4-H Sponsors

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.

4-H Transition's Pony Poster

No room for a pony? Join 4-H, instead.

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.

Register Your Interest: Transition Houston 4-H at Bayland Park!

4-H at Bayland Community Center!

For a third year, Transition Houston will be helping to support a 4-H club focused on community resilience and sustainability. The new club will meet monthly--with project groups possibly meeting more often--at Bayland Community Center, 6400 Bissonnet. This survey is to gauge your interests in the club--we'd love to have you join us!

This will be a family club. Your involvement will be vital to the success of the program.

The club will be meeting the 2nd Tuesday evening of the month from August to May. Some project groups may meet more frequently.

Age requirements for 4-H are:

- 4-H Clover Kids: Ages 5-7 and in grades K-2

- 4-H Club Member: Ages 8-18 and in third grade or higher

If you would like your own 4-H club at your local school or neighborhood, you may contact the Harris County Extension Office.

Questions or comments? Please send a message to info@transitionhouston.org.

Contact Information

Parent/Guardian

Name: *

Preferred Contact Phone: *

Preferred Contact E-mail: *

Is this adult willing to be a family volunteer?: *

Yes

No

(At least one parent should commit as a club volunteer.)

Does the adult listed above have special interests or resources to share with this group?:

Parent/Guardian #2

Name:

Preferred Contact Phone:

Preferred Contact E-mail:

Is this adult willing to be a family volunteer?:

Yes

No

(At least one parent should commit as a club volunteer.)

Does the adult listed above have special interests or resources to share with this group?:

Last step:

Would you like to be on the Transition Houston e-mail list (2-4 e-mails per month)?:

Yes, please.

No, thanks.

Transition Houston 4-H Activities 2013-2014

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September

Learning About 4-H With Sheryl Nolen, Harris County Cooperative Extension

October

Bike Safety & Mechanics

November

JMG Activity: Plants as Medicine

December

Holiday Break

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January

Solar Power & The Importance of Batteries with the GBRC

February

T-shirt Bags with Carmen & David Reisdorf (Textiles Project)

March

Soldering Electronics

March Volunteer Project:

Permablitz with Transition Houston & Plant It Forward

April

Officer Nominations; Plotting 2014-2015

May

Officer Elections and Thank you Party

June, July

JMG

August

Welcome New Members Meeting for School Year 2014-2015

Click here to read about what we did in 2014-2015!

Working on 4-H sewing project, February 2014

Transition Houston 4-H Activities 2014-2015

Club Goals: Support families & projects related to sustainability & resilience

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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.

Chia pets!

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.

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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.

Resources:

Randall, Bob. Year Round Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers for Metro-Houston: A

Natural Organic Approach Using Ecology. Year Round Gardening Press, 2006.

JMG Teacher/Leader Guide, Level One.

Paper Pots: http://www.gardenbetty.com/2011/03/how-to-make-recycled-

newspaper-pots-for-seed-starting/