Small Fruit Workshop Series
N.C. Cooperative Extension, Yadkin County Center is offering a winter workshop series on small fruit production and pruning. Learn …
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Horticulture Newsletter, Winter Edition 2020
Check out the winter edition of The Grower’s Spade for tips on growing cool-season vegetables and the latest Extension-related news…including …
Wilkes-Yadkin Landscapers Workshop January 14
N.C. Cooperative Extension in Wilkes and Yadkin Counties, along with the Small Business Center at Wilkes Community College, will …
Plant Disease and Insect Clinic Holiday Schedule
North Carolina State University, including the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic, will be closed the week of December 23–27, …
Visit NC Farms App Is Coming to Yadkin County!
Visit NC Farms App is coming …
NC Farm School 2020 – An Opportunity Not to Be Missed
NC Farm School is an in-depth training for any farmer interested in exploring which farm enterprises best suit their …
Thanksgiving Holiday Hours for the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic
The NC State University Plant Disease and Insect Clinic will be closing for the Thanksgiving holiday starting at 1:30 …
The Grower’s Spade October-December 2019
The latest issue of The Grower’s Spade is hot of the press! Fruit Trees: a labor of love Planting a fruit tree …
Food Safety for Small Farms
Back to the Basics: Food Safety for Small Farms When: NOVEMBER 19, 2019, 6:30–9 p.m. Where: YADKIN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL …
Grape Pest Survey - 4th Week of September
This article is our last post for this grape season. Harvest is complete at all of our locations. We …
Are You Prepared for Wildfire
This week the Drought Monitor map indicates that large portions of North Carolina are drying out. Even after a …
Grape Pest Survey - 3rd Week of September
Our only remaining active locations is our muscadine site in Rowan County. Again, grape berry moth were caught at the …
Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of September
As harvest continues and we get close to the end of the season, we are finishing the insect scouting …
Grape Pest Survey - 1st Week of September
Harvest keeps going in a full swing, and about half of our locations are completely harvested with the rest …
Grape Pest Survey- 4th Week of August
Two of our locations have completed harvest, and we have concluded our monitoring efforts. We will continue to visit …
How to Protect Your Beehives From Mosquito Spraying Following a Hurricane
How beekeepers can minimize the effects on their hives The devil is in the details, most of which are under …
Late Blight on Tomato Confirmed in Haywood County, NC (Aug 26, 2019)
Late blight on tomato was confirmed in Haywood County on August 26, 2019, and confirmed by microscopic observation of …
Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of August
Our first vinifera location, in Rowan Co., began harvest this past week, and as the fruit were gone, we …
Grape Pest Survey- 1st Week of August
At our monitoring sites, grapes are ripe, and the first harvest at the Johnston Co. location started this week. …
Grape Pest Survey- 5th Week of July
Glassy winged sharpshooter captures are very low or zero in locations with previous captures. This suggests we are between …
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