Extension Connection

We have exciting news and we are thrilled to share it with you! The Carlton Extension team is adding two new Educators and we invite you to join us on Tuesday, May 24th from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the Extension Office to welcome them. Stop in and say hello, tour the office and enjoy some refreshments. Both of our new staff members have been involved with Carlton County Extension in the past. Read more about each of them in this newsletter.

April 17 through 23 was national volunteer week! The Extension Office would like to give a big shout out to the hard-working group of Master Gardener volunteers in our county. This group of 29 certified gardeners must complete horticulture volunteer hours each year to maintain their Master Gardener status. In 2021 a total of 829 volunteer hours and 78 education hours were contributed to our community.

Projects the group is involved with include: Invasive weed research, a community plant sale, an annual garden tour of local landscapes, gardening presentations throughout the county, garden consultations for residents, question and answer booths at local events, county grounds beautification, an Arbor Day tree planting event, pollinator garden set up and maintenance, community garden involvement and many other volunteer projects.

If you are interested in becoming a Master Gardener or would like to be notified of events please contact Ann Rust at the Extension Office at rustx048@umn.edu or call 218-384-8684 for more information.

Registration is open for the Strategic Farming: Field Notes program. The Field Notes program is designed for farmers and agricultural professionals as a weekly webinar program addressing all your crop-related questions in real-time in an interactive, discussion-based format.

The Field notes program will begin on May 11th and will continue throughout the 2022 growing season on a weekly basis from 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday mornings.

For more information and to register for the live sessions: z.umn.edu/strategic-farming

The University of Minnesota Extension Beef Team and the Minnesota State Cattlemen's Association will host the 2022 Minnesota Summer Tour, a fun and educational event where attendees will have the opportunity to visit the UMN St. Paul campus and the Minnesota Zoo on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.

Stops on the tour include the UMN Andrew Boss Laboratory of Meat Science, UMN College of Veterinary Medicine, and UMN Forage Research plots. The tour includes a visit to the Minnesota Zoo where attendees will have exclusive access to the entire zoo from 4 to 8p.m.

Check in begins at 6 a.m. All buses leave from the Minnesota Zoo at 7 a.m. Please visit z.umn.edu/MNSummerBeefTour for more information and to register. Tickets are $25 prior to June 15th. Lunch and supper are included.

Did you know? It is important to schedule lawn care maintenance during times that match the life cycle of the turfgrass. Learn more about caring for your lawn through all seasons:

https://extension.umn.edu/planting-and-growing-guides/lawn-care-calendar

We are pleased to announce Katie Laveau as welcome our new 4-H Extension Educator. Katie grew up in Carlton County and took part in Carlton County 4-H program. She was involved in many general project areas along with showing rabbits, sheep, and horses. She also took part as a County Ambassador and a State Ambassador. She was a 4-H intern in Carlton County for two summers and has had positions in the past couple of years that have educated and helped youth succeed. She graduated from South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota with a bachelor’s degree in animal science business and production and agricultural leadership in 2019. She is excited to give other youth the experiences that she had as a 4-Her.

Growing up in Carlton on her family’s beef farm sparked a love of animals and interest in agriculture for Mercedes Moffett. She earned her bachelor’s degree in animal science from North Dakota State University and is working on the completion of a veterinary technician degree from Dakota County Technical College. Mercedes has experience as an Extension intern, interim Extension educator and has provided her agricultural expertise to the Extension Farm Information Line. Welcome Mercedes!

The much anticipated plant sale is back! Lots of perennials, vegetable starts, bulbs etc. will be available for $2, $3 and $5. Your local garden experts will be available to answer all of your gardening questions. This year will feature a white elephant table and a pollinator seed packet for the first 50 customers. The sale will be at Veteran's Park Pavilion in Cloquet, 508 Cloquet Ave. on Saturday June 4th from 9 am to sell out.

Emergency quarantine on wood movement put in place for portions of Carlton County and Lake County.

Read all about this recent discovery and register for a virtual informational meeting for residents and tree care professionals in Carlton and Lake counties on Monday, May 9, 2022. Experts from the MDA will give a brief presentation followed by a question-and-answer session.

https://extension.umn.edu/news/emerald-ash-borer-found-carlton-and-lake-counties

Plan to join us at the Carlton County Fair in Barnum, Minnesota. Our 4-H’ers have been working on projects all year and are excited and ready to showcase their animals, projects and more. Check out the latest resources for the Fair on our website: www.extension.umn.edu/carlton and look under “4-H at the Carlton County Fair”

Keri Cavitt, Regional Director cavit0065@umn.edu

Tracey Hartung, Administrative Specialist thartung@umn.edu

Brian Heilig, Minnesota GreenCorp Member heili065@umn.edu

Katie Laveau, 4-H Educator silt006@umn.edu

Mercedes Moffett, Agriculture Educator, moffe029@umn.edu

Ann Rust, Vol Coord & Horticulture Assist rustx048@umn.edu

Email: mnext-Carlton@umn.edu
Website: https://local.extension.umn.edu/local/carlton
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Phone: 218-384-3511
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