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Red Eyed Treefrog

Red-Eyed Treefrog
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NC State Extension Gardener Service-Learning

Educational Travel-Study Adventures Around the World

Each Extension Gardener Travel-Study Adventure is a unique immersion experience, engaging all your senses in a learning opportunity that expands your perspective, knowledge, and network. We offer boutique, educational travel around the world focusing on plants, insects, animals, ecology, biodiversity, geography, history, and horticulture production. 

While you can read about plants and ecosystems, nothing compares to the benefit of direct experience. Seeing plants in their native habitat provides a better appreciation for how and why they grow the way they do and an opportunity to compare the ways plants (and animals) adapt to various environmental constraints. These travel-study adventures explore not only the ecology of other habitats but also provide insights into growing plants at home.

Image by Lucy Bradley CC-0

Benefits to NC Extension Master Gardener Volunteers

Our trips include a local guide, a local bus driver, an NC Extension Professional who take care of you every step of the way, and additional expert guides at each destination. Created specifically for gardeners, travelers have an opportunity to build relationships across the state and around the world with others passionate about plants.

The groups are intentionally kept small for an exceptional experience. They include all entry fees, hotel rooms, transportation, and most meals. Apply to your county agent for continuing education credits. 

The trips are consistently rated outstanding on knowledge of the guide, the care taken of travelers, friends made, and all that they saw and learned that they would never have been exposed to if they had not been on the guided tour.

Male Red legged-honeycreepee by Susan Maher

Benefits to the NC Extension Master Gardener Program

An incentive to motivate volunteers and staff to stay engaged while they grow personally and professionally. An opportunity to build cross-cultural relationships that can open doors to new opportunities.

Written By

Lucy Bradley, N.C. Cooperative ExtensionDr. Lucy BradleyExtension Specialist (Consumer & Community Horticulture) & Professor Call Dr. Lucy Email Dr. Lucy Horticultural Science
NC State Extension, NC State University
Page Last Updated: 7 months ago
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