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
URI corpse flower countdown June 9, 2026 - Greenhouse Manager Ben Robbins keeping an eye on unique specimen
Course applications now open for fall Food Recovery for Rhode Island program at URI June 4, 2026 - Six-week Cooperative Extension program aims to feed the local community and fight food waste
URI professor Tom Mather talks ticks with Daily Show host Michael Kosta June 3, 2026
Fourth of July Tomato is URI Cooperative Extension’s Plant of the Year, producing delicious vine-ripened tomatoes as early as Independence Day June 3, 2026 - URI Cooperative Extension recommends fast-growing variety for a slice of summer
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Kathleen M. Mallon Outreach Center
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Kingston, RI 02881
p: 401-874-2900
coopext@uri.edu
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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.