Brighter & Warmer Days Are Ahead - June Newsletter
June 1, 2021
Meet Our New Administrative Support Specialist – Melena Dillingham Cooperative Extension is Fully Staffed Again!!
A New Face To Greet You
Henderson County Cooperative Extension has a new face to greet clients as they come through our doors. Melena Dillingham joined the Extension staff on May 1 as our new Administrative Support Specialist.
“To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play,” Albert Einstein
Bullington has long been a place for many students to learn about science through nature, but after a long year, we’re alsogiving them an opportunity to expand their imagination. Creativity and imagination help children learn to be problem solvers, think up new ideas, and improve I.Q. And the fairy gardens are all about imagination.
You may have heard in the news about the 17-year’ periodical cicada’ Brood X that will be making noise in certain areas of the country. That is true. In places like Washington DC, north Georgia, east Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio the noisy insects will create a noise as loud as a lawnmower, ruining outdoor events and disturbing patio sitters.
In the early 1970s when Bob Bullington established his home, garden and nursery on what is now Bullington Gardens, he collected many interesting and unusual plants. At the time, plants from Asia were gaining in popularity in the U.S. and Bullington took part in that wave.
Each month, NC EFNEP (Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program) provides a Facebook Live session where a guest chef demonstrates a delicious and simple recipe for families to try at home. This month’s Facebook live will....
Agents Steve Pettis and Karen Blaedow are partnering with Henderson County Soil & Water Conservation District to host an Invasive Plant ID and Removal Workshop on Friday, June 11 from 9:30am-12:00pm on the campus of Rugby Middle School and you are invited! Whether you are interested in invasive plant removal or you just want to volunteer to help protect WNCstreambanks this workshop is for you.
After a year apart we are happy to announce that the 2021 Tomato Field Day is scheduled to be in-person at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research & Extension Center on Thursday, August 12, 2021. Save the Date for this wonderful event!
NC State University and N.C. A&T State University work in tandem, along with federal, state and local governments, to form a strategic partnership called N.C. Cooperative Extension.
