Population Based Visit - The North Carolina Cooperative Extension

Danbury, NC

The North Carolina Cooperative Extension


What is the Cooperative Extension?1
Cooperative Extension is a part of a nationwide educational system that involves the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the state land-grant university system and county government. Extension programs often enhance the work of other government and nonprofit agencies, which join together to improve the quality of life for county residents.

North Carolina Cooperative Extension provides a broad range of educational programs that are of benefit to farmers, rural and urban residents, community leaders, homemakers, parents, and youth. Extension programs focus on traditional and changing needs in the areas of agriculture, home economics, community and rural development, and 4-H and youth.

In North Carolina, field faculty who are housed in offices in all 100 counties and the Cherokee Reservation delivers extension’s educational programs locally. To contact your local office of North Carolina Cooperative Extension, select your county from our County Centers page.

I did not realize that the cooperative extension program did so much for the local community. I have always thought of home issues when I thought of the local cooperative extension program. The cooperative extension program is involved in a number of areas. The departments within the cooperative extension are as follows:

Agriculture and Food – providing education on animal agriculture, commercial horticulture, nursery and turf, farm health and safety, field crops, food safety and processing, pest control and specialty crops
Community
Environment
Forest Resources
Health and Nutrition
Home and Family
Lawn and Garden
Youth and 4-H


1The North Carolina Cooperative Extension. The Stokes County Center. (2007). Retrieved on November 17, 2007 from http://stokes.ces.ncsu.edu/index.php?page=faq