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Edgecombe Extension Open House

Edgecombe County Extension Open House

Come out and meet your County Extension staff. We will host an Open House event on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from 4-6pm at the Carmon Auditorium in Tarboro. Come learn about all Cooperative…

Tomato plant with one ripe red tomato, one green tomato, and wilted leaves

Septoria Leaf Spot Is Claiming Our Tomatoes!

Whoever said that “life is not fair” must have been a tomato grower. For 2025, home grown tomatoes which began with beautiful, healthy vines have now diminished into dried, diseased plants waiting to…

Are you up to the task of choosing a ripe watermelon?

Searching for a Ripe Watermelon

If there are two words that belong in the same sentence, they are “summer” and “watermelon.” As a boy growing up on a tobacco farm in Oak City, North Carolina, eating a cold, sweet watermelon was one…

Hand placing peeled tomatoes into glass mason jar for canning

2025 Home Food Preservation Classes

Join us for a series of home food preservation classes that will include learning to can sweet spreads, a salsa class, and how to pressure can. Canning is an art and a fun skill to learn.…

Mason jars of canned fruit with text "Save the Dates" for 2025 food preservation workshops

2025 Home Food Preservation Classes - Save the Dates

It will be canning season again very soon. Please save these dates for our upcoming home food preservation programs. Each program will be offered twice. We will offer a daytime and an evening…

Hand placing peeled tomatoes into glass mason jar for canning

2023 Home Food Preservation Classes

The days are getting longer and the temperature is rising and gardens are being planted. Now is the time to begin thinking about how you are going to preserve the abundance of produce you will have…

Seven Mason jars with Ball lids in a steaming water-bath canner on a stovetop

2021 Home Food Preservation Classes Announced

The dates have been set for the 2021 Virtual Home Food Preservation Classes. Go ahead and mark the dates and times down on your calendar. This year we will have 5 Home Food Preservation Classes and…