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Impact Report
| For plan | Youth Development (McKinley County) |
| Date | October 16, 2009, 5:41 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | YCC (youth conservation corps) Master Gardening Program Coordinated eight educational programs for the youth conservation corps related to gardening and water shed management. This will be an on-going program for the next several years and hopefully we’ll be able to offer them college credit for these classes in the future. The agent and the YCC program coordinator have developed the schedule training time to qualify for a 2 to 3 credit hour class. This year the topics cover were developed around the work that they were scheduled for this summer. It is a requirement of the YCC grant that the youth be giving educational training while they are working. Topics covered this year: 1. Basic Gardening – Joran Viers 2. Water Shed Management – Rossana Sallenare 3. Plant Pathology – Natalie Goldberg 4. Soils- Robert Flynn 5. Veggie & Fruit Management & Drip Irrigation – Ron Walser 6. Insects and their control – Carol Sutherland 7. Botany – Curtis Smith 8. Water Harvesting & Xeriscape – Curtis Smith These youth ranged in age from 14 to 19, 35 youth participated in this program. Their favorite program was plant pathology. Natalie brought microscope and some pretty gross samples for the kids to look at and talk about. They interacted well with her and kept asking questions about various samples. Next, the soils class was half classroom instruction and then outside in the field. Robert took them out and did actual hands-on soil typing and testing. All the classes were excellent and the youth are looking forward to next year. The agent compiled notebooks for all the youth. |