New Jersey local county extension offices

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New Jersey local county extension offices

Your local New Jersey 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.

In NJ, the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension county offices are your first stop for all kinds of information and assistance regarding 4-H, agriculture, family and community health sciences, marine science, and natural resources and the environment.

The Rutgers Cooperative Extension county offices are found in all 21 New Jersey counties, and are a partnership between Rutgers Cooperative Extension, County Boards of Chosen Freeholders, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  Please visit or contact your county office with any questions you may have. If you're looking for a specific person in any given county, please visit their personnel directory.