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This publication covers a variety of foods that can be prepared even if there is no gas or electricity for cooking.
If treated properly, many herb plants will survive in the garden for a number of years. Others are sensitive to frost or severe cold weather and must be brought indoors, protected, or replanted each year. In North Carolina, annual herbs will be killed with the first hard frost in the fall. With a little extra care and attention, many perennial herbs will survive the winter and survive in the garden for many years.
This publication covers the supplies you will need at home in the event of an emergency or disaster.
This publication for nursery managers and homeowners describes how to protect nursery plants and keep them healthy through the winter.
After a power outage, you might not have heat, refrigeration, or water. This publication explains how to safely prepare food when you have no power.
When storms damage woodlands and shade trees, woodland owners and homeowners have many questions about what to do with their damaged trees. This factsheet outlines guidelines for quick decision making and priority setting.
Following a storm timber owners are often interested in salvaging their timber, but the utilization of storm-damaged timber depends on physical damage to trees and the length of time between damage and harvest. This publication provides guidelines for the utilization of storm-damaged timber.
This factsheet covers the basics of constructing a propagation / winter protection structure in a quonset design.
This publication contains important information and safety tips regarding gasoline-powered generators to be used in an emergency or disaster.
This publication is a compilation of ideas from a few specialists based on research, reports in the landscape, experience, and intuition on how to manage storm and disaster damage in landscapes and nurseries.
To grow more consistent crops and improve your cash flow in years with damaging frost events, this chapter will show you how you can: 1) identify an active protection system to protect your vineyard during budbreak and early shoot development, 2) use the basic principles of frost and frost/freeze protection to deal with complex cold protection scenarios, so that you use your active protection system(s) efficiently, and 3) operate the equipment correctly.
This publication for tobacco growers describes steps that can be taken to avoid or minimize tobacco curing losses due to an electrical outage.
Frost injury in strawberries is described and frost prevention strategies provided.
