Master Gardeners
This year marks when North Carolina Extension Master Gardener Volunteers first began guiding homeowners with research-based practices.
What is 1979?
ECA provides education in these three main areas.
What are health, wellness, and family & consumer sciences?
This is the age range eligible to participate in 4-H.
What are ages 5–18?
NC farmers use this process to determine nutrient levels and pH before planting.
What is soil testing?
NC Cooperative Extension works in these three broad areas.
What is Agriculture, Family Consumer Sciences, and 4-H ?
This is the number of instructional hours required before participants graduate and become interns in Cabarrus County.
What are 40 hours?
This year marks when the first NC Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs was organized.
What is 1920?
The 4-Hs stand for these four areas of youth development.
What are Head, Heart, Hands, and Health?
North Carolina is one of the top U.S. producers of this orange root vegetable.
What are sweet potatoes?
These two universities serves as North Carolina’s land-grant institution and partnered to create NC Cooperative Extension.
EMGVs are trained to provide gardening advice that is based on this type of information.
What is research-based information?
ECA’s mission focuses on strengthening families and improving this aspect of community life.
What is quality of life?
4-H teaches youth using this hands-on learning approach.
What is learning by doing?
This is North Carolina’s top agricultural commodity by cash value.
What is poultry (broilers/turkeys)?
This is the main purpose of Cooperative Extension work.
What is to extend research-based education to the public?
This is the name of the monthly gardening newsletter associated with the program.
What is The Cultivator’s Corner?
Cabarrus ECA offers this type of financial support to students in the community.
What are scholarships?
4-H’ers document their project work in these records submitted for judging each year.
What are 4-H Project Records?
This natural resource industry is one of North Carolina’s top economic contributors alongside agriculture.
What is forestry?
Cooperative Extension operates in this many states across the U.S.
What is all 50 states?
This year the pollinator garden was officially planted by Extension Master Gardener volunteers.
What is 2022?
This publication shares updates and inspiration from ECA clubs across North Carolina.
What is Tarheel Homemakers E-News?
This phrase is the official 4-H pledge.
What is “I pledge my Head to clearer thinking, my Heart to greater loyalty, my Hands to larger service, and my Health to better living…”?
This NC program allows landowners to voluntarily protect farmland and keep it in agricultural use.
What is the Voluntary Agricultural District (VAD) program?
This federal law established Cooperative Extension in 1914 as a partnership between USDA and land-grant universities.
What is the Smith-Lever Act?