  {"id":32062,"date":"2024-08-28T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=32062"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:17:30","slug":"boston-globe-spotlights-rachel-schattmans-work-on-adapting-blueberry-farming-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2024\/08\/28\/boston-globe-spotlights-rachel-schattmans-work-on-adapting-blueberry-farming-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe spotlights Rachel Schattman\u2019s work on adapting blueberry farming to climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"904\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1024x904.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Schattman headshot\" class=\"wp-image-23525\" style=\"width:246px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1024x904.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1536x1355.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-2048x1807.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-105x93.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-317x280.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-423x373.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-634x559.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-846x747.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-951x839.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1268x1119.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/08\/17\/science\/maine-wild-blueberries-climate-change-drought-storms-frost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Boston Globe<\/a> highlighted <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/rachel-schattman\/\">Rachel Schattman<\/a>, a former vegetable farmer, 91¸£Àû sustainable agriculture professor, and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, for her research on how climate change affects wild blueberry production. She is helping Wyman\u2019s Blueberries adapt to changing weather patterns to ensure a stable harvest. Her research is key to maintaining the industry\u2019s productivity amid climate challenges. \u201cIf we want to have a functioning and healthy agricultural system in this country and around the world, we have to be thinking about this,\u201d Schattman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe highlighted Rachel Schattman, a former vegetable farmer, 91¸£Àû sustainable agriculture professor, and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, for her research on how climate change affects wild blueberry production. She is helping Wyman\u2019s Blueberries adapt to changing weather patterns to ensure a stable harvest. Her research is key to maintaining the industry\u2019s productivity amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32065,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32062\/revisions\/32065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}