With COVID-19 cases increasing across the United States and stressing healthcare resources, it is especially important to get your flu vaccine. Protecting yourself and your family from unnecessary and potentially serious illness is always in the best interests of good health. For this reason, seasonal flu shots are recommended every fall. This year the seasonal flu is not the only ...

UT Extension offers resources and suggestions for families making to switch to home-based virtual learning due to COVID-19. “Well, I guess we’ll just figure it out…I’m not prepared for this!” These are the thoughts and emotions of many parents across the country as school reopening plans and fall options continue to be unveiled. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many aspects ...

Sevier County Family & Community Education (FCE) Clubs and 4-H youth are asking you to join in meeting this tremendous need for fabric masks through the statewide TAFCE Masks of Love Project. If you are making masks, and do not know who to give these to – please consider assisting with this project to help Sevier County! These fabric masks ...

Chronic Wasting Disease in Tennessee deer is now a reality, and experts with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will hold public workshops to answer questions about the disease and what deer hunters and others should know. Nearly four-dozen interested hunters and landowners turned out for the first meeting in McNairy County on July ...

Vote for the Pig! Each year children across Tennessee enter the UT Extension’s Annual Piggy Bank Pageant. This contest begins locally and then culminates into the statewide contest.  In Sevier County, the Piggy Bank Pageant is promoted and sponsored by UT Extension, King Family Library, Tennessee State Bank, Keep Sevier Beautiful, Sevier County Bank, and Sevier County 4-H. This year ...

The sugar maple tree yields autumn foliage, maple syrup and Tennessee whiskey. Wood from the tree is chopped into planks, stacked in piles and burned to form charcoal. Freshly distilled, un-aged whiskey is filtered over the charcoal in a mysterious, but necessary step known as the Lincoln County Process (LCP). By law, a product cannot be called Tennessee whiskey without ...

Registration is open for University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture’s Sportsman’s Field Day. What does a Tennessee sportsman (or woman) need to know about chronic wasting disease or pond management? What about wild turkeys or silver carp? These topics and more will be covered at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture’s Sportsman’s Field Day on March 23, 2019. Hosted by ...

One plant sure to brighten the winter landscape is hellebore, as it is commonly known. Botanically it is known as Helleborus. You may also know it as Christmas rose or Lenten rose because of its rose-like flowers that are in bloom during winter and early spring around the Christian observance of Lent. The genus name Helleborus originates from the Greek ...

The Sevier County Area Master Gardener Group will be holding its fourteen annual class starting in January 2019. The class will start on January 17th with the last class ending on March 21st. Classes will be held on ten Thursday nights and one Saturday. Thursday classes are January 17, 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14, 21. ...

Family Community Education Clubs, formerly Home Demonstration Clubs – Extension Homemakers, may have changed names, but their mission to strengthen individuals and families through fellowship, learning, and community service – still remains strong. Join Sevier County FCE Clubs in celebrating National FCE Week October 9 – 15, 2018. Visit a club meeting! Make new friends, have fun, and become involved ...