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
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 |
|---|---|
| Gifts from the Kitchen (in person - Jackson) | 11/16/2024 |
| New Adult Volunteer Orientation (Virtual) | 11/19/2024 |
| Make & Take: Can Your Own Turkey Stock (in person - Placerville) | 12/7/2024 |
| Food Preservation Basics: Freezing & Dehydrating - Online | 1/9/2025 |
| New Adult Volunteer Orientation (Virtual) | 1/29/2025 |
| New Adult Volunteer Orientation (Virtual) | 3/27/2025 |
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
Backyard Beekeeping Series
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