Pandemic response: 4-H'ers learn about agriculture through seed-of-the-month club
Louisiana Agriculture
; 64:3, 2021.
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in English
| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-1918553
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic presented many challenges for the LSU AgCenter 4-H program. To meet social distancing guidelines and ensure the safety of youth and agents, many of programming efforts transitioned to a virtual format. However, the need remained for hands-on learning opportunities. 4-H programming is driven by the motto "learn by doing", and it was paramount that agents provide purposeful and engaging activities. The 4-H Seed-of-the-Month Club is a project club that emerged to meet that need. Agents created a nine-month seed subscription made available to youth across the region beginning in August 2020. With this project, participating youth were provided seeds of various plants, including pine seedlings, rainbow carrots, easter egg radishes, lettuce, green beans, okra, squash and coneflowers. Agents used the LSU AgCenter Louisiana planting guide to select the seeds to offer each month. In the future, agents and youth alike have expressed an interest in continuing to provide horticulture opportunities through the delivery mode of the Seed-of-the-Month Club. Participants were asked to provide top choices for their gardens by receiving carrots, lettuce and green bean seeds for the future.
Horticultural Crops [FF003]; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology) [KK100]; Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products [SS200]; Plant Production [FF100]; seeds; seedlings; carrots; radishes; lettuces; okras; squashes; pines; Pinus; Daucus carota; Raphanus sativus; Lactuca sativa; Phaseolus vulgaris; Abelmoschus esculentus; Cucurbita; Echinacea; Louisiana; USA; Pinaceae; Pinopsida; Pinophyta; gymnosperms; Spermatophyta; plants; eukaryotes; Daucus; Apiaceae; Apiales; eudicots; angiosperms; Raphanus; Brassicaceae; Brassicales; Lactuca; Asteraceae; Asterales; Phaseolus; Papilionoideae; Fabaceae; Fabales; Abelmoschus; Malvaceae; Malvales; Cucurbitaceae; Cucurbitales; Delta States of USA; Southern States of USA; APEC countries; high income countries; North America; America; OECD Countries; very high Human Development Index countries; Gulf States of USA; West South Central States of USA; bhindi; ladies fingers; United States of America
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Louisiana Agriculture
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2021
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