one of the most central components of thevalue ce brings is taking research from the university level and making it practical inpeople’s lives, giving them the tools they need to create value for themselves and forthe community 4-h opened up a whole new world for the ruralpeople and the young people in our county. 4-h is a big important part of randolph county,4-h was a big part of my life when i was young,
Randolph County Board Of Education, cause at the time we had the 4-h’s in theschools you had the 4-h’s, you had the boy scouts, you had the cub scouts, the girl scouts,the brownie scouts, you know you had all those in your schools, but along the years, it allcame out of the schools and some, some of the kids sort of drifted away from 4-h butwe got a push on now where we are trying to
get them to come back so like i said we’veeven started one at my church so a 4-h club, so one of the things i’ve learned being involvedwith extension is just how much work these agents do in the community. um i wasn’taware of half the programs that are being provided and when you think about which ifound randolph county being number 2 in beef production and number 2 in the number of smallfarms in our in our state it really puts into perspective the work that these field agentsare doing and you add to that sort of the pressing need for for youth development, forhealth and nutrition and all the work that the other agents are doing it is really essentialthat the programs and services that extension
provides for randolph county. whether it be beekeeping, or horticultureor animal husbandry, or i mean i could go on ad infintum, but, but all those thingsare certainly, extremely beneficial, not only to the rural person or to the farmer but tothe person living in town, who may just is trying to seek out some information on howto keep a certain kind of plant alive, or improve his yard or those kinds of things. in extension i learned manners, i learnedhow to be, you know, the person that i admired among these other people, and then my motherwould say, what did you learn today, and so i would go home and help her, teach her somethings, you know, how to set a table correctly,
the manners when you eat, and that type ofthing. the farmers and the people in agriculturehere are very dependent upon cooperative extension for many reasons, but mainly i think for thetechnology and advances that they receive, from nc a&t state university and from nc stateuniversity, and a whole lot of people who grew up in the city like i did have no ideahow to do this but they want to learn how to do it, well what better place to come tothan cooperative extension where you do have experts who know how to show people how toeconomically and in a very, very small way sometimes have a small garden that could feedtheir family. the best place to learn that is here.
well this was one of the nice things aboutserving as our state president, is i did visit all the areas of the state, and i got to knowthe people that were in the leadership positions in our organization and that’s very niceto know, it really is, it also made me really appreciate more what the cooperative extensionservice does and what they provide for us, we also do programming for for communitiesand for families and for any group that really, we look for issues that need some some ahhhelp, and that is a thing we like to do. i’ve been a member of this organization for 50years and this year. i am proud of the fact that i’m a homemaker. we need to do everything we can not only toencourage existing agriculture but and preserve
rural land masses, but also to encourage youngpeople to see the potential to maybe choose agriculture as a vocation. cooperative extension serves as a clearinghousefor all the people who are involved in agriculture answering their questions and showing themnew technologies that can make their farming more efficient, right, produce more cropsthat are less cost and to make them safer and more nutritious. helping people that’s the main thing, cause,like i said, some people don’t know what to do. because people don’t realize, agriculturecovers more than just farming, you have the business side of it, you have the researchside of it and a lot of people don’t realize
this but in nc 17% of employment is throughagriculture. the things that we do are practical thingsbut they are the things that are very necessary in grooming families, in keeping familieshealthy, and in teaching families the things that they need to know to to progress in lifeand to be good citizens. by continuing to do what we’re doing, byeducating the children, just like i was, to develop that love and can pass it on, that’sthe secret is the children of today and tomorrow, and it’s up to us to do this and we wantthe children to know because randolph county is such a big big county agricultural county,we want them to know the products that are produced right here on the farms, rather thangoing to the market and that’s the only
place the grocery stores they think thesethings come from. but to see the process that that we go through of of production of vegetablesand the the poultry and the beef cattle that are on their table. the 100 year mark is a perfect time to bothcelebrate and then while looking back think about the future and think about the rolethat extension is going to play in people’s lives in the next 100 years. and i think someof that is going to be the same and i think some of it is going to need to change to adaptto to the way our lives have changed, but essentially the value that extension provideshas remained constant if anything it’s grown more important and more critical to the waypeople live today.
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