Becoming a Master Gardener
2,400 Extension Master Gardeners volunteer across Minnesota, but like a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly, it’s a process to become one. Master Gardeners bring a lot of experience with them and are hungry for more.
Extension at the University of Minnesota
Today's most pressing issues cross state and world boundaries, requiring strong partnerships, focused investments and diverse perspectives from multiple disciplines.
Extension researchers and educators engage individuals and organizations in asking the challenging questions to discover science-based answers that make a difference.
What can Extension help you find?
Food safety on the farm is good business
Our on-farm Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Education Program works with Minnesota’s produce farmers to help you develop and implement on-farm food safety plans and prepare for GAPs audits.
Extension announces creation of rural stress task force
Extension is helping communities deal with a number of difficult issues centered around the weak ag economy. Extension Dean Bev Durgan has appointed Emily Wilmes to lead a task force coordinating Extension’s response to challenges facing rural Minnesota.
Yard and Garden News
New plant varieties, a special bumble bee, a "new normal" in frost dates and a celebration of WCCO's Smart Gardens radio show, featuring Extension garden experts every Saturday morning for the past eight years.