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County Advisory Support Mini-Grants Available

The mini-grant application is open until October 17, 2025 We are happy to announce that the NC State Extension State Advisory Council is once again offering Advisory Support Mini-Grants to counties…

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Advisory Members Are Volunteers Too: Eight Ways to Recognize Your Advisory Members for National Volunteer Week

Volunteers have always been the key to success for Cooperative Extension. From its inception more than 100 years ago, citizens have been involved to help set priorities for research projects and to…

What Is an Advisory Council?

Cooperative Extension has always been a volunteer-driven organization. From its earliest days, lay leaders were trusted to share research-based information with the public to help get cutting-edge…

Service to the People - Sampson County

This article was contributed by Deborah Johnson from a 2018 event at the N.C. Cooperative Extension of Sampson County office. Deborah rolled off the State Advisory Council, November 2019. County…

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Cooperative Extension Serves to Meet Community Needs

The N.C. Cooperative Extension State Advisory Council recently met in Wilmington, NC. The following article appeared in the StarNews Online. The plaque hanging over my desk dated Dec. 7, 1950, was…

Mary McKernan - New State Advisory Council Member

If you have an important job to do and a real deadline within which to do it, find a busy person to whom the task can be assigned. That observation may easily be consigned to the “old wives’ tales,”…

SAC Tours Flavor 1st Farms

At last year’s summer Extension State Advisory Committee meeting, the group had a chance to tour one of the most modern vegetable packing facilities in NC – FLAVOR 1st Farms. Located in Mills River…

N.C. Cooperative Extension of Cumberland County - "Tribute to the American Farmer"

Kay Bullard, State Advisory Council Volunteer - South Central District, visited the 2018 Cumberland County Fair and stopped by the N.C. Cooperative Extension of Cumberland County exhibit - a "Tribute…

State Advisory Council Visits Bullington Gardens

During the summer meeting in 2018, the State Extension Advisory Committee met at Highland Lakes in Henderson County. As part of the meeting, the group was taken on a tour of some of the local…

Margaret "Meg" Howdy - New State Advisory Council Member

Margaret "Meg" Howdy is the new State Advisory Council member for the Northeast District. She will be representing Beaufort, Bertie, Martin & Washington Counties.Meg is a Washington native. She…