Virginia Cooperative Extension – Knowledge for the Commonwealth
As the front door to the land-grant university system, Virginia Cooperative Extension uses objective, research-based educational programs to stimulate positive personal, economic, and societal change. Our educational programs lead to more productive lives, families, communities, and farms and forests while enhancing and preserving the quality of the commonwealth's natural resources.
Virginia Cooperative Extension provides every citizen of the state local access to the wealth of knowledge available through our two land-grant universities, Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.
Recognizing that knowledge is power, Extension uses the resources of the land-grant university system to deliver educational programs through a network of 107 local county and city offices, six 4-H Educational Centers, and 13 Agricultural Research and Extension Centers.
Virginia Cooperative Extension:
- Provides educational programs to individuals, families, organizations, and communities in the three broad areas of: 1) agriculture and natural resources; 2) 4-H youth development; and 3) family and consumer sciences.
- Provides prompt access to unbiased, objective, research-based information and educational programs through an innovative network of human and technological resources.
- Collaborates with public and private partners to better utilize our resources, enhance our effectiveness, and reach a more diverse audience.
- Partners with citizen-led Extension Leadership Councils throughout the state to identify local.
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