4-H enrollment forms are available for download here for the fourth through sixth, seventh-eighth and ninth-12th grades. Feel free to photocopy the forms you need. For additional information, call the LSU AgCenter's Ascension Parish 4-H office at (225) 621-5799.

4-H is a community of young people across America who are learning leadership, citizenship and life skills with the help of volunteer leaders and agents with the LSU AgCenter. Become a 4-H member or a volunteer leader today! Visit here for contact information on your local 4-H programs in Ascension Parish! We have provided a list of all our 4-H Clubs in Ascension Parish including a club for home-schoolers.

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The 4-H SET Club is an after-school 4-H Club for fourth- through 12th-graders. The club hosts monthly activities including field trips and workshops.

Recorded minutes of the August 2008 Ascension Parish Joint Leadership Council

All Louisiana 4-H members are invited to participate in the upcoming 4-H Honey Bee Essay Contest sponsored by the Louisiana Beekeepers Association and the Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees, Inc.

Topics covered include: National 4-H Week, rabbit show, cookie contest, SET Club, beef and poultry cookery, Challenge Camp, shooting sports, fashion forward, 4-H football game, camp theme contest, Sew with Cotton contest, 4-H pizza day, food and fitness facts and livestock news.

Ascension Parish 4-H is starting a First Lego League robotics team. Read more here...

"Learn by doing" is the 4-H club slogan. 4-H members don't just read about things; they do them.

Sea Grant Extension Project Faculty and Agents

Louisiana Fisheries Web site listing resources and publications, including newsletters and magazines.

Sea Grant Extension Project Faculty and Agents.

Topics covered include: calendar of events, information on Ascension 4-H, Junior Leader Social, SET Club, FLL Team, Shooting Sports, FArm Day, Fashion Camp, Pumpkin decorating contests, egg cookery, chicken que, challenge camp, national 4-H week, officer training workshop, fashion board, 4-H Football game, photos and articles of summer activities, Cloverbuds, food and fitness facts and livestock news.

The 4-H Junior Leader Club is for 4-H members in grades 7-12 who wish to participate in leadership and community services opportunities. Each year qualifying Junior Leaders are awarded with a fun, educataional trip at the end of the year.

Ascension 4-H'ers have the opportunity to attend a variety of camps starting in the 4th grade through their senior year in high school. Read about the different camps offered here.

The parish offers many opportunities for youth interested in the world of fashion. Youth can serve on leadership boards, attend fashion camps and enter sewing contests.

Schools throughout the parish have in-school 4-H clubs. These clubs meet monthly for educational programs, projects and fun.

This system gives 4-H volunteers resources for training and tracking their hours. Volunteers can enter volunteer hours, impact stories, mileage and expenses. The system has online training modules, helpful guides and links to volunteer resources.

Cloverbuds is a program within 4-H that is uniquely designed for 3rd graders. It offers developmentally age appropriate, fun learning activities.

The Ascension Parish Outdoor Skills and Shooting Sports club meets throughout the year to work on marksmanship, wildlife, hunting and conservation projects.

Describes symptoms, pest and instructions to follow if a homeowner discovers the Asian citrus psyllid, which is most closely associated with the spread of citrus greening. If the pest is found, the quarantine prevents citrus producers from selling anywhere except to other infected parishes.

4-H can trace its roots in Louisiana to the boys' corn club, which began in Avoyelles Parish in 1908 with the help of the parish superintendent of education, V. L. Roy, and the dean of the College of Agriculture, Dr. W.R. Dodson.

Five Ascension Parish 4-H'ers were chosen to serve on 4-H state leadership boards for the 2009-2010 year.

The River Road Africian American Museum provides a rare glimpse into the past of the struggles and achievements of the enslaved and free people who became the craftsmen, physicians, artists, musicians, healers, inventors, politicians and educators of this area known as "plantation country."

4-H'ers from Ascension Parish participated in a three-day event held June 23-25, 2009, at LSU. View video highlights of winners and participants from 4-H University can be found here.

Order form for state Louisiana Master Gardener program fee.

Citrus greening is one of the most serious citrus diseases, and a pest responsible for spreading it has now been found in Louisiana. Information on what to look for and where to look, what plants are preferred by the disease and where to report suspected disease symptoms or insect sightings.

