By Julie Tomascik
Editor<\/p>\n
Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) awarded $18,500 to 17 county, district and state 4-H programs through the Clover Cash Grant Program.<\/p>\n
Now in its seventh year, the program continues to inspire 4-H members to explore agriculture through creative, innovative and engaging educational projects.<\/p>\n
\u201cClover Cash grants give 4-H programs additional resources to bring agriculture into their communities in creative ways,\u201d said Dr. Clarissa Darby, TFB Youth Outreach coordinator. \u201cThese projects give students opportunities to learn by doing and build a stronger understanding of agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 17 funded projects cover a range of agricultural topics and learning experiences. Grant funds will support livestock clinics and judging programs, gardening and embryology projects, food science and cooking activities, career exploration and agricultural advocacy and leadership programs. Several projects also incorporate STEM concepts and hands-on activities designed to reach students beyond traditional agricultural settings.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach 4-H program knows what will connect with youth in its community,\u201d Darby said. \u201cClover Cash helps them turn those ideas into educational experiences that can introduce more students to agriculture and the opportunities it offers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Programs that received county-level grants include:
Cedar Park 4-H Gavel Club
Amount: $500
Growing Healthy Futures<\/p>\n
Wilson County AgriLife Extension
Amount: $500
Hatching in the Classroom<\/p>\n
Brazoria County 4-H
Amount: $500
New Club Garden<\/p>\n
Rusk County 4-H
Amount: $500
Rusk County Youth Beef Field Day<\/p>\n
Brush Country 4-H
Amount: $750
Livestock Clinic<\/p>\n
Chambers County AgriLife Extension
Amount: $750
Mr. Etouffee<\/p>\n
McCulloch County 4-H
Amount: $750
Exploring Careers in Agriculture Curriculum Enrichment Program<\/p>\n
Cattle Drive 4-H
Amount: $750
Spur Bowl Invitational Food Challenge<\/p>\n
Salt Fork 4-H Club
Amount: $1,000
Clover Connection: Learning Livestock & Leadership<\/p>\n
Kaufman County 4-H
Amount: $1,000
Back to Basics Livestock Literacy<\/p>\n
Cen-Tex Cornerstone 4-H Club
Amount: $1,000
Agricultural Food Science and Nutrition Education Program<\/p>\n
Programs that received district-level grants include:
Hardin County 4-H
Amount: $1,500
SPARK \u2013 Junior Leadership Lab<\/p>\n
District 2 4-H
Amount: $1,500
Fall into D2<\/p>\n
District 12 4-H
Amount: $1,500
District 12 Livestock Judging<\/p>\n
Programs that received state-level grants include:
Texas 4-H Council
Amount: $2,000
SPARK \u2013 Junior Leadership Lab<\/p>\n
Texas 4-H Youth Livestock and Agriculture Advocacy Academy
Amount: $2,000
Texas 4-H Advocacy Academy<\/p>\n
Texas 4-H Youth Livestock and Agriculture Agribusiness Academy
Amount: $2,000
Texas 4-H Agribusiness Academy<\/p>\n
More information
For more information about the Clover Cash Grant Program, visit the\u00a0TFB Youth webpage<\/a>\u00a0or contact\u00a0youthactivities@txfb.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Julie TomascikEditor Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) awarded $18,500 to 17 county, district and state 4-H programs through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19154,155748,4534,155749,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-453243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-clover-cash","tag-clover-cash-grant-recipients","tag-grant","tag-grant-recipients","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}