Virginia Wilson of the Agricultural Extension Service conducts a cooking school for the wives of married students at the West Campus Branch of the YMCA in Vetville. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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In the 1920s, members of the N.C. 4-H's Clarendon Women's Club of Columbus County hold their dress molds. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
The N.C. 4-H Club will celebrate its 100th anniversary this week as members from across the state will be in Raleigh to participate in competitions and events as part of its annual 4-H Congress. Among the events will be a Centennial Homecoming Celebration on Tuesday night, when there will be a reunion dinner and a Rockin’ Clover Bash and when the first class of the 4-H Hall of Fame will be announced. NC State helped develop the N.C. 4-H Club — which also has been called the Corn Club and the Farmers’ Boy Club — in 1909.
NCSU Libraries’ Special Collections has an online exhibit, Green’n’ Growing, that includes a detailed history of the N.C. 4-H Club and hundreds of great photos of the club’s work over its 100-year history. The N&O also has some colorful photos of the recent N.C. State 4-H Horse Show, one of the nation’s largest 4-H horse programs.
If you were a Cub Scout, you probably participated in the Pinewood Derby. Well, last Thursday N.C. State’s Plants for Human Health Institute and the N.C. Cooperative Extension’s Program for Value-Added and Alternative Agriculture held the Zucchini 500 at the North Carolina Research Campus Farmers Market in Kannapolis. It’s kind of like the Pinewood Derby, but instead of creating a car from a block of wood, contestants use a zucchini.
The Concord/Kannapolis Independent Tribune has a story and video. The Salisbury Post has a story and more pictures. YouTube video of the final heat is after the jump. (more…)
As NC State professor Karen Debord says in this WRAL story from Monday, the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service does a lot more than you might think.
“It’s not just getting a soil sample or identifying a bug or a plant,” Debord said. “But for families, we can help them understand how to manage their energy efficiently, help parents understand skills they need to build their confidence as parents and train child-care providers.”
Her department — family and consumer sciences — has developed Take Control, a Web site that provides fact sheets about coping with the economic downturn. The site has fact sheets on everything from health care to dealing with creditors to talking with children about budgeting to finding free entertainment.
If you spend any time at farmers markets, this video series produced by NC State’s Program for Value-Added and Alternative Agriculture at the N.C. Research Campus in Kannapolis might help you get the most out of what you buy. It features The Produce Lady (Brenda Sutton), who’s director of the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service in Rockingham County. She keeps a blog and has her own YouTube channel, where you can find videos on strawberries, eggplant, green beans and okra. She also makes occasional appearances on the Almanac Gardener on UNC-TV.
Employees of the Extension Service's forestry management office build an exhibit for the 1963 State Fair, the theme of which was "the miracle of the forest." (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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