-based economy.
    It is the only entity in our state that touches every aspect of the Maine Food System, where policy, research, production, processing, commerce, nutrition, and food security and safety are integral and interrelated. UMaine Cooperative Extension also conducts the most successful out-of-school youth educational program in Maine through 4-H.