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Massachusetts local county extension offices
Your local Massachusetts county extension agent from the Cooperative Extension office can help answer your garden and farming questions and they're free! Just click on the area below closest to you! The Cooperative Extension System is a nationwide, non-credit educational network. These offices are staffed by one or more experts who provide useful, practical, and research-based information to agricultural producers, small business owners, youth, consumers, and others in rural areas and communities of all sizes.
Resources
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- Home Gardening
- Fruit
- Vegetable
- Beginning Farmers
- Crops, Dairy, Livestock & Equine
- Cranberries
- Crop Insurance/Risk Management
- Greenhouse Crops & Floriculture
- Integrated Pest Management
- Landscape, Nursery & Urban Forestry
- Pesticide Education Training
- Turf
- Farm Business Management
- Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)
- Management Guides
- Pest Alerts/Messages
- Newsletters
- Quick Guide to Extension Agriculture and Commercial Horticulture Resources
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Auburn
UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program & Mass 4-H Office
7 Midstate Drive
Auburn, MA 01501
P: (508) 831-1223 ext 105
F: (508) 831-0120 -
Barnstable
Cape Cod Cooperative Extension
Deeds and Probate Building
P.O. Box 367
Barnstable, MA 02630-0367
P: (508) 375-6693
F: (508) 362-4518 East Wareham
UMass Cranberry Station
One State Bog Road
E. Wareham, MA 02538-0569
P: (508) 295-2212
F: (508) 295-6387-
Hadley
Mass 4-H Western Regional Office
100 Venture Way, Suite 334
Hadley, MA 01035-9462
P: (800) 374-4446 -
Lawrence
UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program Office
Family Service Building
430 North Canal Street, #2
Lawrence, MA 01840
P: (978) 689-4744
F: (978) 688-3456 -
Malden
UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program Eastern Region Office
14 Summer St 3rd floor
Malden, MA 02148
P: (617) 628-5607
F: (617) 628-5609 -
Newton
UMass Extension 4-H and Agriculture Program office
Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst
Hallden Hall
777 Dedham Street
Newton, MA 02459
P: (617) 243-1931 Plymouth
UMass Extension Plymouth County
44 Obery Street
Plymouth, MA 02360
P: (781) 293-3541
P: (781) 447-5946
F: (781) 293-3916Raynham
UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program Office
473 South Street West, Suite 22
Raynham, MA 02767
P: (508) 967-6433Springfield
UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program Office
Northgate Plaza
1985 Main Street, Ste 308
Springfield, MA 01103-1095
P: (413) 737-0236
F: (413) 737-1676
Soil and Plant Tissue Testing Laboratory
- 203 Paige Laboratory
161 Holdsworth Way
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
P: (413) 545-2311
https://ag.umass.edu/soiltest
Water Resource Research Center
- 209 Ag Engineering Bldg
250 Natural Resources Rd
Amherst, MA 01003-9295
P: (413) 545-5531
https://wrrc.umass.edu
Regions
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Canning scoop (this one is PERFECT)
Ball Blue book (most recent version)
Jars: 8oz canning jars for jams
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Consumer fraud and scams information
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