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Everyday Essentials: Teaching Teens the Skills That Matter Most

Published - August 22, 2025

Take a walk in the gardens to learn about plants for your landscape. Photo courtesy of Amy Mead

Growing Together: Extension and the Arboretum

Published - August 15, 2025

Various Counties Attending the Clover Gala

Exploring the Future at 4-H Congress

Published - August 8, 2025

A large-scale rainwater harvesting cistern at the New Hanover County Arboretum

Impervious Surface Disconnections – Gutters and Rain Barrels

Published - August 1, 2025

Children learning in the herb garden

A Beginner’s Guide to Field Journaling

Published - July 29, 2025

Passion Flower

Invasives to Avoid This Summer and What to Plant Instead

Published - July 25, 2025

How to Become Less Toxic: Integrated Pest Management Techniques

Published - July 24, 2025

4-H youth presenting how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at county activity day 2025 - provided by Megan Sweeney

Voices of the Future: Why Youth Public Speaking Matters

Published - July 18, 2025

Orange and black insect on a green leaf with water droplets

IPM Approaches for Summer Garden Challenges

Published - July 11, 2025

Emergency 4-n-1 Flash Light and Radio for Hurricane EmergencyKit

Planning Ahead for Hurricane Season in North Carolina

Published - July 2, 2025

A parasitoid wasp, possibly Pteromalidae, reared from an infestation of crape myrtle bark scale (Eriococcus lagerstroemiae) Photo credit Helena Jolly (1)

Parasitoids: Unsung Garden Heroes

Published - June 30, 2025

A pond with a robust vegetated shelf.

Retrofitting Stormwater Ponds for Improved Performance

Published - June 20, 2025

Arboretum Pond in 1980s

How the Arboretum Took Root

Published - June 13, 2025

Child Working in Garden

Nature's Class Room

Published - June 6, 2025

Baby yellow bellied slider turtle

Our Scaly Neighbors

Published - May 30, 2025

Summertime CSA haul from Red Beard Farms

Spring Leafy Greens

Published - May 23, 2025

Rise Up Community Garden

Planting Purpose

Published - May 16, 2025

Highway rest area cypress swamp

Mental Wellness & Nature

Published - May 14, 2025

Sandy beach shoreline with waves and dark storm clouds approaching

Citizen Science Program Needs Your Help Observing the Weather!

Published - April 29, 2025

NC Hosts National Urban Extension Leaders Regional Conference May 6-8

Published - April 11, 2025

From: Durham County Center

The darn cutest corn snake you've ever seen

Vote for the Name of Our New 4-H Corn Snake!

Published - April 4, 2025

Participants selecting seeds

Seed Starting Workshops Spark Growing Enthusiasm in New Hanover County

Published - March 31, 2025

New Hanover County Arboretum's Stormwater Infiltration Zone (SWIZ)

Stormwater 101 - Noticing the Small Things

Published - March 28, 2025

a group of purple leaf galls at the tip of a holly branch

Published - March 17, 2025

nature at home yard sign

New Hanover County Extension Master Gardener’s Nature at Home Update

Published - January 10, 2025

New Consumer Horticulture Agent in New Hanover

Published - January 10, 2025

A Gulf fritillary butterfly. PROVIDED BY GABRIELLA DE SOUZA

Arboretum/Cooperative Extension Highlights of 2024!

Published - January 3, 2025

Group of children and adults posing on grass by a basketball hoop outdoors

2024 Reflections: New Hanover County 4-H’s Brightest Moments

Published - January 2, 2025

Rudbeckia_Blooms

Garden Resolutions for 2025: Growing a Greener Future

Published - December 21, 2024

NC youth institute is Friday, April 11, 2025

Be a Hunger Hero: 2025 North Carolina Youth Institute

Published - October 20, 2024

From: Grow For It

perennial border

Intelligent Pest Monitoring and Control

Published - October 10, 2024

Graphic for 2024 Annual AHTA Conference

2024 American Horticulture Therapy Conference in Raliegh Durham This October

Published - July 16, 2024

artwork of owls on rock located in Berkshire Botanical Gardens

American Public Gardens-Annual Conference: Rooted in Resilience

Published - July 8, 2024

Monarch butterfliy on a native milkweed plant.

Published - July 8, 2024

flyer for NCCEAPA 50 50 raffle

NCCEAPA Raffle to Support Admins

Published - July 5, 2024

Therapeutic horticulture gardening benefits NC State Extension New Hanover County

An NC State Extension Agent Promotes Nature as a Healer

Published - May 7, 2024

From: NC State Extension

Friends of the Arboretum Update

Published - May 3, 2024

metal earth sculpture with green plant vine inside

New Trees and Shrubs Added to Arboretum Collections

Published - April 17, 2024

New Hanover County 4-H Awards Night

New Hanover County 4-H Awards Night

Published - February 20, 2024

brochure featuring information about nature at home

Nature at Home EMG Volunteers Recognized With NACo Award & Statewide Learn-Grow-Share Webinar for EMG Volunteers

Published - January 23, 2024

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