The N.C. Cooperative Extension – Watauga County Center will be offering continuing education credits for pesticide applicators and landscape contractors for the 2021-2022 cycle.
Thursday June 16, 2022
In Person
1st hour at the Watauga County Agricultural Conference Center, located at 252 Poplar Grove Road in Boone
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Hours 2 and 3 will be 1 mile away at Arborcrest Gardens in Boone
Click for directions to Arborcrest Gardens
1:00 pm - 2:00pm: Turf Topic- 1 hr Pesticide Applicator continuing education credit L,N,D,X
- 1 hr Landscape Contractor continuing education credit
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Break and travel to Arborcrest Gardents about 1 mile away.Click here to learn more about Arborcrest Gardens.2:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Scouting for Insect and Disease Issues in the Landscape
- 1 hr Pesticide Applicator continuing education credit L,N,D,X
- 1 hr Landscape Contractor continuing education credit
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: New and Unusual Plants for Western NC Landscapes
- 1 hr NC Landscape Contractors License Technical Credit
- Important: No pesticide credits are being offered for this hour because only 4 of the contractors credits can also have counted as a pesticide applicators recertification credit. In other words, you have to have 1 of the 7 classes be a class that did not count as a pesticide credit. EXAMPLE: If you attended the shortened 2021 Watauga Professional Landscape Day you should have 2 business credits, 2 technical credits (also counted for pesticide recertification) so you could have 2 more technical credits that also counted for pesticide recertification. So you need one more technical credit that isn't a pesticide credit.
This event is FREE, but you need to register if you are attending the 2 hours at Arborcrest Gardens so that we can know how many will be going and we will need to send you a code to get into the gate.
To Register:
Email paige_patterson@ncsu.edu or call 828-264-3061 (you may leave a message with your name, phone, email and which hours you are registering for).
How else can you earn credits?- Online Landscape Contractors classes including business credits. It looks like most are $35. Click here to search NC Landscape Contractors Board site for online classes
- NCDA Pesticide class offerings. Click here for NCDA Online Calendar
Click here to search for your license
NCDA has a new system. It no longer tells you when your license expires, only when you got your license. So a Turf and Ornamental (L) license is good for 5 years and you must earn 10 credits
For questions, email Paige_patterson@ncsu.edu or call our office at 828-264-3061.
