4AH-16PA: Exhibiting and Judging Vegetables

Ashley Osborne | January 13, 2022 (New)

What makes certain vegetables "better" or of higher quality than others? Do you know which vegetables to choose for exhibition? Do you know how to prepare vegetables for exhibition? This factsheet will help you as you prepare to exhibit or judge vegetables. Vegetables will be evaluated on different criteria including condition, quality, uniformity, trueness-to-type, and size. Whether you are going to exhibit or judge vegetables, you will need to learn the characteristics of all of these criteria.

4FD-01LO: Creating Fashion/Expressing Self: Leaders Guide

Isaac Hilpp | November 22, 2021 (New)

The goal of the Creating Fashion/Expressing Self program is to provide young people in high school the opportunity to explore fashion and textile programs in a non-sewing context. Fashion should be a celebration of the uniqueness of each young person. Creating Fashion/Expressing Self is a celebration of the things that make us unique and a tool that helps us express those qualities.

4FD-04PO: Creating Fashion/Expressing Self: Curating You

Isaac Hilpp | November 22, 2021 (New)

Shopping for clothing is motivated by a lot of things--much of which can be summed up in two words: need or want. Your need to purchase a new item or replace a current one may be the factor that causes you to shop. On the other hand, your favorite pastime may be shopping. Regardless of what gets you to the marketplace, you need to know the three W's of wise shopping: when to shop, where to shop, and what to shop for.

4FD-02PO: Creating Fashion/Expressing Self: Exploring Self

Isaac Hilpp | November 22, 2021 (New)

Creating Fashion/Expressing Self will help you learn to customize your wardrobe--to choose clothing you like and enjoy wearing. There are several ways of doing this. By the time you work through the project, you will know what they are and you will be able to select clothing you really enjoy wearing.

4FD-05PO: Creating Fashion/Expressing Self: Empowering Fashion

Isaac Hilpp | November 22, 2021 (New)

Fashion should help empower you to present your most confident and truest self to the world. Fashion is a tool to build a wardrobe that someone could examine and know it is yours. Using the knowledge you have of wardrobe planning, shopping, and clothing coordination, we can now explore how those skills can interact with the world to express you, your community, and your support for others.

4FD-03PO: Creating Fashion/Expressing Self: Closet Couture

Isaac Hilpp | November 22, 2021 (New)

Creating a wardrobe that reflects who you are as a person can be very intimidating. It is important to remember however that you don’t need to buy all new things to make this happen. Often times you can coordinate and match items in your own closet to get the job done.

4AH-10PO: Windowsill Garden Project

Bill Fountain, Dick LeMaster, Ashley Osborne | November 18, 2021 (New)

This guide is for volunteer leaders or county Extension personnel, and includes four lessons designed for youth in 3rd‐5th grades. Each lesson focuses on an aspect of seeds, plants, and/or gardening. Three additional experiments are included in the Digging Deeper section that youth can do independently or in a group or classroom setting. At the end of the guide, additional resources and an appendix are available. The National 4‐H Gardening Series, which includes 4 levels for grades 3rd‐12th and a Helper's Guide, is recommended if additional background information is needed. The National 4‐H Gardening Series includes projects and activities for youth that have an interest in continuing to learn more about plant science and gardening after completing their windowsill garden.

4LE-09LO: Chinese Dumplings

Rachel Guidugli | November 4, 2021 (New)

Dumplings are a type of food that is prepared and enjoyed all over the world. Dumplings can be a stuffing wrapped in a thin dough or pieces of dough cooked in boiling water. Dumplings can be boiled, fried, steamed and prepared in many different ways. Just like bread, dumplings probably arose independently in several cuisines. And in all likelihood, they were invented as a way to stretch a small amount of meat to feed more people.

4LE-08OO: Why Extension Abroad Matters at Home

Rachel Guidugli | November 4, 2021 (New)

In order for U.S. universities and colleges to remain competitive and innovative forces for the greater good in a rapidly changing world, Cooperative Extension Systems (CES) must continue to globalize to serve new and more diverse audiences, provide enriching opportunities that produce global citizens, and strengthen long-term institutional capacity.

4LE-10LO: Argentina: Empanadas

Nicole Breazeale, Rachel Guidugli | November 4, 2021 (New)

Empanadas are hand-held pies stuffed with a variety of delicious fillings that are extremely common in Latin America. Rich and poor alike serve them for impromptu dinners, stick them in lunch boxes, and enjoy them at public gatherings. Home cooks teach their children to make empanadas using special family recipes, but they also buy them from a multitude of shops, where you can often find a dizzying array of filling options (both sweet and savory). Sometimes they are fried and sometimes they are baked.