The Maple Hour: Bird-Friendly Maple 7-8 p.m. Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Jacob Crawford, forest ecologist with Audubon Upper Mississippi, joins The Maple Hour to talk about the Bird-Friendly Maple Project in Wisconsin. We’ll look at what makes a sugarbush bird-friendly and how Wisconsin maple syrup producers can participate in Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Maple Project. This is […]
Is your farm’s future on your mind? 🚜 The “Cultivating Your Farm’s Future” virtual workshop series is designed to help farm families like yours start their succession plans. Whether you’re the owner wondering how to transfer to the next generation, or the next generation with questions about your future role, multiple farm/family members are encouraged […]
The Green Thumb Gardening Fall Series will help you bring color to your fall garden and prepare you for a successful spring. Classes cover a wide range of autumn-themed and other topics from ornamental grasses, to bulbs, to getting the garden ready for winter. All gardeners from the novice to the experienced are welcome! Classes […]
Adult Mental Health First Aid for Wisconsin Agriculture Community – June 17 & 19 University of Wisconsin – Madison Division of Extension is offering a virtual education program to help the Wisconsin agriculture community identify and respond to a variety of behavioral health challenges. The next virtual Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for the agriculture […]
For the Week of March 17, 2025 By: Bruce Spangenberg, Horticulture Outreach Specialist Plants Patiently Wait for Spring Spring officially arrives on the calendar this week. Recent weather has fluctuated between some very spring like days back to more like winter across Wisconsin. Plants are not likely to get fooled into growing too soon by […]
For the Week of March 10, 2025 By: Bruce Spangenberg, Horticulture Outreach Specialist Pruning Planner for Evergreen Shrubs Evergreen shrubs are key components of the landscape, and to look their best, they will occasionally need maintenance pruning. Larger, older overgrown plants call for major pruning. Exact pruning techniques vary with species and even cultivars […]
The Forest County Clean and Green club is offering an introduction to beekeeping workshop series offered by high school students Isak Drangsveit and Bryce Marshall and local community member Jill Krueger. The series is designed for beginning beekeepers and individuals who are already beekeepers who may want to join a community of beekeepers. The workshops […]
