HENV-204: What is a Watershed?

Ashley Osborne | Sep. 13, 2024 (Minor Revision)

A watershed is an area of land that drains water to a single water body.
Watersheds are as small as a few acres draining into a stream or as large as several states draining into the ocean. Smaller watersheds join together to make larger watersheds.
Kentucky is divided into seven major watersheds, or basins. Knowing what watershed you live in is a first step toward protecting water quality.
To find your watershed, visit How’s My Waterway?
https://mywaterway.epa.gov/

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HENV-203: Stormwater

Carmen Agouridis, Ashley Osborne | Aug. 15, 2024 (Minor Revision)

As stormwater moves across lawns and paved areas, it picks up bacteria, nutrients, sediments, heavy metals, and chemicals before traveling through the storm sewers to our water bodies. Because the stormwater is not cleaned or treated, it creates harmful conditions for the environment and for us.

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HENV-202: Planting Along Your Stream, Pond, or Lake

Carmen Agouridis, Ashley Osborne | Aug. 15, 2024 (Minor Revision)

Kentucky has more than 90,000 miles of rivers and streams and thousands of ponds, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands. You can improve your surroundings and the quality of your stream, pond, or lake by planting an area called a riparian buffer or buffer zone.

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4DG-1LO: Introduction to agriCULTURE

Rachel Guidugli, Isaac Hilpp, Ashley Osborne, Misty Wilmoth | Aug. 31, 2023 (New)

According to the U.S. Department of Education International Strategy Report (2012- 2016), in order for youth to succeed in the 21st century workplace, they must develop knowledge and understanding of other countries, cultures, languages, and perspectives. The overall mission of 4-H is to provide opportunities for youth and adults to work together to create sustainable community change. This is accomplished within three primary

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4AH-12PO: Cantaloupe Exhibit

Ashley Osborne | Jan. 13, 2022 (New)

The cantaloupe exhibit allows you to display the cantaloupe that you have grown in your garden. Each cantaloupe exhibited is judged on the melon's condition and quality.

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4AH-16PA: Exhibiting and Judging Vegetables

Ashley Osborne | Jan. 13, 2022 (New)

What makes certain vegetables "better" or of higher quality than others? Do you know which vegetables to choose for exhibition? Do you know how to prepare vegetables for exhibition? This factsheet will help you as you prepare to exhibit or judge vegetables. Vegetables will be evaluated on different criteria including condition, quality, uniformity, trueness-to-type, and size. Whether you are going to exhibit or judge vegetables, you will need to learn the characteristics of all of these criteria.

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4AH-13PO: Eggplant Exhibit

Ashley Osborne | Jan. 13, 2022 (New)

The eggplant exhibit allows you to display the eggplant that you have grown in your garden. The exhibit is judged on each eggplant's condition and quality, and required number of specimen.

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4AH-14PO: Summer Squash Exhibit

Ashley Osborne | Jan. 13, 2022 (New)

The summer squash exhibit allows you to display the summer squash that you have grown in your garden. The exhibit is judged on each squash's condition and quality, and required number of specimen.

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4AH-10PO: Windowsill Garden Project

Bill Fountain, Dick LeMaster, Ashley Osborne | Nov. 18, 2021 (New)

This guide is for volunteer leaders or county Extension personnel, and includes four lessons designed for youth in 3rd‐5th grades. Each lesson focuses on an aspect of seeds, plants, and/or gardening. Three additional experiments are included in the Digging Deeper section that youth can do independently or in a group or classroom setting. At the end of the guide, additional resources and an appendix are available. The National 4‐H Gardening Series, which includes 4 levels for grades 3rd‐12th and a Helper's Guide, is recommended if additional background information is needed. The National 4‐H Gardening Series includes projects and activities for youth that have an interest in continuing to learn more about plant science and gardening after completing their windowsill garden.

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4HA-10PA: Annual Container Garden

Ashley Osborne | Sep. 1, 2021 (New)

The Annual Container Garden Contest is a perfect opportunity to showcase a container garden that you have created and cared for. Remember that this contest is specific to annual, non-vegetable plants. Annuals are plants that survive for only one growing season. Kentucky's cold winter temperatures kill outdoor annuals. Annual plants are grown for their unique foliage or colorful flowers.