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Maine local county extension offices
Your local Maine 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.
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Androscoggin & Sagadahoc Counties
24 Main Street
Lisbon Falls, ME 04252-1505
800.287.1458 (in Maine)
or 207.353.5550
E-mail: [email protected] -
Aroostook County
E-mail: [email protected]
34 Armory Road, Suite 101
Fort Kent, ME 04743-7131
800.287.1421 (in Maine)
or 207.834.3905- E-mail: [email protected]
PO Box 727, Houlton Road
Presque Isle, ME 04769-0727
800.287.1462 (in Maine)
or 207.764.3361
E-mail: [email protected] - 18 Military Street
Houlton, ME 04730-0008
800.287.1469 (in Maine)
or 207.532.6548
E-mail: [email protected]
- E-mail: [email protected]
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Cumberland County
UMaine Regional Learning Center
75 Clearwater Drive, Suite 104
Falmouth, ME 04105
800.287.1471 (in Maine)
or 207.781.6099
E-mail: [email protected] -
Franklin County
138 Pleasant Street, Suite #1
Farmington, ME 04938-5828
800.287.1478 (in Maine)
or 207.778.4650
E-mail: [email protected] -
Hancock County
63 Boggy Brook Road
Ellsworth, ME 04605-9540
800.287.1479 (in Maine)
or 207.667.8212
E-mail: [email protected] -
Kennebec County
125 State Street, 3rd Floor
Augusta, ME 04330-5692
800.287.1481 (in Maine)
or 207.622.7546
E-mail: [email protected] -
Knox & Lincoln Counties
377 Manktown Road
Waldoboro, ME 04572
800.244.2104 (in Maine)
or 207.832.0343
E-mail: [email protected] -
Oxford County
9 Olson Road
South Paris, ME 04281-6402
800.287.1482 (in Maine)
or 207.743.6329
E-mail: [email protected] -
Penobscot County
307 Maine Avenue
Bangor, ME 04401-4331
800.287.1485 (in Maine)
or 207.942.7396
E-mail: [email protected] -
Piscataquis County
Court House Complex
165 East Main Street
Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426-1396
800.287.1491 (in Maine)
or 207.564.3301
E-mail: [email protected] -
Somerset County
7 County Drive
Skowhegan, ME 04976-4209
800.287.1495 (in Maine)
or 207.474.9622
E-mail: [email protected] -
Waldo County
992 Waterville Road
Waldo, ME 04915-3117
800.287.1426 (in Maine)
or 207.342.5971
E-mail: [email protected] -
Washington County
28 Center Street
Machias, ME 04654
800.287.1542 (in Maine)
or 207.255.3345
E-mail: [email protected] -
York County
15 Oak Street
Springvale, ME 04083
800.287.1535 (in Maine)
or 207.324.2814
E-mail: [email protected] -
Administrative Offices
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
5741 Libby Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5741
800.287.0274 (in Maine)
or 207.581.3188
FAX: 207.581.1387
E-mail: [email protected]
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