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Master Gardener Program

Master Gardeners act on behalf of VCE as a volunteer education after receiving specialized training in environmental horticulture through cooperative programming with VCE.  These volunteer educators serve as partners with VCE to promote; inform; and work with communities, leader, industry, and individuals by presenting programs on all aspects of horticulture to protect and enhance the environment, including turf, landscape, vegetables, trees and shrubs, and pest management practices.

Livestock Production

The Tazewell County Extension Office offers research based information about livestock production in the areas of animal health, livestock management facilities, livestock feed nutrition analysis, marketing and forage grazing plans.   

Crop Production

The Tazewell County Extension Office offers research based information in the field of crop production.  VCE offers programs that include soil management, fertilization, soil test analysis, and planting information.

Pest Management

The Tazewell County Extension Office offers programs to certified producers to apply restricted pesticides safely.

Damage Assessment and Emergency Preparedness

The Tazewell County Extension Office offers programs to prepare and help citizens in cases of a natural disasters.  The Extension office  monitors drought to determine local decorations that can result in assistance through other state and federal programs.

Virginia Tech Disaster Resilience & Risk Management Program (DRRM)

and Virginia Cooperative Extension Partnership

Disasters affect people across all walks of life, and creating resilience and restoring communities requires collaboration among a wide range of researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders. Virginia Tech’s graduate program in Disaster Resilience and Risk Management (DRRM) promotes this collaboration through a transdisciplinary experience designed to train business analysts, educators, engineers, scientists, and urban planners to help better prepare for, respond to, and recover from the devastating natural disasters that now regularly ravage communities and ecosystems across the globe. The program brings together faculty and students in civil and environmental engineering, urban affairs and planning, public and international affairs, geosciences, business information technology, and other disciplines to develop modes of thinking and problem solving that take us beyond outdated approaches based exclusively/solely on the perspective of a single discipline. Moreover, because disaster resilience is a community issue, we believe it is critical that academic researchers learn from and collaborate with on-the-ground practitioners and stakeholders to develop approaches rooted in context-specific needs and resources. 

For more information about the program click HERE

Check out this WVVA News story:

WVVA News story - November 17, 2020 - "Putting natural disasters under a microscope"

Tazewell County 4-H is a rapidly growing program providing youth ages 5-19 with opportunities to engage in hands-on learning experiences through in-school programming, special interest clubs, camp, and more! These programs are made possible by trained, caring adult volunteers under the guidance of the Tazewell County 4-H Agent and 4-H Program Assistant.

 

The youth development education program of Virginia Cooperative Extension, 4-H is rich with learning experiences in which young people partner with caring adults and volunteers in a fellowship unlike any other program available to youth today. Through 4-H, young people are encouraged to participate in a variety of activities that emphasize 4-H's "learning by doing" philosophy of youth development.

4-H Mission

The mission of 4-H is to assist youth, and adults working with those youth, to gain additional knowledge, life skills, and attitudes that will further their development as self-directing, contributing, and productive members of society.

4-H Symbol

4-H Clover

The 4-H emblem is federally protected under Section 18 US Code 707 and belongs to the Congress of the United States. The official emblem is green with white H's -- the 4-H colors. The white symbolizes purity. The green represents nature's most common color and is emblematic of youth, life, and growth.

Official emblems can be downloaded from National 4-H Headquarters. You must have authorization from your local 4-H program to use these graphics.

4-H Motto

To Make the Best Better!

4-H Pledge

I Pledge…
My Head to clearer thinking,
My Heart to greater loyalty,
My Hands to larger service,
and My Health to better living,
for my club, my community, my country, and my world.

                The Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent position in  Tazewell County is currently vacant.

Visit www.swvafoodsafety.org for information on classes and events being offered in our area.

You may also visit the SWVA Food Safety Facebook page HERE.

 

The Family Nutrition Program's mission is to teach limited-resource families and youth how to make healthier food choices and become better managers of available food resources for optimal health and grownth.   Our programs focus on basic nutrition, physical activity, safe food handling, and thrifty food shopping.

For more information about the Family Nutrition Program in your community, please call Ella Whitt, Family Nutrition Program Assistant.

Engaging with Communities

Virginia Cooperative Extension specialists in community viability work with Extension agents, campus-based faculty, organizational partners, communities, and individuals to further opportunity and build capacity in five program areas:   

Examples of our work include training county elected officials, educating entrepreneurs, facilitating collaborative projects, supporting the growth of community food systems and local economies, enhancing agent skills and community capacity in facilitation and leadership, conducting problem-driven research, and creating publications and tools that address critical community needs.

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Community Viability Specialists

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