Outreach at UTIA

Across units, departments, and programs, our faculty and staff connect our strengths to better serve our mission and clients. The Institute of Agriculture’s strategic plan includes goals to expand real-life learning, rapidly deploy solutions, and deliver programs that improve lives. We are a statewide presence, with UT Extension offices in all ninety-five counties and ten AgResearch and Education Centers throughout East, Middle, and West Tennessee.

See how your local Extension agent can provide solutions for your life.
The first cohort of students enrolled in the Horticultural Therapy Program at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has completed the requirements and participants have received their certificates in Horticultural Therapy. The program, offered through the UT Herbert College of Agriculture’s Department of Plant Sciences and the UT Gardens, is the first undergraduate certificate program offered by UT for students not enrolled in a full degree program.
The 2025 Tennessee Home Fruit and Vegetable Garden calendar is now available! This research-backed guide from UT Extension is designed to help you develop an effective planting, harvesting and management schedule for your home.
As crop producers are making decisions for this year’s planting season, our Extension Specialists and Researchers are providing resources such as Field Crop Budgets to help in that process.
Interested in becoming a beekeeper? Our Master Beekeeping courses are held across the state.
Is your child signed up for summer camp with 4-H yet?
HABIT is composed of community volunteers who work to explore the human-animal bond and to promote this valuable bond between people and animals.
The Victory Garden in Collierville, Tennessee, provides vegetables, flowers, and something more unique–hope for some of its food insecure neighbors. Chris Cooper (left), Extension agent in Shelby County, and Memphis-area Tennessee Extension Master Gardeners maintain the community garden, from which local food pantries receive weekly donations of fresh produce.