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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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Healthier Holiday Breakfasts

During leisurely Holiday mornings, breakfast often has a chance to take center stage. Most of these recipes can be …

Plan Your Holiday Pies!

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it is time to start making out menus and deciding on which pie …

Take Control When Dining Out

The Holidays are looming on the horizon, which means celebrating and enjoying time with friends, and often this includes …

Thirty Minute Meals

Healthy 30-Minute Meals to Keep Your Family on Track Through the Holidays! During the Holiday rush between Halloween and New …

Cook Your Fall Decorations

Don’t Toss Your Fall Decorations – Cook Them! I love Fall decorating, the colors, the use of fresh materials, all …

Cover photo for The Teal Pumpkin Project

The Teal Pumpkin Project

Have a Safe Halloween and enjoy some Allergen-Friendly Treats! Celebrating Happy Halloween next week means a week full of sweet …

Fall Casserole Round-Up

Casseroles, in America, represent the efficient, inexpensive, one-dish meal, made to stretch ingredients and feed a lot of folks! …

Enjoy the Fresh Pears?

Fresh pears are abundant this time of year and you certainly do not want this nutritional treat to go …

Lenoir County Fair Cook Off

Do you want to be known in Lenoir County for the most magnificent casserole? Get your best recipe out …

Fall is the Season for Apples

Honey Crisp, Pink Lady, or Granny Smith; no matter which variety is your favorite, apples are one of the …

Celebrate the Honey Bee

Each year we celebrate National Honey Bee Day, on the third Saturday in August. The celebration began in 2009 …

Muscadines are Ripe and Ready!

Muscadine grapes originated in the Southeastern region of the United States and as you know are quite commonly grown …

Cover photo for Relish the Flavors

Relish the Flavors

Summer may be coming to an end but fall flavors are not! Join Relish the Flavors Series for a …

Abundance of Banana Peppers!

Do you have more banana peppers than you think you possibly could ever eat? I am here to help!! …

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Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis L.)

This publication discusses growing and harvesting bloodroot, a spring wildflower used to produce natural red, …

Commercial Goldenseal Cultivation

This factsheet covers commercial goldenseal production in North Carolina, a highly valued medicinal herb which …

A Housing Safety Checklist for Older People

This checklist describes household conditions that can be hazardous to the elderly and recommends ways …

3/27/25

Eat Smart Move More North Carolina: Growing Communities Through Gardens

Gardens bring communities together. Not only are community gardens a good way to get more …

3/26/25
Left (3 children with gardening tools work on a raised bed), Right (two children examine plants in a raised bed)

Appendix H. Community Gardening Resources

This appendix is part of the Extension Gardener Handbook and gives users to the tools …

2/19/25

Garden Harvest Tracking Sheet

This document is part of Appendix H of the Extension Gardener Handbook and provides a …

2/19/25

Application for Community Gardening Assistance

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

2/19/25

Community Garden Asset Inventory

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

2/19/25