Maine AgrAbility's most recent article in the Commercial Fisheries News is about fishing and energy conservation. Commercial fishing involves working in harsh environments and being in physically and mentally strenuous situations. Energy conservation can help: it's the practice of examining tasks and structuring them to minimize muscle fatigue, joint stress, and pain, by using the body efficiently and ergonomically.
Staff have started a new blog from a collection of notes gathered by AgrAbility staffer Ketra Crosson, OTR/L, from her time spent tending a raised bed during the pandemic last year. The posts are to provide insight on raised bed gardening, as a first-person perspective from an occupational therapist. Read the first two posts.
Submitted by Lani Carlson