Want to try a new recipe for Thanksgiving? Watch Extension's Produce Lady for roasted butternut squash w/ fruit: [more] • • • Are you a plant killer? Watch this episode of "In the Garden with Bryce Lane" to learn to keep plants alive: [more] • • • Avoid foodborne illness this holiday season by following these Extension tips from #NCSU and Kansas State Univ: [more]
Commercial horticulture -- fruit, vegetable and landscape plant production -- represents a fast-growing segment of North Carolina's economy. North Carolina Cooperative Extension helps growers implement research-based production practices, investigate high-value alternative crops, develop sound business plans and explore new marketing options to ensure continued farm profitability, environmental stewardship and quality of life.
Within Rutherford County a wide-range of animal and crop diversity exists. Full- and part-time commercial producers rely on the Cooperative Extension Service to provide the latest research to assist their operations in being sustainable and economically profitable.
Educational programs include workshops, classes, hands-on training opportunities, on-farm demonstrations, newsletters and internet communication.
The Rutherford Extension Center also assists the Rutherford County Farmers' Market.
North Carolina's small fruit and vegetable industries are revitalized by a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences program that offers assistance to new agribusiness ventures. (Photo by Becky Kirkland) MORE
This six hour long review is designed to give individuals preparing to take the NC Registered Landscape Contractor's Exam a short refresher and allow them to brush up on some of the skills needed to sit for the exam. It is not designed to give one answers to the questions on the actual exam but to help participants get into the "groove" of taking an exam with a feel for the kind of questions ... MORE
NC Cooperative Extension is based at North Carolina's two land-grant institutions, NC State University and NC A&T State University, in all 100 counties and on the Cherokee Reservation.
