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4-H, Alyssa Seitz
After school activities are in full swing! This month I got to host activities:
- where kindergartener participants learned about the opportunities available to them in 4-H and participated in a science lesson taught by a 4-H agent.
- for elementary-aged students, where participants were able to participate in multiple drama related activities.
- where youth learned about nature, including pollinators, migration, and forest management.
- where participants learned about nature topics, including migration, pollinators and forest management.
- where youth learned about making healthy food choices and where their food comes from.
- for elementary school students where they learned about making healthy food choices and tried new foods.
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These activities build relationships between students and 4-H agents, encourage youth to explore new areas of interest, learn about new 4-H projects and learn more about the 4-H program.
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Community Development, Mia Ljung
Planned for a virtual offering of Introduction to Plain Language workshop with UW-Madison’s Cultural Linguistic Services. The training is promoted to nonprofits, local government, and educational institutions to apply plain language guidelines in internal and external communications to save time, energy and money. This was offered to a statewide audience, and we noted high representation from Outagamie and Winnebago counties.
Planning for the Outagamie/Winnebago business competition, Fast Pitch, Wednesday, November 13, 5-8 pm, at the Timber Rattlers Stadium | The Fox Den | 2400 N Casaloma Drive, Appleton. New this year is the $500 Audience Choice Award - visit https://go.wisc.edu/fastpitch to learn more and consider attending in the audience!
Updated the Community Gardens in the Fox Valley & Oshkosh Area Directory, with lots of help from Amy Beck, Robin Franitza, and Becky Zoglman. The idea is to have a centralized community gardens directory and YOU can help by adding to it if you know of a garden that isn’t listed. Learn more here: https://winnebago.extension.wisc.edu/community-gardens/
Educational meetings with economic development professionals where they learned about resources, assistance, and programs available to organizations and entrepreneurs in the counties. The purpose of this effort is to support NEW North and NEWREP in achieving their goal to improve the economy and quality of life in Northeastern Wisconsin. Total Reach: About 35 economic development professionals in Northeast Wisconsin every two weeks.
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Crops and Soils, Kevin Jarek
Planning to coordinate Extension educators statewide to ensure uniform data collection related to corn silage harvest management. The goal is to share whole plant moisture with forage growers in each region and aggregate additional silage data including planting date, relative maturity, corn hybrid, fungicide use, grain stage and previous crops. This data would be utilized to inform future corn silage harvest recommendations.
A total of five farms and agribusinesses in Winnebago and Outagamie Counties hosted Corn Silage Drydown events sponsored by Extension Winnebago and the Outagamie Forage Council during the month of September. A total of 116 samples were processed at these five events with moisture results shared to help farmers maximize the yield and quality of the 2024 corn silage crop. Results available at Drydown Results – Extension Outagamie County. Neighboring counties of Shawano, Oconto, Brown, Calumet, and Waupaca all had field samples tested at these events.
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Dairy, Stephanie Bowers
Badger Dairy Insight is a monthly webinar offered to dairy farmers and dairy industry professionals around topics related to reproduction, nutrition, emerging technologies, and animal welfare to increase their knowledge around the latest University research. The nutrition workgroup provided speakers to talk about research done on grazing heifers and how that fits into the modern dairy concept. We also had a speaker talk about virtual fencing and how they work. Attendees and those watching the recording of the presentations will have knowledge on climate smart technology for raising heifers on pasture and how to incorporate virtual fencing on farms.
Planning is underway for a training and field day for dairy heifer grazing technical service providers in collaboration with USDA-NRCS, SARE, Grassland 2.0, Tilth Agronomy, Glacierland Resource Conservation and Development, WI Land + Water, Wisconsin DNR, and WAPAC, so that technical service providers can expand their knowledge of dairy heifer grazing for economic and ecological outcomes.
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FoodWIse, Miranda Dawson
A collaborative effort was initiated this summer between FoodWIse, the Appleton Farmers Market and Be Well Fox Valley resulted in 565 pounds of gleaned fruits and vegetables redistributed among three donation sites increasing access to fresh produce for families and individuals with limited incomes.
FoodWIse Nutrition Educators in Waupaca and Outagamie County supported local schools and organizations in their region to participate in the Great Apple Crunch, a celebration of local growers and producers by procuring local apples and crunching into them together on October 10th.
FoodWIse is teaming up with the WI Food Hub Cooperative to help schools and food pantries procure local foods for school meals and increase access to fresh local produce for families and individuals with limited incomes through Farm to School and Local Foods Promotion Grants.
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Healthy Communities, Hannah Phillips
FoodWIse coordinates, facilitates, and manages communications for a community collaborative ("Fox Valley Network for Wellbeing") where individuals and agencies come together to build relationships and address needs and opportunities related to physical wellbeing in Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago Counties. Through this network, new partnerships can develop, and relationships and communication channels can be maintained to address emerging community needs.
FoodWIse is also leading a collaborative group within this network that aims to take action to improve the health of community members. The group is currently assessing needs and assets in the community to understand how it can best direct its efforts.
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Human Development and Relationships, Katie GellingsIn October, I taught two Money Matters Live lessons. Money Matters Live is a series of four 1 hour, discussion-based sessions where participants learn strategies to improve their personal finances. Topics for the series include credit, debt, financial goal setting, budgeting, savings, financial recordkeeping, and others. The goal of the series is to help improve the financial knowledge and confidence of participants and provide them with strategies to improve their personal finances.
I also had an informational booth at the Senior Autumn Fest in Hortonville in early October. I shared Extension resources on caregiving and upcoming Human Development and Relationships programs like the Aging Mastery Program and Planning AHEAD.
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