Events & Workshops
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UCCE Central Sierra offers plenty of opportunities to learn!
If you don't see what you're looking for below, please visit our individual program websites for more.
Forest Stewardship Workshops
Check back for the link to the next Stewardship Workshop Series:
Visit our website for more information.
Post-Fire Forest Resilience Workshops
Post-Fire Workshop Series
Upcoming workshop series
Summer 2024
El Dorado, Placer, Amador Counties: Tuesday evenings 6:00 to 7:30 pm on Zoom July 16 through August 13. With an in-person field trip day Saturday August 10.
Registration now open!
Master Food Preservers
The 2024 class of Master Food Preservers are have received their badges!
If you or someone you know has more than a passing fondness for food preservation, you may want to sign up for the next cohort of Master Food Preserver Training, tentatively scheduled to begin in 2025.
Master Gardeners of Central Sierra
The 2024 Master Gardener Training is complete! Congratulations to all of the new Master Gardener Volunteers!
Master Gardener Training classes are taught in different counties each year throughout the Central Sierra region. Information will be updated as the new trainings are scheduled. Please check back or add your name to the interest list.
- Amador
- Calaveras
- El Dorado
- Lake Tahoe Basin
- Tuolumne
UC California Naturalist Program
Become a UC Certified Naturalist or Climate Steward
California Oak Health Online Workshop
Recorded webinars
Oak enthusiasts, landowners, natural resource managers, and foresters are invited to join us for a series of virtual talks and a live Q&A session discussing the challenges faced by California’s native oak trees and oak woodlands.
- Conservation of Oregon white oak and Ca black oak woodlands
- Sudden oak death and other Phytophthora problems in oaks and tanoak
- Wildfire in tanoak and Ca black oak, blue oak, and interior live oak woodlands
- A new, non-native beetle threat to valley oaks
Online webinars: http://ucanr.edu/OakHealth
IPM Pesticide Safety Training
Assembly Bill 589 Training Classes
Water diversion: monitoring and reporting training workshops
Event Calendar
| Event Name | Date |
|---|---|
| Ask a UC Master Food Preserver - Online! | 7/10/2024 |
| Introduction to Freeze Drying (in person - Placerville) | 7/13/2024 |
| Gardening witih Native Plants | 7/13/2024 |
| Open Garden Day | 7/13/2024 |
| What To Do With All Those Tomatoes! (in person - Jackson) | 7/20/2024 |
| Crazy for Condiments (in person - Placerville) | 7/20/2024 |
| Pruning and Care of Fruit Trees in Summer | 7/27/2024 |
| Open Garden Day | 8/3/2024 |
| New Adult Volunteer Orientation (Virtual) | 8/6/2024 |
| All About Berries | 8/14/2024 |
Would you like information about our workshops?
We offer many workshops throughout the year on various subject matter such as, Agriculture, Small Farms, Food Preservation, Invasive Weed Control, and Wildfire - Protecting Your Home, just to name a few. Please add your name to our mailing list to receive information about what's happening at the UC Cooperative Extension in Central Sierra.
Past Workshops
Biological Control for Foothill Farmers
California Smart Landscaping Conference
Cover Cropping presentations
Grape Day Presentations
Irrigation Workshop
Mushroom Cultivation
On-the-Road in the Foothills Workshop
Pasture Management Workshop for Small Acreages
Raising Backyard Chickens Workshop
Small Farm Planning
Tree Fruit Meeting Presentations
Tree Mortality: Train the Trainer Presentations
Vittorino Novello Italian Varieties Presentation
Yellow Starthistle & Invasive Weeds Presentations