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.
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WVU 4-H'ers place at national land judging competition, continuing programs success
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 Grow This Throwdown wins two international awards
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.
WVU Extension faculty helping bridge child care gap in West Virginia
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 available from WVU Extension
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.
WVU Extension STEMCARE collaborates to educate ahead of solar eclipse
McDowell County 4-H’ers to represent West Virginia at national conference
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.
Grow This launches free online gardening classes featuring WVU Extension experts
Grow This, West Virginia University Extension’s free seed program, has launched a new series of online classes to help budding gardeners grow their best garden yet.
Grow This plants seed that ignited WVU student’s passion for natural dyes and textiles
Sometimes planting a seed can lead to more growth than you ever expected. West Virginia University graduate student Cassandra Stewart is the perfect example of that. Seeds from WVU Extension’s Grow This program led Cassandra, a graduate research assistant studying design and merchandising in the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, to make textiles using natural dyes from flowers she grew.
WVU Extension offers training course and demonstration event to reduce risk of injury for arborists and logging professionals
Arborists and loggers must use the utmost precaution in their jobs as there is a high risk of injuries and fatalities. To reduce these risks, West Virginia University Extension Safety and Health is hosting two events, a logging demonstration and training event and a chainsaw safety and tree felling training course to improve safety conditions in the logging and arboriculture industry.