Importance of Soil Fertility, Method for Proper Soil Sampling, Interpreting Soil Tests, Adjusting pH, Available Forms of Lime, Available Forms of Sulphur, Applying Fertilizer and Examples of Applications included.

Illustration of soil sampling procedure.

The process of removing honeybees from walls in a house is complex. Most people think they only have to spray and kill the bees. This would be effective if they were yellow jackets or hornets or even bumblebees. Honeybees, however,require a more demanding process.

Planting Hummingbird Gardens, Reducing Summer Pest Problems, Guidelines for Using Color, Longer Life for Cut Flowers, Checklist for Summer, Turfgrass, Pecans, Growing Strawberries and Vegetables to Plant in June, July and August

This guide includes helpful information on herbicides and weed control with detailed suggestions for aquatics, commercial nursery stock, field crops, forestry, fruit crops, home gardens, lawns and many other Louisiana crops. It includes information on different types of herbicide registrations, as well as information on herbicide labels and restricted uses. Also included are sprayer calibration techniques, suggestions for reducing herbicide drift and a guide to proper spray tip selection.

This guide for 2009 contains suggestions for management of the most important or more prevalent diseases of Louisiana plants. It includes information on fungicides, bactericides and nematicides, as well as safety precautions for using them.

This 2009 guide was compiled by LSU AgCenter experts and includes regulations, precautions and suggestions for pest control in Louisiana. Detailed topics include drift of pesticides, hazards of pesticides to beneficial insects and wildlife, phytotoxicity and using beneficial insects to control pest populations. A section on organic gardening also is included.

The Ascension 4-H Advisory Committee serves to address the needs/issues of youth in Ascension Parish. Information about members and meeting minutes are available here.

Interactive, hands-on program designed for K-5th grade youth is a hit with Ascension youth who learn wellness information in a dynamite and exciting way.

Topics covered include: calendar of events, robotics workshop, challenge camp, garden contest, shooting sports, super saturday, achievement day, livestock corral, coin challenge, and recycle project.

The Louisiana 4-H Youth Development program will be viewed in communities statewide as an invaluable and essential source of non-formal education. Salaried and volunteer staff will be recognized for their expertise in creating dynamic and interactive learning experiences.

Topics covered include: calendar of events, SET Club night out, Junior Leader Dance, Super Saturday, 4-H challenge camp, 4-H Shooting Sports, Record Book Competition, Livestock Corral and Coastal Corner.

Four Ascension Parish 4-H'ers participated in the 2009 Food and Fitness camp held at Camp Grant Walker. The girls learned about nutrition, fitness and etiquette and had fun playing games, enjoying Mardi Gras and trying new recipes.

The Ascension Parish 4-H program promotes health-related educational issues including food and nutrition. Through cookery contests, camps and other educational activities the Ascension 4-H program promotes healthy living among children of all ages.

Science touches our lives in many ways -- in medicine, electronics, military, and textiles, to name a few. To help youth understand how science impacts lives, the Ascension Parish 4-H Science, Engineering and Technology Board held a Science Camp on November 22 at the First United Methodist Church of Gonzales.

Topics covered in this Ascension Parish 4-H newsletter include: calendar of events, shooting sports, SET club, livestock show, pet show, hoops and clovers, safety week, junior leader dance, honey bee essay content, wetlands trivia and club meeting schedule.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Brandon Guillory, Calcasieu Parish 4-H’er, took first place in the National 4-H Chicken Barbecue Demonstration contest held here Nov. 19-20.

Selecting a 4-H project is an important first step when becoming a 4-H Club member. Your project should reflect your interests and goals. There are many 4-H projects to choose from. Use this revised Project Selection Guide to help you choose the project that is best for you. If you have difficulty selecting the project you're interested in, see if completing the Pick-A-Project activity at the back of the guide will help.

(Distributed 08/18/08) Louisiana’s oldest living 4-H’er, Elaine Marchand Edmonston, and the Louisiana 4-H organization have some notable things in common.

A monthly fisheries newsletter from the LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Sea Grant.

A monthly newsletter from the LSU AgCenter Nutrition Program.

A quarterly newsletter from the LSU AgCenter's Family and Consumer Sciences Division.