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
Upcoming Stewardship Workshop Series:
- Lake Tahoe Basin, Online May 14 - July 16, 2024, and in-person Saturday, June 8th. Registration is now open!
Visit our website for more information.
Post-Fire Forest Resilience Workshops
Upcoming workshop series
Spring 2024
Plumas & Lassen Counties
Tuesday evenings 6:00 to 7:30 pm on Zoom April 23 through May 21. With an in-person field trip day May 18.
Registration now open!
Master Food Preservers
The 2024 class of Master Food Preservers are about to receive 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
Master Gardener Training classes are taught in different counties each year throughout the Central Sierra region. Trainees may attend the training program in a different county than their home county. Classes for the four counties are currently underway:
- Amador: Happening now!
- Calaveras: Happening now!
- El Dorado: Happening now!
- Lake Tahoe Basin: Happening now!
- Tuolumne: Happening Now!
While it's too late to join the class of 2024, you can add your name to the interest list and you'll be notified about the next scheduled training class.
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 |
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Spring Plant Sale | 4/27/2024 |
With a Cherry On Top | 4/27/2024 |
Grow Your Imagination | 5/4/2024 |
Amador Plant Sale 2024 | 5/4/2024 |
Open Garden Day | 5/4/2024 |
Preparing for Wildfire: Hardening your Home and Creating Defensible Space | 5/15/2024 |
Open Garden Day | 6/1/2024 |
Safe & Sane Gardening | 6/12/2024 |
Public Education Class: Firewise and Waterwise | 6/22/2024 |
Open Garden Day | 7/13/2024 |
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