Cullman County - Alabama Extension

06/09/2026

How are your tomatoes looking? We're having the Cullman County Tomato Taste-off next month and hope yours are ready for the contest! 🍅🍅

📆 Saturday, July 18
⏰ 10 AM
📍 Festhalle Farmers Market
No registration, just bring your tomatoes!
For more info: https://www.aces.edu/event/tomato-taste-off-cullman-county/

06/08/2026

This event has been RESCHEDULED!! See updates below.

Want to learn how to make and preserve salsa?? We're having a class to teach just that! Learn how to grow tomatoes and peppers and how to turn them into salsa! The class is coming up next week so register soon!

📆 Friday, August 14, 2026
⏰ 1-4 PM
📍 North Alabama Agriplex
💲 $15
✏️ Register at www.aces.edu/go/6396

Don't have a garden? You can still buy the salsa ingredients fresh from the Festhalle Farmers Market and Berlin Farmers Market - Alabama - so learn from us and buy from them!

06/04/2026

Registration is now open for the fall 2026 Extension Master Gardener class! A class will be offered in Cullman County. Space is limited, so register soon.

📅 Thursdays, August 13 - November 5
⏰ 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
📍 Cullman County Extension Office (plus field trips)
💲 $150 (June 1-15); $175 (June 16-30)
✏️ Register at www.aces.edu/go/mgapply

Help spread the word Cullman County Master Gardeners!

06/04/2026

Phone line is working again! Give us a call if you need something!

05/29/2026

We're going to have a salsa soirée on June 16! 🍅🫑🌶️
Join us to learn how to go from garden to pantry and turn tomatoes and peppers into salsa! We'll cover how to grow and preserve plus nutrition benefits of this healthy snack. Participants will take home a sample jar of salsa!

🍅🫑🌶️Garden 2 Pantry: Salsa Soirée🌶️🫑🍅
📆 Tuesday, June 16
⏰ 2-5 PM
📍 North Alabama Agriplex
💲 $15
✏ Register at www.aces.edu/go/6396

Festhalle Farmers Market and Berlin Farmers Market - Alabama - help us share this workshop so people that buy local can learn what to do with it!

05/25/2026

The Cullman County Extension Office will be closed Monday, May 25 in observance of Memorial Day. We will reopen on Tuesday at 8 AM. We appreciate the military service members who have served our country!

05/22/2026

Learn how to improve your land for wildlife enhancement! Quail Forever is hosting an event in Hartselle next month. Check out the details below!

Join us for Quail Forever's second annual North Alabama landowner event- Forests, Fields, and Feathers!  This event is for landowners that wish to improve wildlife habitat quality on their properties. Topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to, timber stand improvement, implementing pr...

05/20/2026

We had a fantastic day for the Sheep and Goat workshop!! Excellent presenters with hands on topics and practical information. Thank you to Cullman County Farmers Federation and AMRV RC&D to sponsoring the event! Co hosted with Winston County - Alabama Extension and Morgan County-Alabama Extension.

05/15/2026

Head over to the Berlin Market this Saturday for their first market day!

05/15/2026

We’ve had a busy week at the Extension office!
🎉We welcomed a new intern for the summer, Madi Perdue!
‼️Hosted our advisory board for an emergency preparedness training, that got a little competitive.
🍀Judged contests at 4-H regional Congress.
💧Taught 6th graders about Alabama Water Watch at FAWN.
🥬Hosted a workshop on growing global vegetables taught by our commercial hort agent Holt.
👍Catching up today!