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The popular Kids Market @ The Store program is expanding for summer 2024, offering free fruits and vegetables to over 3,800 families at 61 local retailers in 35 West Virginia counties. 

West Virginia University Extension Safety and Health hosted a graduation ceremony to honor students who completed the Certified Safety Trainer and the Certified Safety Specialist programs. WVU Extension Safety and Health has been a leader in providing professional continuing education courses since 1994 by serving as the lead organization in the National Resource Center, an OSHA Training Institute Education Center, one of 27 in the United States. 

West Virginia University Extension will award over $20,000 in grant funding to winners of the inaugural Grow This Throwdown gardening competition later this year.  

West Virginia University Extension 4-H teams' legacy continues by placing in the national land judging and homesite evaluation competitions. Out of the hundreds of youths from 39 states that competed, three teams of 4-H'ers from Barbour, Jefferson and Clay counties traveled to Oklahoma for the National Land Judging and Homesite Evaluation Contest, and all three teams placed.  

The team behind “The Grow This Throwdown” — West Virginia University Extension’s statewide gardening competition — took home two wins of their own last week at an international conference. 

The Apprenticeship for Child Development Specialist program — a collaboration between the West Virginia Legislature, WVU Extension and other key partners — is a statewide training program that builds a competent, sustained workforce to provide quality care and education to West Virginia children. 

Free pumpkin seeds are now available at more than 70 local libraries throughout West Virginia, thanks to the Grow This: West Virginia Garden Challenge from the WVU Extension Family Nutrition Program. 

In March, three West Virginia 4-H’ers from McDowell County will travel to the Ignite by 4-H conference in Washington D.C. to teach a STEM activity with West Virginia’s “Space Gal” Emily Calandrelli.