The Clark County Cooperative Extension Service’s annual Winter School gets underway tonight with a talk about plants.

Horticulture Night is the first of the three sessions, and will include discussion of the Clark County Farm to School program, which provides locally-grown vegetables for student lunches.

Other topics include the use of high tunnels (greenhouses) to extend the growing season for vegetables, and what to do with dead white ash trees destroyed by emerald ash borers.

The class will begin at 6 p.m. at the Extension Office at 1400 Fortune Drive.

Other classes scheduled are Beef Night on Jan. 30 and Industrial Hemp Night on Feb. 4.

“It’ll all be in a classroom setting,” Extension Agent Clay Stamm said. “We do more field stuff in the summer.”

There’s a $10 charge, but it covers all three nights, and there’s a meal provided each night. The local FFA chapter is providing the food for the first session, the Clark County Beef Cattle Association will be cooking for Beef Night and Clark County Farm Bureau will provide the meal the Hemp Night.

Guests may call the Extension Office at 744-4682 to RSVP, and registration can be done at the door.

Anyone interested may also email clay.stamm@uky.edu or david.davis@uky.edu.