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UGA Extension Banks County links the resources of the University of Georgia and Banks County to provide educational programs, information, and assistance to the citizens of Banks County. UGA Extension Banks County helps the citizens of Banks County by addressing the following initiatives:
- Family and Economic Well-Being
- Conservation and Management of Natural Resources
- Agriculture Programming and Research Opportunities
- Improving Nutrition, Diet and Health
- Revitalizing Rural America
- Water Quality
- Youth Leadership
- 4-H Youth Development Program
- Service Learning/Citizenship
If you'd like to learn about building a safer environment for your children or protecting the environment we all share, avoiding chronic diseases like diabetes with healthy food or training food handlers in your cafeteria, the University of Georgia Extension program is the place to start.
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Learning for Life is the goal of the department which, in turn, helps citizens make informed decisions with research based non-biased information. Just call 1-800-ASK-UGA1 (275-8421) from anywhere in Georgia. You'll be automatically connected to the UGA Extension office in that county.
UGA Extension Banks County
413 Evans Street
P.O. Box 157
Homer, GA 30547
Phone: (706) 677-6230
Fax: (706) 677-6233
Email: uge1011@uga.edu
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Upcoming Events in Banks County and Beyond
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Mar 18 Seed Starting It is time to start dreaming of summer veggies. Join us at our March Green Thumb Lecture to talk Learn how to jumpstart you summer garden by planting seeds indoors, now. Topics we will cover include - Which seeds can be started indoors Materials Timing Watering
- Bogart, GA - (31.0 Miles)
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Mar 19 Warm Season Lawn Care: Zoom Program In this Zoom program, we will focus primarily on Zoysiagrass, Bermudagrass, and Centipedegrass as we learn how to care for each of these grasses in the landscape.
- Virtual Event
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Mar 19 Right Bite Diabetes Cooking School The program is designed to help individuals learn the skills to eat healthy to manage their diabetes or to cook and plan meals for someone in their care who has diabetes.
- Winder, GA - (29.0 Miles)
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Mar 19 Plant Propagation and Selection Banks County Extension is offering monthly consumer horticulture classes as part of our HOMERgrown initiative to help scrappy folks stay self sufficient. March's program is going to focus on choosing plants for our gardens that are resilient, useful, and can be easily propagated through seed or cutting. We will also discuss how to collect, clean and store seeds and how to care for cuttings to increase success in propagation. We are fortunate to have the great Rachel Smith from the Georgia Botanical Garden's Georgia Seed Network to lead this class.
- Homer, GA
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Mar 21 - Mar 22 Cloverleaf District Project Achievement (Grades 4 - 6) - Jackson County District Project Achievement Competition for Grades 4 - 6. https://georgia4h.org/cloverleaf-project-achievement-grades-4-6/
- Athens, GA - (23.0 Miles)
