AUGUSTA — Maine AgrAbility will offer a workshop for disabled and aging farmers from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, at the Elk’s Club, 397 Civic Center Drive. Preregistration by April 10 is required.

There is a $25 fee, which includes lunch and a “MacGyver” tape kit. Register online at www.umaine.edu/agrability or stop by the Farmington Cooperative Extension office to pre-register. For more information, contact Maine AgrAbility Coordinator Leilaine Gordon at 207-944-1533.

Dr. Therese Willkomm will be the featured presenter at this hands-on workshop that will provide participants with an overview of hundreds of assistive technology solutions. These solutions can be created in minutes using everyday tools and materials found around the farm or in rural communities.

Participants will learn amazing uses for 42 different tools and materials for fabricating quick solutions that don’t require electricity.

Willkomm is an assistive technology magician who has invented more than 600 different assistive technology solutions, holds a Ph.D. in rehabilitation science and technology, and is the director of New Hampshire’s statewide assistive technology program.

She is also a clinical professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at U.N.H., oversees the graduate certificate program in assistive technology, has over 25 years of experience assisting more than 1,200 farmers with disabilities and has developed more than 30 different resources on farming with a disability.

Maine AgrAbility is a nonprofit collaboration of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Goodwill Industries of Northern New England and Alpha One. The goal of the National AgrAbility Project is to inform, educate and assist farmers, ranchers and farm workers with disabilities, and their families, so they can continue to have successful careers in agriculture.