No hard deadlines, these will be rolling admission courses meant to be completed at the participants' own pace.

Smart Use Understanding and Estimating Health Care Costs: Taking control of your health care costs makes you a smart healthcare consumer. Better understand and estimate your health care expenses so you can plan for future health care costs.

Building soil health on agricultural lands is an important strategy to improve water quality, climate resilience, and farm viability. In this course, designed for anyone who provides technical assistance to agricultural producers, you will learn about science behind healthy soils, how to measure and assess soil health, and how to select and implement agricultural management strategies that build healthy soils. Developed in partnership between the Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation District [https://www.franklincountynrcd.org/] and University of Vermont Extension [https://www.uvm.edu/extension].

This course is restricted and only available to the University of Nevada Reno Extension Spiral Up Academy participants.

In this session, we discuss professional characteristics,best practices, the teacher's role and unique professional growth needs and benefits. In this session, we discuss how to build positive peer interactions and develop collaborative relationships with colleagues.

This training focuses on how teachers prioritize time for connections and relationship-building with all young children and their families. Four strategies are introduced: increasing positive time, meaningful conversations, join in play and responsive interactions.

This course is restricted and only available to the University of Nevada Reno Extension Spiral Up Academy participants.

In this topic, we will explore how the following big ideas work together to create an effective learning environment for young children: Developing daily schedules and routines, Planning and implementing transitions and teaching expectations and rules.

This course is restricted and only available to the University of Nevada Reno Extension Spiral Up Academy participants.

This training focuses on professional development andfinding joy working with children and co-workers.

This curriculum was developed to provide a uniform, publicly-available, research-based stormwater core curriculum to:

• Build comprehension of the fundamentals of stormwater management, stormwater practices and maintenance processes
• Develop an understanding of and skills that support communicating the importance of stormwater management to community stakeholders

This training is designed for stormwater professionals such as public works and parks department staff, private contractors, stormwater managers and homeowners associations or other landowners who are responsible for a stormwater management practice. For more information or to enroll please contact Shahram Missaghi, University of Minnesota, miss0035@umn.edu

In this workshop, participants will explore what negotiation really is (and what it is not), how to prepare for and execute a successful negotiation, and how to preserve a relationship when the negotiation is not successful. You’ll have opportunities to discuss, problem solve, and practice negotiation approaches relevant to common labor management situations. You’ll also get support and feedback developing a written plan for a negotiation that you anticipate in the coming months. The workshop is part of the 2022 Farm Labor Dashboard Workshop Series, which focuses on helping farmers build practical labor management knowledge and skills. 

Presenters: Mary Peabody and Beth Holtzman, University of Vermont Extension. 

Session Format: Sessions will be delivered via Zoom. Connection information, along with additional resources and information will be available through the workshop site. 

Fees. The workshop fee is $35. To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following button: 

Scholarships and multi-session discounts are available for all the workshop in the series, reducing the workshop fee to $20. However, these options are only available for people who request – and receive approval – for reduced fees in advance of registration and payment. To request either a multi-session discount or scholarship, please fill out this online form.

Please wait to register until you hear back from us via email. Decisions are generally made within 3 business days. If you are approved, you will receive a voucher code that you will use during the registration/payment process to activate a reduced registration fee for the workshops you indicated you wish to enroll in. 

This online class is the pre-requisite for completion of the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program, commonly known as Tractor Safety. It is open to youth 14 years of age and up and is required to work for someone other than family.  If a youth will turn 14 by August 1 they can take the course but will not receive  a certificate until they turn 14.

This online module will take approximately 8 hours to complete and must be completed before May 20, 2026.  Upon completion of this online module students must attend the in person session scheduled for May 22 from 8:30-4:30 at Chisholm Equipment, 594 N Commerce Ave, Harper, Kansas.    Certificates of completion will not be given until all online coursework is completed, attendance for in person session is documented, final written test is passed and the equipment operation test is passed.  

Thank you for joining our UC Master Gardeners of Napa County’s online training test program for 2021.  Your participation, and your feedback, will be important as we develop our new hybrid training program for certification.  The certification program will begin in January 2022—and your help in 2021 will be invaluable.

In this program, we will present six core topics. 
Introduction to Botany.

Living Soil, Till/No Till.

Water Management.

Entomology.

Plant Pathology.

UC IPM.

A new topic will be posted every two weeks, beginning Monday January 18, 2021.  Students will have two weeks to complete the required assignments.  Assignments will vary by topic, and may include reading, viewing a live or recorded presentation, participation in a live demonstration or follow-along with a hands-on project, participation in a live discussion with fellow students, completion of one or more worksheets, opportunity to dive deeper using suggested resources.

The audience for this UF/IFAS Extension Broward County Master Gardener Training Online course is students who have applied, interviewed, and been accepted into our program. This online component will be the main class platform in addition to weekly live Zoom meetings.

For more information or to enroll, please contact Steve Deegan –teacher and content specialist- UF/IFAS Extension Broward County, Urban Horticulture Education and Master Gardener Volunteer Coordinator stephen.deegan@ufl.edu

Understanding how a bit works in the horse's mouth will help you select the most appropriate bit for the job and appreciate the craftsmanship of well balanced and constructed bits.

The fee for this course is $10.  To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following button.

If you purchase at least $40 worth of courses from this category, you can receive a 20% discount by entering the voucher code of HorseQuest20.