Learn the process for identifying plant problems in your own trees, landscape and garden and be prepared for the next growing season! This course explains the basics of the plant diagnostic process in an easy-to-understand way. This is a moderated course, held February 1-April 30, 2024. Course access through December 31, 2024.

The early bird pricing of $99 is available until January 21, 2024. This is the last chance!

Join the UW-Madison Division of Extension’s Agriculture Water Quality Program for a biweekly webinar series that will focus on the important factors impacting ground and surface water quality.

Each webinar will be an hour, starting at 12:00pm, and will have available one soil and water continuing education credit for certified crop advisors. Registration is free but required. Please contact Laura Paletta with questions, paletta@wisc.edu.

Wise Wisconsin Virtual Learning Series is being presented by Life Span-Division of Extension to bring a series of educational, virtual learning opportunities to your finger tips!

Since the Fall of 2022, Community Development Extension Educators from across the state delivered three grant writing workshops, where a total of approximately 225 participants from nonprofits to local governments learned the basics of grant writing. Grant writing is an essential skill for building organizational and financial capacity. 

 Are you a nonprofit, business, or government leader in Wisconsin in need of grant writing skills? Sign up for this informative and hands-on virtual training on grant writing. 

You will learn the outline of a common grant proposal, where to look for funding for your organization, the most common grant writing mistakes and MORE!

Experienced Extension Educators from Kewaunee & Brown Counties, Winnebago & Outagamie Counties, Sawyer County & Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe, and Wood County will co-lead the workshop to make it informative, fun, and interactive!

 Language interpretation available in Hmong/Hmoob and Spanish. Request interpretation by February 9.

Please join us and volunteer at our seed packing events. We will be gathering at the Brown County Central Library in the basement to clean and pack seeds. Events will be held January 20 & February 3. These events will be broken up into sessions. Session 1 is held from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., while Session 2 will be held from 12:30 - 3 p.m.

Central Library address: 515 Pine St, Green Bay, WI 54301

Many seeds need a cold period to germinate, and gardeners can reuse plastic containers to create a protected environment ideal for sowing seeds outdoors in winter that will germinate as the weather warms. Participants of this January 27th workshop will learn what kinds of seeds can be winter sown (natives and veggies), as well as when and how to sow them, including seed stratification and scarification. Following a presentation and demonstration, participants can create their own mini greenhouses using 2-quart juice bottles.

Some juice bottles as well as select seeds and soil will be provided.

Presented by Claudia Schultz, Master Gardener Lead for the Native Locktenders Garden in De Pere, along with Peggy Loritz, Annette Weissbach and Kathy Amenson, also from Northeastern Wisconsin Master Gardener Association.

This workshop is part of a monthly series organized by the Brown County Seed Library. The BCSL is a collaboration of Brown County Community Gardens Program; Brown County Library; Green Bay Botanical Garden; New Leaf Foods, Inc.; NEW Master Gardeners Association; UW-Green Bay and UW-Madison Extension Brown County.

Event will be in Combined Meeting Rooms 1 & 2.

Learn recommended tools and techniques to promote health, aesthetics and production through the “right cut” in pruning various species and cultivars. Dress for the weather! After an indoor presentation, head outside for real-life pruning of the small fruit trees in the library’s Children’s Edible Garden. Plus, get instructive handouts, recipes from Rooted In’s Chef Selena Darrow, and a brief overview of the local Food Forest initiative.

Led by Andy DiMezza, arborist and graduate of the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He has taught pruning classes in Milwaukee through the Victory Garden Initiative’s Fruity Nutty Program and the Peoples Orchard, and he now shares his expertise through the local nonprofit Rooted In, Inc.

This workshop is part of a monthly series organized by the Brown County Seed Library. The BCSL is a collaboration of Brown County Community Gardens Program; Brown County Library; Green Bay Botanical Garden; New Leaf Foods, Inc.; NEW Master Gardeners Association; UW-Green Bay and UW-Madison Extension Brown County.

Located in Combined Meeting Room 1 & 2 on February 17th.

Nonprofit Leader Conversations

Reporting and Managing Grants

It’s great to be awarded a grant, but then the work begins. Grant management requires good project management and recordkeeping. Please join us with our guest, Bev Scow, Executive Director at Wise Women Gathering Place, to dialog about strategies to manage grants—reporting, tracking, spending—all the stuff you need to do when a grant is obtained.

Nonprofit Leader Conversations

Creating & Using Videos on Social Media

Video is an engaging and impactful way to communicate with your social media audience. Megan Roshak from Gillespie Productions will be our guest for a conversation on how to create and share videos on social media.

Extension Brown County
2019 Technology Way
Green Bay, WI 54311
920-391-4610

extension@browncountywi.gov