- Author: Chris M. Webb
Published on: September 17, 2010
The national Cooperative Extension System has an incredibly informative and interesting website. From their site:
“eXtension is an interactive learning environment delivering the best, most researched knowledge from the smartest land-grant university minds across America. eXtension connects knowledge consumers with knowledge providers – experts who know their subject matter inside out.”
Current resource areas are broken down in the following way:
- Alerts
- Community -- including planning, zoning, geospatial technology
- Disaster Issues -- including agrisecurity, floods, wildfire
- Energy -- including farm, home and wood energy
- Family -- including food safety, parenting, personal finance
- Farm -- including bee healthy, dairy, organic agriculture
- Pest management -- including pest management in and around structures, wildlife damage management
- Youth – science, engineering and technology for youth
In addition to a wide assortment of articles, an Ask the Experts section is also available for people to ask questions. Some of the resources are also available in Spanish.
Tags: commercial agriculture (307), food safety (53), food security (71), Initiative B Abundant Food (236), Initiative D Sustaining Ecosystems (162), Initiative F Families and Communities (356), Initiative G Safe Food (137), Initiative H Managing Pests (215), Initiative I Energy for the Future (131), money management (8), natural resources (116), organic production (34), pests (109), pollinators (19), science resources for youth (33), Spanish language resource (64), youth development (76)
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