Upcoming Events
November 2012
April 2013
How toos of production for new and aspiring organic vegetable farmers.
May 2013
The National Egg Quality School is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing continuing training in the area of shell egg quality and safety throughout the food production and marketing chain. Its purpose is to provide a curriculum that includes egg formation, abnormalities, interior and exterior egg quality, conserving egg quality, egg benefits to consumers, food safety, and up-to-date information and technologies to individuals with responsibilities or interest in assuring the production and distribution of high quality shell eggs throughout the marketing chain. A combination of lectures, individualized instruction and “hands on” laboratory experience is utilized to ensure students learn as much as possible during the school. The instruction staff includes leading university and industry scientists, experienced state and federal regulatory officials and seasoned industry organization representatives. Students who successfully complete the exam on the last day of the school are awarded a “Certificate of Proficiency”. All others are awarded a “Certificate of Attendance”.
K1 C2 01 Expressing Warmth and Affection to Children
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Dining with Diabetes is a program for adults with diabetes and their families that will increase knowledge of healthy food choices and diabetes management. The classes offer healthy meal planning, cooking demonstrations, and hands-on food preparation, class discussions, and new physical activity choices.
Penn State Extension has nine spring twilight meetings planned for tree fruit growers throughout Pennsylvania. The meetings are held in local orchards. Extension fruit specialists will be on hand to address the pest management and horticultural challenges of the 2013 growing season. Participants also benefit from seeing “how it’s done” at another local orchard in their area. There is no better learning opportunity than to be in the orchard early in the season with Extension specialists and seasoned growers who have committed their careers to studying and growing tree fruit. Directions From Kutztown 737 North/ Krumsville Rd (8 mi) Right Wessnersville Rd (0.6 mi) Left Red Church (360 ft) Immediate Right to stay on Red Church Destination on Right From I-78 Take exit 40 737 North (3.6 mi) Right Wessnersville Rd (0.6 mi) Left Red Church (360 ft) Immediate Right to stay on Red Church Destination on Right
Join Penn State Master Gardeners in Perry County for their 5th annual Plant Fest & Sale!
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Diabetes Management: * Diabetes 101 covers basic diabetes information and terminology * Staying Healthy-provides convenient tips for eating healthy and staying active. Light refreshments will be served.
K7 C1 79 Eating Your Way Through the Alphabet
June 2013
The popular Penn State Extension Food Home Food Preservation hands-on workshops are a great way to learn the basics of home food preservation.
K2 C2 14 Technology and Interactive Media in the Early Childhood Classroom
K6 C2 61 Enhance your Authentic Self
The popular Penn State Extension Food Home Food Preservation hands-on workshops are a great way to learn the basics of home food preservation.
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Penn State Extension in Luzerne County is offering hands-on educational classes on nutrition through its Nutrition Links program. The program is designed to help older adults with low incomes stretch their food dollars to achieve a healthy diet.
Calling all Early Education Directors! Please join us for an informative day of training, featuring two engaging sessions, plus a lunchtime speaker.
A unique opportunity for participants to follow the same soybean stand during the growing season—from shortly after emergence to canopy closure.
The ServSafe® Certification and Home Study Course dates are June 10, & 17th from 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and the exam is June 24th from 9:00 until 12 noon.
Event showcases how dairy producers can adapt “tall grazing” concepts to their farm and maintain forage quality and production.
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Dining with Diabetes is a program for adults with diabetes and their families that will increase knowledge of healthy food choices and diabetes management. The classes offer healthy meal planning, cooking demonstrations, and hands-on food preparation, class discussions, and new physical activity choices.
Weeds are dependable pests—you can count on them showing up and usually have to deal with them year after year. Is your weed management plan effective? This workshop will include hands-on identification of weeds in landscape and turf and in-depth classroom discussion about management options. Our tune-up session starts with a weed identification walk where you’ll learn key features to help you recognize weeds. That walk is followed by an update on management options for specific landscape situations. We’ll talk over the latest strategies for weeds in landscape beds and turf. All in time for summer and fall weed season.
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Penn State Extension in Luzerne County is offering hands-on educational classes on nutrition through its Nutrition Links program. The program is designed to help older adults with low incomes stretch their food dollars to achieve a healthy diet.
High Tunnels provide a great opportunity to extend the season, protect high value crops, improve quality, and reduce weed and pest pressure. As a follow up to our High Tunnel School these twilight meetings will give you a chance to talk with growers and see good practices in action. At each twilight the grower will discuss their experiences with high tunnels and a visiting speaker will share knowledge on a special topic.
The morning session includes an idea exchange for sustainable landscape practices. The afternoon session features scouting for woody ornamental insects and diseases with Penn State experts Gary Moorman and Greg Hoover.
At this workshop, you will learn more about planning and strategies to help mitigate EAB-related risks.
This interactive session involves walking the grounds of Wilkes University and exploring their plant collection while scouting for insects and diseases.
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Penn State Extension in Luzerne County is offering hands-on educational classes on nutrition through its Nutrition Links program. The program is designed to help older adults with low incomes stretch their food dollars to achieve a healthy diet.
Equipment demonstrations and educational sessions for sports field managers, including natural and artificial turf.
