Events & Workshops
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UCCE Central Sierra offers you plenty of opportunities to learn!
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Master Food Preservers
Congratulations to the Class of 2023 Statewide Master Food Preservers.
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.
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 tentatively scheduled as follows:
- Amador: 2024
- Calaveras: Happening now!
- El Dorado: 2024
- Lake Tahoe Basin: 2024
- Tuolumne: Happening Now!
Forest Stewardship Workshops
San Bernardino County, Online September 6 - November 1, 2023 and in-person Saturday, September 23rd. Registration now open!
Santa Clara County, Fall 2023. Registration coming soon.
UC California Naturalist Program
Become a UC Certified Naturalist or Climate Steward
There are Pepperwood Preserve and Columbia College courses coming up early in 2023!
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 |
|---|---|
| First Saturday Garden Tour | 10/7/2023 |
| Landscape Grasses | 10/7/2023 |
| Open Garden Day | 10/7/2023 |
| Grow and Preserve Citrus - Combo Class | 10/11/2023 |
| Ask a UC Master Food Preserver - Online! | 10/11/2023 |
| Fermentation 102 (in person- Jackson) | 10/28/2023 |
| Open Garden Day (Sherwood Demonstration Garden) | 10/28/2023 |
| Starthistle Management | 11/4/2023 |
Would you like information about our workshops?
We offer many workshops throughout the year on various subject matter such as, Agriculture, Small Farms, Pond Management, Invasive Weed Control, and Wildfire - Protecting Your Home, just to name a few. Please add your name to our mailing list to receive information on our next workshop.
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