June 2017

Laurel County 200 County Extension Rd. London, KY 40741 (606) 864-4167 Fax: (606) 864-4168 www.ca.uky.edu/laurel

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, AND KENTUCKY COUNTIES, COOPERATING

Agent for 4-H Youth Development

Ashley Adkins

CAMP CLOVER BUD

When: July 21-23

Where: J.M. Feltner 4-H Camp

Deadline to sign up is 7/7/17

For: Children Ages 6-8

Agent for 4-H Youth Development

2017 4-H Camp Highlights Super Heroes

The “Grand Adventures” Club worked on birdhouses at their last meeting of the year. Classes will

resume in September.

5th grade students at Colony Elementary helped dig out over-grown gardens and fill them with new soil as well as building the sides of the beds. The students planted pump-kins seeds and the gar-dens will be used for a life cycle project with Kindergarten students next year.

This spring 4-H classrooms at Hazel Green and Colony schools gained some new additions. Embryolo-gy projects allowed 4-H’ers to experience the develop-ment and hatching process of baby chicks. Youth learned to care for the eggs in their incubators, by checking humidity and temperature and making sure the eggs were being turned each day. Youth also got to candle the eggs to watch the embryos grow over the 21 day incubation period. On hatching day students got to witness the chicks pipping from their shells and learned how to care for them in brooders during their first days. This project is a 4-H favorite, and students have enjoyed learning from this hands-on experience.

4-H Cooking Academy Ten student enrolled in the 4-H Cooking Acad-emy which continued for 3 sessions lasting 2 hours each. Students learned about food basic safety, kitchen basic safety, measuring basics, and then Cooking “How To” Basics. Week One they learned how to make appetizers; individu-al pizzas and smoothies. Week Two they learned how to make side dishes such as scal-loped corn. This recipe required the use of cut-ting skills and measuring. Week Three they learned how to put it all together and make a meal consisting of pasta with homemade sauce, salad and breadsticks. The students then served their parents for a wonderful family meal.

Area Communica-tions Day & Variety Show Highlights

1 tablespoon honey

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 teaspoon light soy sauce

1/4 teaspoon ginger

1 cup pineapple or orange juice

1 tablespoon cornstarch

2 teaspoons oil

1 pound frozen stir-fry vegetables (or use fresh)

1. Combine all ingredients except vegetables into bowl, mix, and set aside.

2. Heat 2 teaspoons of oil in skillet and add frozen vegetables. Cook for 3-4 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender.

3. Add sweet and sour sauce, and cook for another 2 minutes or until mixture comes to a boil.

4. Serve immediately. This dish is great over pasta or brown rice.

Ingredients Healthy Summer Recipes for Kids:

Sweet & Sour Vegetables

Pictured above: Presley Morgan, Pax-ton Thorpe, AbbyThompson, Brandy Fields, Megan Parsley and Jocelyn Jackson The six students from Laurel County participated in the Area Communica-tions Day & Variety Show Competi-tion. Students demonstrated every-thing from how to make a birdhouse from a grapefruit to microwave cake and 7 density layer columns.

Brandy Fields– How to Make a Birdhouse from an orange.

Presley Morgan singing, “Gold Dust Woman,” by Stevie Nicks

Jocelyn Jackson– How to Make Mi-crowave cake.

Megan Parsley received a champion ribbon for her demonstration on 7 layer densi-ty columns

Laurel County Super Showman Livestock Club learned about the difference in digestive tracts in animals this month. A big thanks to Jessica Morris,

Wolfe County 4-H agent, for helping make this possible!!!Also everyone re-member the Laurel County Ag Fair will be next month. July 18th - 21st.

Everyone should be getting their animals ready for the shows!

The 4-H District 2 Horse Show and fundraising show were both huge successes this year. Six qualifiers from Laurel County will have the opportunity to participate in the 4-H State Horse

Show in Louisville this summer. Congrats Abbey Blair, Becca Cornn, Miranda Jackson, Morgan Sears, Cara Hibbard, and McKenna Fojtek.

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8 Photography Workshop Level 1 & 11 10 am -3 pm / Poultry Club @ 5:30

9 Photography Workshop Level 3 2– 5 pm

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13 Arts—Sand Painting 5:30—7:00 PM

14 15 Baking School -Snickerdoodle Cookies 1-3 PM

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18 19 Rabbit & Poultry Validation 4 PM

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25 26 Teen Club Meeting @ 5:00 P.M.

27 Baking School - Soft Pretzels 5 - 7 PM Livestock Club @ 6:30 PM

28 Hazel Green 10:30-11:30 Gardening/nutrition pro-gram

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Laurel County 200 County Extension Rd. London, KY 40741 (606) 864-4167 Fax: (606) 864-4168 www.ca.uky.edu/laurel

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June 2017