Build Engaged and Empowered Communities – General Major Program

2813

Total Hours

Contributed.

14943

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

13

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

662

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of Extension empowered individuals engaged in coalitions or organizations to address a significant community issue

501

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Modern Homesteading Club: Reviving Old Skills, Building Community, and Nurturing Families

Modern Homesteading member selling her art, Homemakers bazaar 2023The problem: During a summer canning class participants were discussing the desire to learn many new skills. The challenge was the knowledge of fundamental skills that were once commonplace in households. The participants expressed a desire to reconnect with these old skills such as canning, sewing, family support, food dehydration, small farm animal production, and artistic endeavors. The educational program response: In response...

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Modern Homesteading Club: Reviving Old Skills, Building Community, and Nurturing Families

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