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.
Back for its fourth year, Extension's Nitrogen Smart program now has an advanced afternoon option for returning participants. View dates and locations in late January across Minnesota. Can't make it in person? An online course is now available.
For the last six years, Susan Lick, Extension Master Gardener volunteer, has been preparing the soil at the Grand Rapids YMCA vegetable garden with the help of some unusual workers: Inmates in the Itasca County Sheriff’s Department Sentence to Serve program. They get the garden ready for Lick to share with 50 Y childcare youth who plant and maintain it all summer.
4-H gives youth the opportunity to learn by doing, grow from failure and develop the skills they need to be leaders now and for a lifetime. No one knows this better than you, our alumni, who have experienced 4-H firsthand. We need your help to bring the same experience and skills to youth today. Show your 4-H pride and help bring the same opportunities to today's youth.
Those who practice silvopasture—an agroforestry practice that combines sustainable management of forage, livestock and woodlands—are helping to lower the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases while raising cattle for income, improving their woodlands and improving water resources.
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