This six-part webinar series is designed to help participants:

.  Gain control over spending

.  Develop a plan to achieve financial goals

.  Reduce expenses and debt

.  Increase savings

.  Understand insurance needs

* * Participants should attend all 6 sessions.  Sessions are scheduled for the following dates:

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Location: Portsmouth Commercial Fishing Pier

Join local fishermen and chefs in support and celebration of our local fishing industry:
- Taste fresh and local fish species
- Taste Red Hook Brewery's "Black Lobstah Lagah"
- Meet local fishermen, brewers, and chefs
- Learn what you can do to support this 400 year old industry

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Presented by Belknap County Master Gardener Karen Ober.  For more information, contact Karen at backdoorfarm@aol.com.

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Training topics to include creating collaborative relationships, designing processes to meet the needs of specific groups, developing intentional facilitation practices and use mapping to design meetings and identifying behaviors that impact group process.

Presented by: Sue Cagle, Field Specialist, Belknap County UNH Cooperative Extension and Thom Linehan, Field Specialist, Merrimack County UNH Cooperative Extension

An Educational Series for New Hampshire Tree Farmers and people interested in learning more about woodlot care and management. Join us for a series of programs focusing on the cornerstone themes of sustainable Tree Farm management: wood, water, wildlife, and recreation!

Join Tree Farmer and Plymouth State University Ecology Professor Len Reitsma for some close encounters with birds. Len and graduate student, Meagan Bassett will mist net birds and discuss the different habitats they frequent. Len has created openings and clearings throughout his 112-acre Tree Farm to evaluate how different bird species respond to and utilize the different opening sizes. Len and Meagan will also demonstrate bird banding. This workshop is a great opportunity to see birds up close and learn about their preferred habitats, as well as to bring home ideas about how you can enhance bird habitat on your property.

Training topics to include creating collaborative relationships, designing processes to meet the needs of specific groups, developing intentional facilitation practices and use mapping to design meetings and identifying behaviors that impact group process.

Presented by: Sue Cagle, Field Specialist, Belknap County UNH Cooperative Extension and Thom Linehan, Field Specialist, Merrimack County UNH Cooperative Extension

8:00 – 9:00 Registration, meet at the UNH Sawmill, 248 Mast Rd, Durham

9:00 – 10:00 Welcome and introductions, visit UNH sawmill, travel to field sites

Long Tour - 10:00 – 12:15 Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) insectary and New England cottontail habitat.

Short Tours
10:00 – 10:45 Forestry—with cows in mind?

11:15 – 12:15 Researching effective invasive species control.

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch at UNH Holloway Commons—not your ordinary dining hall.

Afternoon Activity 1:45 - 3:45 A walk through College Woods

Master Gardener, Aaron Kinne, of UNH Cooperative Extension's Speakers' Bureau, will be presenting a talk on IPM - Integrated Pest Management - in your home gardens.

Learn about the IPM process, pest control rules and goals, and how to practice IPM in your gardens.

A fundraiser for NH Farm to School program through the UNH Sustainability Institute. This day will feature the Merrimack Valley Bee Club, Conservation District Soil Booth, Master Gardeners will talk about chickens and turkeys,and will man the Ask a Master Gardener booth and answer all of your gardening questions. The NH Llama Association and NH Ag in the Classroom will also be on hand. Learn about carding and spinning - eat locally made ice cream and soup from the Soup Guy Catering while you enjoy music by Don Watson. A family fun farm day for all!

The next New Hampshire 4-H Horse Advisory Council Meeting is on Tuesday June 4^th at 7 pm at the Merrimack County Office in Boscawen, NH.  At that meeting, we will have Dr. Nicole Giguere from the NH State Veterinary Office discuss Equine Infectious Anemia and we will be voting on whether we want to start requiring that at 4-H Horse Shows.  Coggins testing is required for Eastern States Exposition.  The rest of the meeting will be devoted to discussing the State 4-H Horse Show. 

Topics Covered: basic GIS concepts, free GIS and mapping software, types of GIS data

Learn GIS basics and explore a variety of free GIS and mapping programs (for PC's and Macs)! You will be introduced to the basic concepts of GIS, explore the variety of GIS and mapping software available for free, learn GIS jargon and understand both the applications and the limitations of GIS. This course is useful for people who have no prior GIS experience and new GIS users.

Participants will learn to: "talk the talk" of GIS by learning basic terminology describe the applications and limitations of GIS, understand the pros and cons of free GIS and mapping software options, download free GIS data.

For a list of workshop CEU's click here

Take a variety of full-functioned, free GIS programs for a test drive! After a brief intro to the software covered in this workshop, hands-on exercises will provide a framework to learn the basics of the programs, including how to create own maps, edit GIS data and do basic processing. Paritipants are encouraged to bring their own data to use after they understand the basics of the software.

For a list of workshop CEU's click here 

This workshop will provide you with an overview of the latest trends in marketing local food and local products. During this session, we will explore innovative trends, as well as marketing strategies and risks to consider.

Whether your business is new, or you have been selling your products for several years, this program offers the latest information for what you need to know to be successful.

For detailed agenda, please see attached flyer and registration form. Please mail registration form by Friday, May 31st for planning purposes.

Local Food: Innovative Direct Marketing Strategies for Success Flyer 

This is the first of two clinics being offered. The next one will be on June 29th at the Carroll County Farm in Ossipee.

