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Carolina Yards: Guide to Environmentally Friendly Gardening
- Teacher: Kimberly Counts
- Teacher: Sara Pachota
- Teacher: Amy Dabbs
Carolina Yards: Guide to Environmentally Friendly Gardening
Enjoy online training from the comfort of your home and on your own schedule! Each week includes online presentations, videos, and discussion forums with fellow gardeners. You can access and view all course material at your own pace! Along the way, you will earn "inches" on the Carolina YardStick by performing environmentally friendly gardening activities in your yard. If you earn enough "inches" you can obtain certification and recognize your yard as a Carolina Yard! If you want to join Clemson Extension this five week, online course designed to help you learn to grow and maintain an environmentally friendly garden, then please click 'Continue'.
If you need assistance, please contact:
Sara Pachota - Clemson University Cooperative Extension at pachotasg@g.cofc.edu- Japanese Beetles and their larval form, the white grub, are among the most common lawn and garden pests in the Northeast United States. This lesson offers a closeup view of the entire life cycle, so that the learner may better understand how timing plays a critical role in controlling infestation.
Content Specialist: Jeffrey T. Fowler, Turfgrass Educator
Penn State Extension
The Power of Pollinators provides materials and resources to empower Extension Master Gardeners, Certified Volunteer Naturalists and others to teach about pollinators with three PowerPoint programs (including notes and resources). Contact: Denise Ellsworth (ellsworth.2@osu.edu) at The Ohio State University.
This blended course is for Ohio volunteers enrolled in 'The Power of Pollinators" specialization.
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases: Lyme disease, blacklegged ticks and more is a self-directed online course for hunters, gardeners, university extension employees and volunteers, natural resource managers, veterinary professionals,and others. By completing this course learners wil be able to:
- describe basic tick biology
- identify common ticks of the Midwest
- list common tick-borne diseases and identify their tick vectors
- summarize preventive measures to prevent tick bites
- locate factsheets, websites and other tick and tick-borne disease resources.This program qualifies for 2 CE hours from the Ohio Veterinary Medical Licensing Board.
For more information contact Denise Ellsworth, The Ohio State University: ellsworth.2@osu.edu