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Health & Nutrition

Extension offers a wealth of educational programs that help people make healthier, better-informed decisions and grow our economy. Programs cover a variety of areas from local foods and food safety to gardening and environmental efforts.

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Med Instead of Meds

ATTENTION: Our Med Instead of Meds series start date has been changed to Thursday, February 1st!! Registration is now …

Molasses

Molasses or Malarkey?

Sometimes I get the most interesting calls! Questions from plant, weed, and insect identification to various products to be …

European Pear Bartlett

When Can You Eat Pears?

My youngest daughter catches the bus every morning over in Smallwood. While we don’t live in Smallwood, we are very …

I took the photo in our teaching garden here at the Beaufort County Center. This is an older vine (I presume the cultivar to be a superior) in which I have regrown and trained the cordons on to teach how this is done to gardeners in the area.

Muscadine or Scuppernong Grapes

There are few rural residential properties across the Southeast that do not have a grapevine growing somewhere. Be it …

Brown Rice Salad

Rethink Takeout

Busy lifestyles compete with time spent in the home kitchen. Ordering takeout can seem like the easiest, most convenient option …

Basket of Peaches

Time for Fresh Peaches

North Carolina ranks approximately ninth in peach production. The majority of peaches are grown in the Sandhills area but, …

Cover photo for Freezing Strawberries

Freezing Strawberries

Fresh strawberries are a seasonal treat in the Spring, but by freezing strawberries, your family can enjoy them even in …

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Appendix H. Community Gardening Resources

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Garden Harvest Tracking Sheet

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Application for Community Gardening Assistance

This document is part of Appendix H of the Extension Gardener Handbook.

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Community Garden Asset Inventory

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Tracking the Harvest: Measurement Guide for Counting or Weighing Vegetables

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Instructions for Tracking the Garden Harvest

This document is part of appendix H of the Extension Gardener Handbook.

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Asset-based Community Development: Mapping Reciprocal Partnerships—An Example

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Asset-based Community Development: Mapping Reciprocal Partnerships—Blank

This document is part of appendix H of the Extension Gardener Handbook.

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