Livestock Showmanship Clinic

Livestock Showmanship Clinic

9:00 am

August 4^th, 2012

at WNC Agriculture Center – Livestock Sales Arena

Open To ALL Youth!

If you have an interest in learning tips on showing Livestock of ANY TYPE call today to reserve your spot!

Lunch

will be provided to all the Participants

Please RSVP by July 20^th at 828-687-1414 ext 210

4-H Super Summer

Join us for great fun this summer.  Our 4-H Super Summer workshops help youth explore a variety of topics, get ideas for new things to explore, create, get outdoors, have fun and meet other people. 

We will build bird houses, explore plants, from edible to poisonous, make perfume, blast off rockets and more!


See HERE for welcome/information letter, a flyer listing the workshops, and registration forms

Summer Opportunity

Horticultural Science Summer Institute

July 8-13^th, 2012

Through North Carolina State University and North Carolina Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Youth Program with the Department of Horticultural Science.

High school-aged youth (rising sophomores, juniors and seniors) are invited to apply to a new weeklong, residential horticultural experience on the campus of NC State University. Youth will have hands-on opportunities to explore a broad range of horticultural possibilities from breeding better fruits and vegetables, growing a diverse selection of woody ornamentals, lengthening the life of cut flowers, learning sustainable production practices and delving into tools that enhance our understanding of plant production processes. Participants will visit a variety of horticultural businesses.  Youth will also be introduced to career possibilities, college-making decisions and leadership development.

The cost of the institute will be $500 with a $150 deposit due upon application acceptance. Scholarships may be available.

Click here to submit an application! Applications due by May 21, 2012.

http://go.ncsu.edu/hssi

Teen Citizenship

Citizenship North Carolina Focus

June 11-13, 2012, Raleigh, NC

Who:           100-170 North Carolina 4-H youth, ages 14-19, and appropriate adult partners, selected by application. Recruiting at least 2 per county – new or returning youth.

What:           Dynamic learning focused on civic engagement and understanding government

When:  Monday June 11 – Wednesday June 13, 2012

Where:          Sheraton Downtown; Legislative Offices; Raleigh, NC

Why:           To inspire engaged citizenship and continued volunteerism among NC youth

Goals:

Love chickens?

Youth Poultry Camp

Poultry Science Summer Institute (PSSI)

Current 10^th and 11^th graders

Held the first full week of August at NC State

Application deadline:  May 2

Cost:  $50.00

Click HERE for more information

Teen Opportunities 2012

 

Looking for ways to expand your world?  Meet new friends, explore new places, attend fun workshops and learn new things you can do.  Fun included.

Mark your calendar now for these upcoming, annual events:

Teen Retreat

Meet other 4-H’ers from across the district, attend workshops and have fun!

March 30-31;  Swannanoa 4-H Camp

Citizenship NC Focus

Interested in citizenship and how our state legislature works? Apply for the

8th Annual 4-H Citizenship North Carolina Focus  June 11-13, in Raleigh  

Ages 14-19 and adult escorts. Two per county are eligible to attend.

4-H Camp

Summer 2012

Click HERE for a listing of 4-H camps for 13 year olds and older

4-H Congress

July 16-19

13 year olds and older 4-H participants

Part-time participation is available as well

Join in the annual state event with over 800 youth, volunteers and agents from across the state. Meet 4-H’ers from every county in the state, attend workshops, fun activities, see NC State, experience dorm life, and more.  Learn more things you can do in 4-H
see video HERE

Youth Voice Summit

August 17-18

Raleigh, NC

Brainstorm solutions to the top issues youth face in North Carolina and their communities

State 4-H Council

November 3-4

Raleigh, NC

Join other 4-H’ers across the region for inspiration, fun, and more!

Fruit Fun

Growing your own fruits and berries is lots of fun!  Order your plants and benefit Watauga County 4-H

The fruit plant sale order form is available at the Extension office at 971 West King Street, 264-3061 or can be downloaded HERE

Orders are due by Friday, March 30.   The plants will arrive Friday, April 20, 12:00-6:00 and Saturday, April 21, 9:30-12:30

Ways to have fun with fruits and berries:

Grow strawberries in a creative container. The Seascape variety does well in containers

We offer these strawberry varieties:  Seascape and Chandler

Make an edible landscape with blueberry bushes.  Have fun making blueberry pies, pancakes, muffins and more!

We offer Blue Crop, Blue Ray, Jersey, Blue Chip, Duke varieties

Make something crazy in the kitchen.  Invent a recipe, experiment- add raspberries to your salad.  Make a raspberry vinegar.

We offer Caroline and Josephine varieties of raspberries.

Blackberries make great dyes.  Experiment with plant dyes from your garden. 

We offer Chester and Ouachita varieties of blackberries. 

Want to cool down in the summer?  Pop a frozen grape in your mouth.  Or for a wild experiment, make “grape lightning”- pop a grape half in your microwave (adult supervision here please)

We offer Concord and Catawba varieties this year.

Apples connect us with our heritage.   Carve dried apple faces with your extra apples. 

We offer the following heritage varieties:  Virginia Beauty and Yellow Transparent;  Gala is also offered. 

Play with your food.  Food art is lots of fun.  Pears make a great canvas for creating all sort of art.

We have Bartlett and D’Anjou varieties

Explore fruit drying.  Make your own solar food dehydrator.

What is a dried plum called?

Plum varieties:  Damon, Mount Royal

Since we are toting fruits and vegetables, we had to add some vegetables to our plant sale!  Is rhubarb a vegetable?

Explore the medicinal benefits of plants grown in your yard.  Rhubarb has historically been used as a medicinal plant.  Who is credited with bringing Rhubarb to America?

Do any vegetables grow each year without having to be sown?  Rhubarb and asparagus are two perennial vegetables. 

Explore the world with fruits and vegetables- geography, history, cultures, art, science.  Do you know where asparagus was first raised?  Why is asparagus green?  Asparagus would make a fun paintbrush. 

We offer the Hybrid F2 variety.  It does not have a pretty name.  How about renaming it….  The Green Clover Asparagus variety, in honor of 4-H?!

Asparagus does not bear its produce for us right away, so it teaches us patience.   So many fun and tasty things to learn and do in the garden!