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Lights, camera, garden! Grow This seeks documentary participants

The Grow This Throwdown documentary on top of a hand holding a camera. Below text reads "The Documentary."

The Grow This: West Virginia Garden Challenge is looking for gardeners to participate in a short documentary about the free seed program.

WVU to showcase outreach, service to the state

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Leggett begins role as WVU Extension agriculture and natural resources agent for Randolph and Upshur counties

For Brittany Leggett, the newest West Virginia University Extension agriculture and natural resources agent for Randolph and Upshur counties, the mission of Extension and her passion for education have always been integral to her personal and professional goals.

WVU awarded grant to explore and develop fiber-based products in West Virginia

Wool is a highly functional fiber, but despite this, most of the wool and textile industry has left the country due to lack of infrastructure, limiting farmers’ profits from wool production. With the help of a USDA grant, West Virginia University researchers are exploring new ways to support sheep farmers and fiber producers in the region.

Snyder joins WVU Extension team in Berkeley County as agriculture and natural resources agent

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Ryan Snyder is the newest addition to the West Virginia University Extension team in Berkeley County, where he recently began as the agriculture and natural resources agent-in-training and visiting instructor. 

Malencia hired as Monongalia County’s WVU Extension agriculture and natural resources agent

Josh Malencia recently began his position as the West Virginia University Extension agriculture and natural resources agent in Monongalia County.

WVU Extension’s Small Farm Conference offers education and community to agricultural producers

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For more than 20 years, the West Virginia University Extension Small Farm Center has supported our state’s agricultural producers through its annual West Virginia Small Farm Conference. This year, the conference will be hosted on Feb. 26 – March 1, at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center in Charleston, West Virginia.

WVSAN awarded grant to improve after school programming across the state

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The West Virginia Statewide Afterschool Network, a program facilitated by West Virginia University Extension, was recently awarded a $75,000 grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation to launch new quality initiatives to support out-of-school program providers, including an online professional development platform to encourage continuous quality improvement and interaction with statewide afterschool standards.

WVU Extension’s free seed sign-ups end Jan. 31 as the Grow This Throwdown takes off

A graphic for the 2025 Grow This Throwdown reading "the Countdown has begun" with three seed packets. The packets are for chives, lettuce and pickling cucumbers. It also says "Survey closing Jan. 31."

The countdown to the Throwdown has begun. Friday, January 31 is the deadline to sign up for free seeds from the Grow This: West Virginia Garden Challenge . After that, the competition side of the popular program takes off.

WVU’s Impact Challenge generates student business pitches to address regional economic struggles

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West Virginia University’s Impact Challenge pairs middle and high school students from across West Virginia with current WVU students to research and develop innovative, profitable fashion- or health-focused business models aimed at tackling one of Appalachia’s challenges.

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