Your customers love the color perennial flowering plants add to their landscapes. Learning about herbaceous perennials will help you choose the right plants to thrive in the site, group them attractively, and provide four seasons of interest in your jobs. In this full-day class, Penn State horticulture professor Dr. David Sanford will cover popular perennials for landscape jobs. He will concentrate on rugged plants that are reliable performers, have few pest problems and are available in the trade. We will meet in the auditorium for the morning session to see pictures of the plants and discuss their habits and culture. Plan to spend approximately half of the class time outdoors looking at perennials in the demonstration beds surrounding the Berks County Agricultural Center. Come prepared for the weather. Add some new perennials to the palate that you offer your customers.
Perennial plants fill in garden spaces with color, interesting textures and a display that changes throughout the year. There are so many to choose from it can be a little daunting to decide which ones to invest in! Knowing more about perennials will help you know which plants might thrive in your garden, when they bloom, how many seasons of interest they provide, and how to group them to compliment the design of your garden. Whether you are just starting to discover wonderful cultivars or you want to fill in around your existing favorites, please consider joining us for a day of learning about a great group of plants!
Dinner/discussion meeting will feature Sam Learner and Bob English, Roach Ag Marketing, Ltd. and Bill Kirk, CEO and co-founder of Weather Trends International
July 2013
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Penn State Extension in Luzerne County is offering hands-on educational classes on nutrition through its Nutrition Links program. The program is designed to help older adults with low incomes stretch their food dollars to achieve a healthy diet.
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Class Dates: July 11 and 18, 2013; Exam: July 18, 2013, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM; Registration Deadline: July 5, 2013
This full-day program features inside and outside instruction covering a variety of turf and ornamental topics such as pesticide safety, pest diagnosis, chemical and non-chemical management.
The purpose of this class is to prepare for the Pennsylvania certified pesticide applicator exams in Core and Categories 06 (Ornamental and Shade Tree), 07 (Lawn and Turf), and 23 (Parks and Schools Pest Control). Students should attend three or four days of training, depending on the license(s) they wish to obtain. Core training is held on July 16 and 18, and is required for all licenses. See the section on the Summary page of the registration website titled "What Days of Training Should I Attend?" to determine when you will need to attend class. Testing is conducted by the PA Department of Agriculture after completion of the class and requires additional fees. Class Dates: July 16, 18, 19, 23, 2013 (9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.) Optional Exam Date: July 25, 2013 (9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Herbal Highlights: Oregano, Sweet Marjoram, Basil
Herbal Highlights: Oregano, Sweet Marjoram, Basil
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
August 2013
Class Dates: August 5 and 12, 2013; Exam: August 12, 2013 at 10:00 AM; Registration Deadline: August 1, 2013
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Class Dates: August 13 and 20, 2013; Registration Deadline: August 9, 2013
Herbal Highlights will Focus on the Lemon Herbs: Lemon verbena, Lemon thyme, Lemon basil
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Herbal Highlights will Focus on the Lemon Herbs: Lemon verbena, Lemon thyme, Lemon basil
Class Date: August 14, 2013; Registration Deadline: August 9, 2013
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Tomato Tasting, Contests & Recipes, Tomato Salsa & Preserving Demonstrations
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
September 2013
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Garlic Tasting Party Plus how to grow this delicious herb! Taste 10-20 different varieties!
Class Dates: September 9 and 23, 2013; Exam: September 23, 2013 at 12:00 PM; Registration Deadline: September 2, 2013
Is your local organization struggling to stay productive? Is membership falling? Are you challenged to find or manage resources? Does the group feel like it is going in too many directions, or maybe no direction at all? Six Steps to a Highly Effective Organization works with a leadership team from your organization to identify and develop concrete steps to increase effectiveness. Six monthly workshops will focus on how your organization operates: leadership, structure and committee roles, decision-making and resource management and much more.
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP FOR THE HOME GARDENER - Topics include: Raising Monarchs - Get the Digs on Dirt - A Day in the Fall, Setting the Stage for the Birds - Description of Plants in Murder and Mayhem - Gardening for EVERY BODY - Native Alternatives to Invasive Garden Plants - Insects - Cast a Leaf - The Healing Garden - What's Happening in My Garden? - Vegetable Gardening from November to January
This meeting focuses on weed management in industrial and right-of-way settings. Industry and university specialists present the latest weed management information.
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Join us for this end-of-season landscape update. Review the past season’s pest problems and pick up a few timely core and category pesticide credits.
Do you have a garden or lawn question you can't find the answer to or a bug you can't identify? A Carbon County Master Gardener Volunteer will be at the Extension Office, 529 Lentz Trail in Jim Thorpe to assist you with your questions. Best of all, it's free!
Join us for this end-of-season landscape update. Review the past season’s pest problems and pick up a few timely core and category pesticide credits.
October 2013
Class Dates: October 8 and 15, 2013; Registration Deadline: October 4, 2013
Class Date: October 9, 2013; Registration Deadline: October 4, 2013
Going green saves green. Designing and maintaining a corporate or industrial site can be an expensive undertaking. This workshop will showcase sustainable landscape practices that can reduce costs, support a healthier, more productive workforce, and protect water quality.
November 2013
Class Dates: November 4 and 18, 2013; Exam: November 18, 2013 at 10 AM; Registration Deadline: October 31, 2013
A program to build & sustain the Alletta Schadler Scholarship Fund & to provide awareness of existing extension programs.
A program to build & sustain the Alletta Schadler Scholarship Fund & to provide awareness of existing extension programs.
