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People’s Garden Teaches Gardening to Youth in Kentucky

June 04, 2010 Steve Meredith, Steve Meredith, Kentucky State Finance and Administration Cabinet

A new People’s Garden was planted in west/central Kentucky this past Memorial Day weekend. The garden is located on the greenhouse business property of Meredith Agriculture in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. This new People’s Garden is a project of Meredith Agriculture and Central Hardin High School FFA...

Initiatives

National Ag Day Youth Panel on Future of Ag

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Representatives from various youth farm groups provided their ideas on what agriculture should include in the future during the National Ag Day event Tuesday at USDA. (Rod Bain. Matias Habib of National 4-H. Caroline Groth of National FFA. Lance Williams of Agriculture Future of America. Taylor...

Daily Newsline

Pilot Promotes Organic Dairy in Schools and Youth Programs

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USDA recently rolled out its Organic Dairy Promotion Program to encourage more consumption of products in education facilities and community youth programs. (Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt)

Daily Newsline

Native American Youths Improve Sage-Grouse Habitat

January 10, 2012 Liz Warner, NRCS Nevada

In the middle of Nevada, miles from anywhere, eight Native American young adults spent their summer working to improve sagebrush habitat for the greater sage-grouse. Habitat for this ground-dwelling bird, native to much of the American West, has been dwindling in recent years, due to fencing...

Conservation

Youth Workers Improve Los Padres Wilderness Trails

August 22, 2011 Jennifer Gray, USDA Forest Service, Los Padres National Forest

Recovery Act funding spurs a renaissance in backcountry trail maintenance. This year, visitors to the Los Padres National Forest, near Goleta, Calif., are seeing widespread wilderness trail improvements thanks to Recovery Act funds. Nearly $2.3 million was allocated to the forest for wilderness...

Initiatives Forestry

Jackson-Madison County Schools Demonstrate the Power of Youth Engagement

August 14, 2014 Dr. Janey Thornton, Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

In today’s installment of our Cafeteria Stories series, we highlight the innovative and successful school nutrition strategies that a Tennessee school district is using to positively impact the health of our next generation. I believe very strongly in the power of student engagement, and the Jackson...

Food and Nutrition

Rural Champion, Roland Arriola, Brings Grass Roots Change to Youth in South Texas

July 26, 2011 Talishia Sears, Web Communications Intern

Cross posted from the White House Rural Champions of Change website: After retiring from the University of Texas-Pan American in 2008, Dr. Arriola, like many retirees in America, wanted to continue to be of service to his community. He formed the Texas Valley Communities Foundation, a non-profit...

USDA Results Rural

USDA, 4-H, Equip Future Leaders to Succeed

Pat Swanson, USDA Risk Management Agency Administrator

In March, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke at the Iowa Ag Leaders Dinner about how USDA will ensure American agriculture leads the world, feeds the nation, and competes on a global stage that is fair and puts our farmers first.

Farming

Iowa Takes an Ethnic Studies Approach to 4-H

August 23, 2016 Scott Elliott, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

In this guest blog, Iowa State 4-H Youth Development program leader John-Paul Chaisson-Cardenas takes a look at several ways 4-H is embracing the cultural diversity of its participating youth to make sure youth of color feel welcome as the U.S. student population grows more diverse. By John-Paul...

Initiatives

It's 'Rockets to the Rescue' During National 4-H Week

October 10, 2014 Scott Elliott, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Millions of youth around the country became “aerospace engineers” for a day on Wednesday, as 4-H National Youth Science Day’s “Rockets to the Rescue” took center stage during National 4-H Week, Oct. 5 – 11. National 4-H Week is the time when America’s 4-H clubs showcase their 6 million members and...

Research and Science