A 4-H club focused on sustainability and supported in part by Transition Houston
meets most months during the school year at Bayland Park Community Center, 6400 Bissonnet.
Since 2013 we have enjoyed a variety of family activities,
including a focus on food & horticulture last year.
If you enjoy making, growing, and exploring, please register your interest at the link below,
and we will contact you with more information as soon as we can:
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You can send comments or questions to info@transitionhouston.org.
Curious about 4-H in Texas? Read more at http://texas4-h.tamu.edu/,
follow Harris County 4-H on Facebook,
or listen to a 2014 news story about 4-H on KUHF's Houston Matters.
We are looking for in-kind donations to help us support our eager students. Contact us at info@transitionhouston.org for information on how you can help.
We offer classes and activities in photography, sewing, animal science, and more. Even horses. For more information or to join the club visit www.transitionhouston.org/4-H.
August
We explained 4-H and talked about our year. Leaders attended Harris County 4-H's leadership camp.
September
Angela Chandler taught us how to make Self-Watering Container Gardens.
October
We got some buckets from All We Need Farms, some extra PVC, and some soil and seeds and made self-watering container gardens for the community center.
Field Trip
We went to one family’s neighborhood to look at different types of backyard vegetable gardens. We also looked at the family’s log cabin, chickens, and root cellar.
November
We did a “Food Bank Fiesta”--we tried to figure out what parts of plants the different foods we eat come from. Then we left all our food in the Food Bank box at the community center. One weekend, some members attended a one-day 4-H cooking and food safety event at Bear Creek.
Service Project: Care Kits for the Homeless
The club met at a family’s house and two of the members taught the others how to make t-shirt bags. We filled them with essential toiletries like toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, pens, and paper. We took the bags to Lord of the Streets when we took our coat and clothing donation in December.
December
First, we gathered coats from people in our community. In the end, our club had a trunk full of coats and sweaters to deliver! Then, we made chia pets out of panty hose and soil, and we decorated them with buttons, paint, and a hot glue gun.
January
We brought newspaper, soil, and seeds, and two members taught the rest of the club how to make newspaper pots for transplanting seedlings. One weekend, some 4-H'ers attended sewing service workshops at Bear Creek with 4-H and Master Gardener volunteers.
February
We experimented with using Skype, a VoIP (Voice over IP) app that allows videoconferencing. County-level competitions began for some projects.
March
Harris CERT invited us to a meeting with LifeFlight from Memorial Hermann. We watched the helicopter land and take off, and we got to talk to the paramedic, flight nurse, and pilot.
April
We took a break to get ready for D-9, a district-level competition weekend at Alvin Community College.
May
We harvested carrots from our container gardens, and took the containers home for the summer. We talked about plans for next year. We decided we would have more meetings over Zoom.us so that more people could come without driving so far or worrying about homework.