ATHENS â University of Georgia Cooperative Extension is offering a new virtual seminar, âSolar Energy in Rural Georgia: Opportunities and Considerations for Landowners,â on June 8.
The event, set for 9:30-11:30 a.m. on Zoom, is structured to help landowners understand the benefits and possible liabilities of hosting solar panels on their land. The event is free and open to the public, but participants must register at zoom.us.
Investing in solar panels as an energy provider or leasing to outside companies has been a growing topic in the last few years, and UGA Extension offices have recently been fielding more questions on the subject.
ATHENS â Carpenter bees are a common sight this time of year and can cause aggravation for homeowners. The large, black and yellow bees begin emerging in March, April and May and can cause unsightly damage â and in some cases significant damage â to wooden structures like the eaves of houses, porches and decks.
The carpenter bee got its name because of its ability to tunnel in wood with its jaws. The female bees create half-inch, round holes in wood to lay their eggs. Some signs of carpenter bees are sawdust that can be found on the ground or on the surface of an object beneath the hole. The holes lead to short tunnels into the wood and run horizontally with the grain.
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âWe held the in-person class on Tuesday nights from 6 until 8 p.m. We had a limit of 15 people, but sometimes only five to six students would attend,â Soltanmammedova, who has served as a Family and Consumer Sciences agent in Cobb County since 2018, said.
She ran the class through the summer, registering up to 120 participants in June and July as families sought at-home social activities to engage their kids while isolating due to the pandemic.
Arnett C. Mace Jr., former UGA provost and Warnell School dean, dies
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Arnett Mace
Arnett C. Mace Jr., who served as the University of Georgia’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost and was previously dean of the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, died Monday at the age of 83.
Mace served as provost from 2003 to 2010 and spearheaded several initiatives that promoted excellence in instruction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Task Force for General Education and Student Learning that he charged, for example, led to several enhancements to the learning environment and an increased use of technology in the classroom and innovative teaching techniques.
ATHENS â For home gardeners who are seeing brown areas in their landscape trees or hedges where they should be seeing green, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension can help. Wet winters and severe weather have been causing disease and other issues in landscape plants, especially Leyland cypress and boxwood.
Over the last few years, there has been an increase in samples of these species to UGAâs Plant Disease Clinic, according to extension plant pathologist Jean Williams-Woodward in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Boxwood blight, first discovered in Georgia in 2014, has hit hard in established landscapes in cities including Atlanta, Augusta and Madison. Rapid defoliation is a characteristic symptom of boxwood blight that separates it from other boxwood diseases, and it can move quickly through landscapes, especially with wet weather.