2010 Garden Calendar - Available Now

WVU Extension’s ever popular Garden Calendar provides expert growing advice, a practical guide to planning and planting, and insider tips to help make your 2010 garden a mouth watering success.

Office Information

WVU Extension Service
Boone County Office
455 Foster Rd.
Foster, WV 25081

Phone: 304-369-5869 or 304-369-4422
Fax: 304-369-4422
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
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WVU Serving all 55 of West Virginia’s Counties

The WVU Extension Service provides programs in 4-H Youth Development, Families and Health, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Community, Economic and Workforce Development with support from West Virginia University faculty and staff. WVU also maintains a historic special-mission campus at WVU Jackson’s Mill Center for Lifelong Learning and State 4-H Camp, near Weston, West Virginia.

Give eXtension a try!

Extension knowledge can also be found online through eXtension, a Web portal to the nation’s largest educational and information system staffed by Extension experts. Anywhere you find the button below, you can link to eXtension!

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People in Your Community…Knowledge at Your Doorstep

Our Boone County Extension office provides aid to farmers, gardeners, and homeowners, but also local educational programs for area families, businesses, and communities. On our web site you will find Extension Service related information on all of these subjects. When in doubt, you can always call our office or e-mail us.

WVU’s Boone County Extension Office is part of the national land-grant system. Each office has the same mission as its foundation: to help people put knowledge to work. On our web site, we also link you to Boone County and WV map eXtension, a link to a national clearinghouse on Extension Service information, gathered by over 3000 Extension Agents across the United States.

Each WVU Extension Office can provide the public with information on many topics from many resources. The Boone County Extension Office faculty and staff provide assistance and educational programs in the following areas: Agriculture & Natural Resources, 4-H & Youth Development, Family Nutrition Program, Community Educational Outreach Service (CEOS). We are also your link to other WVU Extension offices and to West Virginia University’s related colleges and offices. To meet and support the needs of local people and communities, county faculty and staff involve local residents in developing and leading specific programs and activities.

Part of the National Cooperative Extension System

With more than 3,000 county offices in the USA, the National Cooperative Extension System is the local front door for many citizens to their state land-grant institutions.

All universities engage in research and teaching, but the nation’s more than 100 land-grant colleges and universities including WVU, have another critical mission: Extension. Extension means reaching out, and along with teaching and research land-grant institutions extend their resources, solving public needs with college or university resources through local programs.