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W. Edwin Kee
University of Delaware Cooperative Extension

W. Edwin Kee is a vegetable crops specialist for the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension Service and an instructor in UD's Department of Plant and Soil Sciences. A sixth-generation Delawarean, he was the last executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Food Processors before that group disbanded. His 2006 book Saving Our Harvest: The Story of the Mid-Atlantic Region's Canning and Freezing Industry charts the progress of the canning industry from its inception in Baltimore  to the present. Kee has been with the University of Delaware’s Cooperative Extension system since 1978 and has served as the Kent County agricultural agent. He serves on the Delaware Heritage Commission, the board of the Delaware Agriculture Museum, the Delaware Commission on Banking and the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association.

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