Topless Trees Are Indecent

From the International Soceity of Arboriculture CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Trees must be pruned sometimes to avoid interference with utility lines, buildings, or parts of the surrounding environment. Whenever pruning to reduce a tree’s size is MORE » – from   Chowan County CenterPosted: 5/17/13

Extension Master Gardeners Recognized & Awarded

North Carolina Cooperative Extension recently recognized twenty local volunteers as newly certified Extension Master Gardeners and fifty-eight local volunteers as re-certified Extension Master Gardeners at the 2012 Chowan, Gates & Perquimans County Extension Master MORE » – from   Chowan County CenterPosted: 4/24/13

Horticultural Science Summer Institute

July 7th-12th, 2013 Application Deadline: May 22, 2013 by 5:00pm. High school-aged youth (rising sophomores, juniors and seniors) are invited to apply to a week-long, residential horticultural experience on the campus of NC State University. Youth MORE »Posted: 4/4/13

2013 Small Grain Field Day: White Hat Seed Farm

The County Extension Centers of Perquimans, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, and Pasquotank, with the cooperation of White Hat Seed Farm, will be conducting a small grain field day on Friday, May 10th starting at MORE »Posted: 4/1/13

ABOVE GROUND STORAGE TANK REGULATIONS

As you probably know, EPA has been proposing regulations for above ground storage tanks that include those on farms for a number of years. Several deadlines to enact these regulations have come and gone MORE »Posted: 4/1/13

Northeast District 4-H Science.Biotechnology.Investigate. Academy

S.B.I. Acacemy will be  held July 10-12, 2013 at NC Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, NC.  Come Learn how to crack a murder mystery case, as you become a Crime Scene Investigator.  Campers will MORE »Posted: 3/19/13

Watermelon Variety Trials 2012

MORE »Posted: 2/1/13

Wheat Update

Due to a run of good weather, we had a “long” planting season for wheat.  Wheat is anywhere from 3 or more tillers down to some that just emerged before wet, cold weather set MORE »Posted: 1/10/13