Category: 4-H & Youth

Meet the local expert helping St. Lucie residents stretch budgets, launch businesses and reach their big goals

by Lourdes Mederos
August 11, 2025

Whether you dream of owning a home, launching a food business or trying to stretch your budget, Josey Pearce Keener is ready to help. A Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) agent at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Home Management, Money Matters, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: 4-H, Banking, Business, Family And Consumer Sciences, Finance, First-time Homebuying, HUD-approved First Time Homebuyer, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Josey Pearce Keener, Living On My Own, News, Rancher, UF IFAS Family And Consumer Sciences, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Extension St. Lucie County, University Of Florida, Youth

Astronomical Agriculture Activities – Clay County 4-H to Offer 2 Space Themed Programs this Fall

by Elaine Simfukwe
August 11, 2025

Tomatoes, trees, and space have more in common than you think. Clay County 4-H is hosting two agricultural space themed programs this fall. First, youth have the opportunity to participate in the national Tomatosphere science project ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth
Tags: Clay County, Clay County 4-H, STEM

Put the Phone Down: 4-H Meetings Deserve your Full Attention

by Tycee Prevatt
August 8, 2025

The Florida 4-H Code of Conduct states: “Use of any mobile electronic device during a scheduled 4-H activity is prohibited unless activity-specific rules otherwise allow. When permitted, they should be used only in a manner that is consistent ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Clubs & Volunteers,
Tags: 4-h Club, 4-H Meeting, Cell Phone, Code Of Conduct

Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Galen Nightingale

by Shane Teachworth
August 8, 2025

One of the best features of the University of Florida is its range of educational programs, with over 100 undergraduate majors. This not only helps to bring in a diverse pool of students, but it also gives those students an opportunity to synthesize ... READ MORE

Category: Curriculum
Tags: Galen Nightingale, Undergraduate

Celebrating the People Who Make It Possible

by elonnberg
August 7, 2025

An In-Depth Look at Long-term Volunteer Leaders of Sarasota 4-H Amazing volunteers, leaders and parents make 4-H the organization it is today. Sarasota interviewed some of these incredible people who have had a great influence on 4-H. Don Strickland, ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Clubs & Volunteers
Tags: Club, Experience, Pgm_4H, Volunteer

Expanding Agriculture: Workforce Seminar 2025

by Marnie Ward
August 7, 2025

Exploring the Future of Agriculture—Hands-on, High-Tech, and Full of Opportunity Seventy-five years ago, the Green Revolution transformed agriculture with science-driven advances in crop production. Today, agriculture is on the brink of ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Curriculum, Events, Relationships & Family

Sarasota County Attends 4-H University

by Erin Nadel
August 6, 2025

During the extent of this internship, I had the opportunity to help lead 4-H’ers through 4-H University. History 4-H University, originally Florida 4-H Congress, is a 4-day conference for senior-level youth across Florida. At the event, ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Clubs & Volunteers, Curriculum, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: 4H, Pgm_4H, UF/IFAS Extension

Career Paths Around the Tree of Life

by Donna Corbelli Castro
August 6, 2025

Agriculture literally is the tree of life for everyone on the planet. Without agriculture, we could not support the population as it exists now. In fact, it was agriculture that enabled many countries to establish. Previously in history, ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Forests, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, Professional Development, Turf, UF/IFAS Extension, , Wildlife
Tags: Agriculture, Arboriculture, Careers, Certifications, Ecology, Green Industry, Horticulture

Teaching, Learning, and Leading: A Summer with 4-H

by Kenan Bridges
August 5, 2025

Starting Where I Began: A Full-Circle Moment After such a meaningful experience, I thought it would be important to end my internship the same way I started - with a blog. As a reminder, I am a Health Education and Behavior major and my main ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Camp, Curriculum, Health & Nutrition

Graduate Student Spotlight with Gabriella Dickinson: Exploring Plant Metabolism through Biochemistry

by Eva Sailly
August 5, 2025

Gabriella Dickinson, our student spotlight, is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (PMCB) program at the University of Florida. Working in Dr. Gilles Basset’s lab, she studies the biosynthesis of prenylated ... READ MORE

Category: Curriculum, Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Basset Lab, Graduate Student, Horticultural Sciences, Ph.D., Plant Breeding, Plant Molecular And Cellular Biology, Plant Science, PMCB, Student, Teaching, UF/IFAS CALS

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