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History Strategic Directions Research & Outreach Interest Areas Advisory Groups Partners Locations Faculty & Staff Directory Contact Information Civil Rights Information Employment Opportunities For Faculty & Staff Extension Outreach Extension Outreach Overview UMass Extension In Your Community CAFE Extension Faculty Extension Outreach Projects Extension Initiative Reports Extension Outreach Programs: 4-H Youth Development Clean Energy Extension Cranberry Station Crops, Dairy, Livestock and Equine Food Science Extension Fruit Greenhouse Crops and Floriculture Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Landscape, Nursery and Urban Forestry Nutrition Education Pesticide Education Program Turf Vegetable Research Mass Agricultural Experiment Station Information About Accessing Research Funds Research Projects Significant Issue Reports Summer Scholars Program Resources Resources Overview UMass Extension Bookstore Agriculture & Commercial Horticulture Community & Economic Vitality Disaster Preparedness Food Safety Pollinators Home Lawn & Garden Find other resources within the following Interest Areas: Agriculture Commercial Horticulture Energy Environmental Conservation Food Science Nutrition Water Youth Development & 4-H Services Pesticide Education Plant Diagnostics Laboratory Soil and Plant Nutrient Testing Laboratory Hot Water Seed Treatment Tick-Borne Disease Diagnostics Environmental Analysis Laboratory Farms & Facilities Overview Cold Spring Orchard Cranberry Station Crop and Animal Research and Education Farm in South Deerfield Equine and Livestock Research and Education Farm in Hadley Joseph Troll Turf Research Facility News & Events Center News Upcoming Events Spotlight Stories News from the Media Faculty/Staff Brief Bios Photo Gallery Video Gallery In Our Spotlight: Got Local Fruit and Veggies in Your Freezer? Read more Search the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment Search by keyword all resources on the CAFE website Back to top Extension Outreach Overview Outreach educational programs from the UMass Extension unit of the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment take many forms. However, they are focused on a common goal, which is to educate and inform individuals, communities and businesses on topics of interest and concern, utilizing the academic resources of UMass Amherst and other sources. The forms may range from an indepth series of workshops over many weeks, to an online fact sheet or a single twilight meeting on a Massachusetts farm. Our intention is to fill unmet educational needs of recognized public priority in the linked set of research and outreach interest areas we address. While extension outreach programs are descibed here, see full research and outreach interest area descriptions for all efforts in the area, including research and integrated-research-and-extension. Clean Energy Extension The UMass Clean Energy Extension provides a resource to reduce market barriers and accelerate the adoption of clean energy for Massachusetts cities and towns, businesses, institutions, farms, low income and multiunit housing, and others. The program supports and contributes to applied research activities across UMass departments and campuses that advance technical, economic, and policy solutions that support clean energy advancement in Massachusetts. The UMass Clean Energy Extension provides impartial and locally responsive expertise to assist entities in evaluating and implementing clean energy opportunities, to help businesses introduce clean energy technologies into the marketplace, and to support applied research to address technical and policy challenges facing clean energy. This program is part of the CAFE Research and Outreach Interest Area Energy . Extension Agriculture and Commercial Horticulture programs The agriculture and commercial horticulture programs of UMass Extension extend the research and educational resources of UMass Amherst and the national land grant community to the farms and horticulture-related businesses of Massachusetts. University scientists and educators (whose wide range of expertise includes agronomy, plant materials, integrated pest management, soils and nutrient management) address the needs and concerns of these enterprises through a variety of formal and informal methods, including short courses, workshops, on-farm demonstrations and web-based information. These programs are part of the CAFE Research and Outreach Interest Areas Agriculture and Commercial Horticulture . Programs Crops, Dairy, Livestock & Equine Cranberries Crop Insurance/Risk Management Fruit Greenhouse Crops & Floriculture Integrated Pest Management Landscape, Nursery & Urban Forestry Pesticide Education Training Turf Vegetable Resources Beginning Farmers Home Gardening Best Management Practices (BMPs) Nutrient Management Farm Business Management Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Management Guides Pest Alerts/Messages Newsletters Commonwealth Quality Extension Bookstore Storm Preparation & Response Quick Guide to Extension Agriculture and Commercial Horticulture Resources Extension Nutrition Education Program UMass Extension’s Nutrition Education Program (NEP) brings knowledge and skills for healthier eating through research-based nutrition education to the tables of low-income residents (about 208,000 contacts in 2015) so that they can make the very best choices about how to use their limited food resources. The program has offices in seven locations–Amherst, Barnstable, Boston, Lawrence, Raynham, Springfield, and Worcester–and works in partnership with local agencies, organizations, and schools. NEP includes two programs: Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), which works with low-income families with young children and youth, and SNAP-Ed, which works with those either receiving or eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This program is part of the CAFE Research and Outreach Interest Area Nutrition . Extension 4-H Youth Development Program 4-H in Massachusetts is a youth development program open to all...