These two educational events will provide blood drawing, optional rabies vaccination, and information about zoonotic diseases, their transmission, and the best management practices to avoid milk contamination. These clinics are for backyard dairy goat owners. Limit to 5 milking goats per person.

For a line up of speakers and topics, be sure to print out the attached flyer.

Lunch is not provided so please bring a bag lunch.

All participants must bring a valid NH driver's license to verify a physical address the day of the clinic. The clinic is open to NH residents only.

Owners of dairy cows, sheep, and those with more than 5 milking goats should contact a practicing veterinarian to set up Brucellosis and Tb testing. These owners are welcome to attend the educational talks. The NH Dept of Agriculture, Markets & Food, also conducts testing annually during the winter in various regions in the state.

To register for this June 8th event, go to: https://www.events.unh.edu/RegistrationForm.pm?event_id=14938;on_update=OQrefresh;mode=vie

To register for the June 29th event in Ossipee, go to: https://www.events.unh.edu/RegistrationForm.pm?event_id=14940

Or mail in the form found on the attached brochure with a check made payable to: UNH Cooperative Extension, and mail to: UNHCE, BSC Office - Attn: Brucellosis Clinic, 59 College Road, Durham, NH 03824.

Registration must be received no later than May 31, 2013.

ServSafe® is a nationally recognized food safety certification program of the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF). Participants passing the exam with a grade of 75% or higher will receive ServSafe® Food Safety Certification from NRAEF. Certification is valid for five years.

Instructor: Ann Hamilton

Learn the ins and outs of working with ArcGIS 10.1 in a hands-on learning environment! This course is useful for people who have no prior GIS experience, as well as those who have used ArcGIS, but are new to ArcGIS 10.1 With a focus on New Hampshire data and applications, participants learn how to use ArcGIS 10.1 to produce attractive, effective maps. Data processing and data editing technigues are also covered.

For a list of workshop CEU's click here

Learn the ins and outs of working with ArcGIS 10.1 in a hands-on learning environment! This course is useful for people who have no prior GIS experience, as well as those who have used ArcGIS, but are new to ArcGIS 10.1 With a focus on New Hampshire data and applications, participants learn how to use ArcGIS 10.1 to produce attractive, effective maps. Data processing and data editing technigues are also covered.

For a list of workshop CEU's click here

Learn the ins and outs of working with ArcGIS 10.1 in a hands-on learning environment! This course is useful for people who have no prior GIS experience, as well as those who have used ArcGIS, but are new to ArcGIS 10.1 With a focus on New Hampshire data and applications, participants learn how to use ArcGIS 10.1 to produce attractive, effective maps. Data processing and data editing technigues are also covered.

For a list of workshop CEU's click here

An Educational Series for New Hampshire Tree Farmers and people interested in learning more about woodlot care and management. Join us for a series of programs focusing on the cornerstone themes of sustainable Tree Farm management: wood, water, wildlife, and recreation!

Are there places on your property that you like to visit? Would you like to create a map of the trails on your woodlot or locate and mark your boundaries? On June 20th we will meet at Levey Park in Alton to learn the basics of using GPS to navigate around your woodlot and to do simple mapping. This course covers the basics of GPS technology, how to collect waypoints and how to navigate to points you have collected. In this workshop we will use GPS units to collect information about these sorts of features. Wendy Scribner and Andy Fast, Field Specialists with UNH Cooperative Extension will show you the how to collect
information as well as how to navigate with GPS. Garmin GPS units will be provided. Attendance is limited to 15 people.

New Hampshire 4-H "All About the Dogs" Weekend

I hope you will join us at our 16th annual “All About The Dogs” 4-H Dog Weekend. Our goal is to provide a great fun filled canine training/themed weekend for 4-H children enrolled in the 4-H Dog Program or children interested in joining. We want to give an opportunity to learn new things, meet new people, visit old friends, get ready for the upcoming 4-H show season, and of course, have FUN with our dogs. We hope to expose the participants to activities and trainings seminars that they might not have the opportunity to see and experience through their local 4-H group. We have had, and hope to continue to have, 4-Hers from all over New England come to this weekend.

Join us for the 1st Annual New Hampshire 4-H Poultry Clinic at the 4-H Youth Center in New Boston, NH.  There will be seminars, workshops, and fitting and showmanship clinics. 

There will be two sessions to choose from on June 22, 2013 at a farm in Chichester, NH. The first will be from 8:00 am - 10:00 am. The second workshop runs from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.  Once you have registered on-line, you will receive a letter with directions to the farm.

This workshop is for anyone considering or already raising chickens for meat. You will learn hands-on knowledge and build confidence in the proper processing of a chicken in a humane and efficient manner. This workshop will be operating under an approved protocol from the UNH Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), and taught by Victor Huse, a 3rd generation backyard livestock processing professional.

Participants should bring a cooler with ice, wear closed-toe shoes, and clothes that can get soiled and wet. Youth (age 14 or older) may participate with written permission and must be accompanied by an adult.

Register online: https://www.events.unh.edu/RegistrationForm.pm?event_id=14910 and pay on-line or send a check made payable to: UNHCE and mail to: UNH Cooperative Extension, BSC Office, Attn: Chickens #14910, Taylor Hall, 59 College Road, Durham, NH 03824.