Upcoming Events
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4/2
Cancelled: Practical Ways to Help People and the Planet: A Focus on Forests
Cancelled: Practical Ways to Help People and the Planet: A Focus on Forests
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Other Litchfield County Extension Center, 843 University Drive Torrington, US CT
Forests evolved before dinosaurs and are essential to our survival. Interdisciplinary science provides new insights into how to balance co-benefits for community, climate, ecology and public health. More than ever we need an intact network of nature for people and the planet. This class reviews recent and established science on ecosystem features and services and the importance of a strategic balance among resource production, research and data collection, and nature preserves. It will also highlight the limits of current knowledge, offer a special focus on brain health, and emphasize the importance of an ethos of “first do no harm” in our stewardship of the natural world. -
4/7
Cancelled: Organic Roses: From Soil to Bloom
Cancelled: Organic Roses: From Soil to Bloom
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Other Fairfield County Extension Center, 67 Stony Hill Rd Bethel, CT 06801
In this class you will learn how to cultivate roses organically, select appropriate varieties, maintain your roses, and how to utilize organic roses for medicinal or culinary purposes. A slide presentation will be followed by a demonstration of how to prune and deadhead roses. The class will conclude with a culinary sampling of an organic rose treat. -
4/22
Cancelled: Site Preparation
Cancelled: Site Preparation
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Other Middlesex County Extension Center, 1066 Saybrook Rd Haddam, CT 06438
Are you thinking about transforming a landscape? Perhaps you’re reducing a lawn, eliminating a veggie garden, cleaning up a weedy patch, or turning a perennial bed into a flowering meadow? In order to get a pleasing result, good site preparation is critical. Unfortunately, it is a little understood step, often given short shrift in the drive to create a new landscape. In this seminar, we'll look at ways to analyze past land uses, compare weed removal methods, look at realistic timelines for site transformations, and consider what it really takes to prepare a site for change. Extensive resource handout included with registration. -
5/16
New London County 4-H Food Show
New London County 4-H Food Show
Saturday, May 16th, 2020
01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Other Subase Youth Center, Groton
The NLC Food Show takes place in spring. This fun and delicious event is for group participation- independent members can contact the 4-H office to connect with a participating club. The theme of the Food Show and accompanying Poster Contest is announced in early spring. Club members work together to plan their menu, table settings and decorations, and costumes (if they choose) in whatever imaginative way they interpret the theme. 4-H'ers do their own cooking for the event. -
6/12
S20/07: Using Newcomb's Wildflower Guide & Wildflower Field Walk
S20/07: Using Newcomb's Wildflower Guide & Wildflower Field Walk
Friday, June 12th, 2020
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Other Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford, 151 Brookdale Rd Stamford, CT 06903
Have you ever been completely flummoxed by the idea of keying out a plant sample in order to ID it – whether in the Master Gardener office, or in your own back yard? This presentation and hands-on tutorial will familiarize you with this Most Helpful of field guides, plus give you a refresher on all those botanical terms that are so useful when trying to ID plants. The Wildflower Walk will be an opportunity to practice what you have just learned while we play with the local Flora. The grounds around the Bartlett Arboretum have a lovely variety of wildflowers, and we will explore what Mother Nature has to show us. Bring a copy of Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide if you have one, and a magnifying glass or hand lens. Dress properly for our walk, which will take place rain or shine. Feel free also to bring samples of Mystery Plants from your own yard, too (no Poison Ivy, please!). -
7/25
New London County 4-H Fair & Expo
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7/26
New London County 4-H Fair & Expo
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10/24
UConn 4-H Goat Day
UConn 4-H Goat Day
Saturday, October 24th, 2020
08:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus Ratcliffe Hicks Arena
The event is for youth ages 7-19 as well as goat enthusiasts. Pre-registration is required.
