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Save the Date for Our 2024 Chatham County Spring Ag Fest!

Spring Ag Fest Celebrating Chatham County Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Saturday, March 23, 2024 10 a.m.–3 p.m. This is a FREE Event! Chatham …

— 2 weeks ago, Growing Small Farms

Monarch Protection with different life stages

A Monarch Bed and Breakfast in Denton, NC

Have you ever wanted to raise Monarch butterflies? How about 237 monarchs released from your very own fingertips? Well, …

— 3 weeks ago, Integrated Pest Management

Requesting Feedback on Growing Small Farms Website

Cooperative Extension’s Growing Small Farms website provides information on sustainable agriculture to North Carolina farmers, gardeners, and consumers. Visitors will find …

— 4 weeks ago, Growing Small Farms

Early Fall 2023 Snapshots From Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Garden

In late 2008, I planted a demonstration pollinator garden at Chatham Mills to provide forage from early spring to …

— 1 month ago, Growing Small Farms

Before we started the count we walked around the pollinator garden to practice identifying different types of insects. Here the kids are looking at early instar monarch caterpillars that were on the resprouted common milkweed plants that I cut back in July when they were done blooming.

Chatham County 4-H Youth Participate in the Great Southeast Pollinator Census

This was the first year that North Carolina participated in the Great Southeast Pollinator Census, a citizen science initiative …

— 2 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Late summer garden vignette of green-headed coneflower, spurred butterfly pea, and eastern horsemint

Register Now for October 5 Landscaping for Pollinators Workshop

UPDATE: This workshop is full. Please contact Debbie Roos if you would like to be on her email list …

— 3 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Register Now for a Fall Tour of the Pollinator Paradise Garden

Fall tours of North Carolina Cooperative Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Demonstration Garden in Pittsboro start in mid-September! The garden features over 225 …

— 3 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Chatham County Native Plant Sale September 8!

On September 8 folks will have a rare opportunity to come to Pittsboro and buy native plants from our …

— 3 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Passionflower bee collecting pollen on yellow passionflower.

Critter Spotlight: Passionflower Bee

For 15 years I have enjoyed observing the many pollinators that forage on the native passionflowers in my Pollinator …

— 4 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Pollinator Plant Spotlight: Late Figwort

Even though I have been managing my Pollinator Paradise Garden for 15 years, it continues to teach me every year. …

— 4 months ago, Growing Small Farms

View Recording of CCP’s Snake Webinar

Chatham Conservation Partnership (CCP) conducted a webinar on Snakes of the North Carolina Piedmont on July 20, 2023, and we had …

— 4 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Early Summer 2023 Snapshots From Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Garden

In late 2008, I planted a demonstration pollinator garden at Chatham Mills to provide forage from early spring to …

— 4 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Critter Spotlight: Camouflaged Looper

Recently while working in my Pollinator Paradise Demonstration Garden I was observing all the bee activity on the lemon …

— 4 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Brush Up on Your Botany Vocabulary With These Fun Exercises . . .

Dr. Alexander Krings, at the NC State Herbarium, created a series of drag-and-drop exercises to help gardeners learn basic …

— 4 months ago, Gardening

participants practice netting bumble bees

Community Scientists Trained to Participate in Bumble Bee Atlas Project

In mid-June about 16 pollinator enthusiasts gathered at N.C. Cooperative Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Garden in Pittsboro to receive training …

— 5 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Request Your Feedback on Pollinator Programs!

As an Agriculture Agent with the N.C. Cooperative Extension, Chatham County Center, I do educational programs on pollinator conservation …

— 5 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Register Now for September 8 Landscaping for Pollinators Workshop & Native Plant Sale!

UPDATE: This workshop sold out in less than two days with close to 150 tickets. Please email Debbie to …

— 5 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Late Spring 2023 Snapshots From Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Garden

In late 2008, I planted a demonstration pollinator garden at Chatham Mills to provide forage from early spring to …

— 5 months ago, Growing Small Farms

Register Now for a Summer Tour of the Pollinator Paradise Garden!

Summer tours of North Carolina Cooperative Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Demonstration Garden in Pittsboro start in early July! The garden features over …

— 5 months ago, Growing Small Farms