Cooperative Extension provides non-formal education and learning opportunities to people throughout the United States—serving farmers and rural communities as well as those in urban areas. In Rhode Island, we strive to reach every corner of the state, delivering science-based information through our educational programs and services to help people make informed decisions in their daily lives.
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News and Stories
“Doing to Learn”: Fellowship Connects Students with Food System Work July 9, 2025 - RI Agriculture and Food System Fellows Program recruiting students and mentors
Safe well water? Test to be sure June 25, 2025 - URI and R.I. Department of Health offer informational program for private well owners
URI Cooperative Extension program aims to rescue and recycle food by changing the way Rhode Islanders interact with it June 11, 2025 - KINGSTON, R.I. – June 11, 2025 – Applications are open for Food Recovery for Rhode Island at the University of Rhode Island (FRRI), a community education program for Rhode Islanders offered through URI Cooperative Extension. The six-week course includes online coursework and field experiences that can be completed at participants’ convenience.
Rhode Island in bloom: URI Master Gardeners open their gardens to visitors for statewide garden tour this July 19-20 June 5, 2025 - Cooperative Extension’s two-day garden tour offers green inspiration and education
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Learn moreThe University of Rhode Island occupies the traditional stomping ground of the Narragansett Nation and the Niantic People. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship between the Indigenous people and this land by teaching and learning more about their history and present-day communities, and by becoming stewards of the land we, too, inhabit.