Upcoming Events

Penn State Extension is offering its interactive, informative, and low-cost series of classes on diabetes, beginning in late April.

Do you have questions about your garden or landscape? Are you trying to select the right plant for the right place or get rid of those weeds growing in the wrong place? Do you have a mystery plant you can’t identify? The Penn State Master Gardeners in Cumberland County can help you find answers to your home gardening questions at four Plant Clinic locations during the 2013 growing season.

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.

Penn State Extension and Cover Crop Solutions, LLC invite you to join us in the field to see what's new for 2013.

K4 C2 41 Child Observation Level 2 - Unit 5: Using Observation to Create Responsive School-Age Environments & Activities

K1 C2 02 Developing Values through Character Education

K7 C1 79 Eating Your Way Through the Alphabet

Managing Silo Fire Emergencies

Penn State Master Gardeners are offering a Summer Garden Camp for youth ages 7 to 12 or in grades 3 to 6 at the Penn State Extension office on Allen Road in Carlisle. There will be five sessions of growing, learning, hands-on fun on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on the following dates: June 11, June 25, July 9, July 23, and August 6, 2013.

K6 C2 61 Enhance your Authentic Self

Class Date: June 4, 2013; Exam: June 14, 2013, 9:00-11:00 AM; Registration Deadline: June 3, 2013

1. Review Past Program Activities 2. Review Finances Report & Previous Meeting Minutes 3. Discuss Upcoming Programs & New Business

Class Date: June 5, 2013; Exam: June 12, 2013, 8:00-10:00 AM; Registration Deadline: May 29, 2013

Objective: Penn State will host a small grains field day at the Landisville Research Farm to discuss variety selection, pest management. CCA credits will be available.

Class Date: June 10, 2013; Exam: June 17, 2013 at 9:00 AM; Registration Deadline: June 3, 2013

Information Session June 3, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. with classes beginning the week of June 10, 2013, Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. for a six week session. You can increase your strength, improve your bone density, improve your balance, and energy, and you will look and feel better!

Beginning the week of June 10, 2013, Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 5:15 – 6:15 p.m. for six weeks. You can increase your strength, improve your bone density, improve your balance, and energy, and you will look and feel better!

A unique opportunity for participants to follow the same soybean stand during the growing season - from shortly after emergence to canopy closure.

This hands-on program covers identification of ornamental insects and diseases, plant symptoms, chemical and non-chemical management options.

National Pollinator Week is June 17 to 23, 2013. To mark the occasion, join Penn State Master Gardeners in Cumberland County for a Butterfly Container Workshop on Saturday, June 15, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Cumberland County Extension office, 310 Allen Road, Carlisle.

K1 C1 03 Improving Social and Emotional Literacy and Language with Young Children

Home Gardening Series. Beginners and advanced gardeners alike will learn some new techniques at the series of classes offered this year by the York County Master Gardeners.

At this workshop, you will learn more about planning and strategies to help mitigate EAB-related risks.

At this workshop, you will learn more about planning and strategies to help mitigate EAB-related risks.

Penn State Extension and the Penn State Southeast Agricultural Research and Education Center (SEAREC) will be hosting an agronomic field day for farmers, industry representatives, and other agricultural professionals. The 2013 field day will strive to provide both industry and the farming community with current production agriculture related topics and concerns. You will also have the opportunity to visit with our sponsors from the chemical industry, the seed industry, local equipment dealers, ag lenders, and other crop production professionals. PA Certified Crop Advisor and Nutrient Management credits available.

Not just another garden tour, the Gardening with Native Plants – The Tour is a great opportunity to learn how to make your yard more environmentally friendly. Sponsored by Penn State Extension and Mid-Atlantic Ecological Landscapes (MAEscapes) five homeowners in York County will open their properties on Saturday, June 29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and show you how they are using native plants to conserve water, reduce pesticide and fertilizer use and create habitat for wildlife.

Mark your calendars now for the 2013 International Fruit Tree Association Study Tour July 16-17, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The theme of the tour is Heritage and Innovation. Plan on a barbecue at the Round Barn Orchard on the first night of the tour. The Young Grower Alliance (YGA) led the planning for the tour, which will include optional opportunities to visit orchards on the 15th in Bedford County and the 18th in Thurmont, Maryland. The Historic Gettysburg Hotel will be the tour Headquarters.

Opportunities for growers and industry personnel to learn about the latest Penn State research, to tour facilities and research field plots, and engage in Q & A with research and Extension faculty.

Wholesale nursery growers and garden center employees, spend a morning at Root’s Nurseries learning how to identify ornamental plant pests and problems, along with various management strategies.

1. Review Past Program Activities 2. Review Finances Report & Previous Meeting Minutes 3. Discuss Upcoming Programs & New Business

Home Gardening Series. Beginners and advanced gardeners alike will learn some new techniques at the series of classes offered this year by the York County Master Gardeners.

This hands-on program covers identification of ornamental insects and diseases, plant symptoms, chemical and non- chemical management options.

A four-day program designed to assist landscape professionals, turf managers, garden center and nursery employees who plan on testing for a pesticide applicators license in Categories 06, 07, 23.

Are you considering launching a small farm enterprise, but were not sure where to start? This is the course for you!

Class Date: October 16, 2013; Exam: October 23, 2013, 8:00-10:00 AM; Registration Deadline: October 9, 2013

Class Date: October 28, 2013; Exam: November 4, 2013, 8:00-10:00 AM; Registration Deadline: October 21, 2013

Class Date: November 12, 2013; Exam: November 26, 2013 at 8:30 AM; Registration Deadline: November 5, 2013