{"id":131839,"date":"2026-03-07T01:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131839\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:18:05","slug":"pennsylvania-4-h-week-to-be-celebrated-march-15-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131839\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania 4-H Week to Be Celebrated March 15-21"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014 Communities and 4-H members across the state will celebrate Pennsylvania 4-H Week from March 15-21 and promote the organization through special activities.<\/p>\n

The term \u201c4-H\u201d often calls to mind youngsters showing calves and sheep at a county fair. But agriculture is only part of what makes up 4-H, Penn State Extension 4-H administrators said.<\/p>\n

With a focus on hands-on learning, 4-H members can explore technology<\/a>, civic engagement, healthy living, fashion design, cooking, environmental stewardship, forestry and wildlife, entomology, community service, and other subjects. 4-H is the state\u2019s largest youth development organization, with clubs in rural communities, small towns, suburbs and big cities.<\/p>\n

Nationally, nearly 6 million children and teens ages 8 to 18 participate in 4-H. In Pennsylvania, 4-H reaches more than 150,000 youth in all 67 counties and includes a network of more than 3,500 adult volunteers.<\/p>\n

Administered in Pennsylvania by Penn State Extension, 4-H is a nonformal educational youth-development program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that helps young people develop knowledge and skills to become capable, caring and contributing citizens.<\/p>\n

To find your local program, visit the Penn State Extension website at\u00a0https:\/\/extension.psu.edu\/programs\/4-H<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Penn State Ag Sciences News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014 Communities and 4-H members across the state will celebrate Pennsylvania 4-H Week from March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58609,227,28,30,29,61149],"class_list":["post-131839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-4-h","tag-education","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-youth-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}