Upcoming ANR Events

Join our Forsyth County Extension ANR staff on a lunchtime webinar, from 12pm-1pm,  and learn how to improve the landscape at your home!

April 2nd: Composting & Encouraging Biodiversity in your Landscape

April 9:  Native Plants & Water Conservation

April 16th:  Storm Water & Mulch in the Landscape, https://tinyurl.com/4j5w3hxf;  

April 23rd:  Invasive Plants & Welcoming Pollinators, https://tinyurl.com/ywpt8kk5;  

April 30th:  Welcoming Wildlife & Protecting Water Quality, https://tinyurl.com/2pbxftzy

Courses are no charge but registration is required. Registration is now open!

The Forsyth County Extension Office announces that its popular educational tree walks around various county parks and the Big Creek Greenway will resume in early April. These events which are free to the general public provide valuable instruction on the importance of native trees to the environment, why invasive species are of an increasing concern and how to identify various species. These walks will be led by experienced Forsyth County Master Naturalist Extension Volunteers. Each walk will be scheduled around some natural area in the county and will take place on sites that are easy to walk and that cover roughly one to one & one-half miles. Each walk will be preceded by a brief talk to acquaint attendees with the keys to identifying individual species. Here is the initial schedule of walks planned for this coming spring:

 April 25 (a Friday) at Sawnee Preserve (back entrance off Betis -Tribble Gap Road). We will meet at 5:30 pm in the parking lot.

 April 29 (a Tuesday) at Fowler Park which is off Highway 9 going toward Alpharetta. After entering the park, you would take a right into the street leading to the Big Creek Greenway and we will meet at 9:30 am in the parking lot a short distance from where you enter that street.

May 6 (a Tuesday) on the southernmost point of the Big Creek Greenway, beginning at the Halcyon Trailhead. We will meet at 1:30 pm in the parking lot of the Trailhead, which is directly across from Halcyon.

May 15 (a Thursday) at Windemere Parkway . We will meet in the p arking lot at 2:30 pm.

May 20 (a Tuesday) at Central Park off of Hwy 306 at 5:30 pm. We will meet in the parking lot outside of the Recreation Center.  

 If you would like to join us for one or more of these walks, please RSVP using this from so that we can prepare a sufficient number of handouts to accommodate the group: https://forms.gle/SR65SLj8DU8DoApb7

If you have questions about these events contact the Forsyth County Extension Office at 770-887-2418.