The Petersburg office of Virginia Cooperative Extension is your local connection to Virginia's land-grant universities, Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.
Through educational programs based on research and developed with input from local stakeholders, we help the people of Petersburg improve their lives.
We provide education through programs in Agriculture and Natural Resources, Family and Consumer Sciences, 4-H Youth Development, and Community Viability.
400 Farmer Street
Suite 218
Petersburg, VA 23803-6367
Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Main Office: (804) 733-1880
Fax: (804) 733-1950
2010 Positive and Practical Parenting Workshops
Positive and Practical Parenting Classes are 8 weeks sessions (20 – hours) for parents, grandparents, child care providers and anyone needing help with parenting and communication skills. Information focuses on preschool children, primary, elementary school – aged children and teens.
2010 Positive and Practical Parenting Registration Forms (PDF | 63KB)Co-Parenting Education - Parents Forever Living Apart-Parenting Together
Virginia Cooperative Extension now offers Parents Forever Living Apart - Parenting Together at the Petersburg Office on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 and Tuesday, November 24, 2009.Petersburg 4-H 2010 Application and Reference Forms
Attached are the Petersburg 4-H 2010 Counselor-in-Training and Counselor application and reference forms to be completed and turned in to the Petersburg 4-H no later than March 1, 2010. Petersburg 4-H 2010 Application and Reference Forms (PDF | 393KB)Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline®
The Petersburg Office will conduct a unit project "Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline®" for six limited resource families from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM October 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2009.
The Petersburg Office was one of the pilots for "Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline® Program" unit project conducted October 2008 to April 2009. Pictures show the families hard at work learning how to cook and eat healthier.
