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Lightning stirkes light up a cloudy, blue night sky.

Extension for Real Life

How-To: Spring Weather Preparedness

America is the most severe weather-prone country on Earth, but you can take a few advanced steps to be prepared.

Two young people wearing chef's hats, with one holding a knife and one holding a whisk, standing back to back and smiling.

Extension Matters Volume 12 Number 1

Cooking Up Gold

Two Pontotoc County 4-H’ers win first place in a celebrated regional cook-off.

A person stands in a kitchen in front of the stove.

Extension for Real Life

What’s for Dinner? Taco Soup

A budget-friendly, family-favorite meal for any time of year

Watermelons have been split open to display red, yellow or white flesh.

Register by March 31 for watermelon event

Closeup of the underside of tree bark showing the galleries, or winding tunnels, that pine bark beetles dig.

Defend trees from beetles, disease in storm aftermath

Four yellow flowers on tall stems face the ground.

Southern Gardening

Native pitcher plants and sundews are carnivores

Small white balls attached to the side of a pine tree.

Bark beetles threaten ice-damaged timber

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Meeting
Pearl River County Cattlemen's Association Meeting
March 26, 2026 | 6:30 –8:30am
Workshop
Mississippi Farmers Market Manager Workshop
March 26, 2026 | 8:30am –3pm
Training
Pesticide Applicator Certification - Monroe County
March 26, 2026 | 9am –4pm
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Pearl River County Cattlemen's Association Meeting
March 26, 2026 | 6:30 –8:30pm

Latest News

Extension for Real Life
What are Bed Bugs?
Extension for Real Life
Coreopsis: Mississippi's State Wildflower
Feature Story
Organic vegetable production workshop set for April 17
Extension for Real Life
What’s for Dinner? Taco Soup
Southern Gardening
Native pitcher plants and sundews are carnivores
Feature Story
Defend trees from beetles, disease in storm aftermath

Extension Matters
Volume 12 Number 1

What our clients are saying about us

Extension is helping our community grow and offer more projects for our children. We need more of this—the children are our future.

Rosemary Williams, Daycare Owner

Extension by the Numbers

82

Mississippi Counties Served
(all of them!)

90,000

Youth Reached Through 4-H

2,025,287

Direct Educational Contacts

123,852

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