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Texas Agriculture Lifetime Leadership members tour East Texas

February 5, 2020

Source: AgriLife Today

Members of the 16th Gov. Dolph Briscoe Jr. Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership program visited East Texas recently to add to their statewide perspective on agriculture in the Lone Star State.

TALL, administered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, provides knowledge and understanding of agriculture and related industries in today’s complex economic, political and social systems, Jim Mazurkiewicz, Ph.D., leadership program director, College Station, said.

Bexar County Master Gardener Intern Training Class accepting applications

May 20, 2019

Source: AgriLife Today

The texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Bexar county is accepting applications for Master Gardener Intern Training Class No. 63 to be held Wednesdays from Aug.21 – Nov. 13 at its offices in San Antonio.

Topics for this training will include Earth-Kind landscaping, integrated pest management, home orchards and vegetable gardens, water conservation, rainwater harvesting and turfgrass selection and care.

Volunteers remove 3,640 pounds of trash, debris during Geronimo, Alligator creeks clean-up

May 7, 2019

Source: AgriLife Today

Ninety-nine volunteers worked to remove 3,640 pounds of trash and debris from 12 miles of roadside areas that drain to area creeks during the recent seventh Annual Geronimo and Alligator Creeks Clean-Up event.

Geronimo Creek, and its tributary Alligator Creek, flows through Comal and Guadalupe counties. Both were identified for watershed protection plan development due to elevated levels of bacteria and concerns about high levels of nitrogen, as reported in the Texas Water Quality Inventory published by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.