Project Summary

Cloverbud: (2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018)

Houseplants: (2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023)

Clothing: (2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023)

Backpacking: (2022-2023)

4-H Activity Story

Write one or more paragraphs, that explains the following about your 4-H activities, club meetings, camps, workshops, county events, trips, etc. this year: • What you accomplished, your roles, and what experiences you had • What learned about yourself and others; tell how you “grew” • What you would you change next time • How the experience was difficult, surprising, rewarding or new • What you told others about the experience(s) and if and why you would participate again 

I had a lot of fun in 4-H this year!  I was a member of the Four Leaf Clover 4-H Club.  We had meetings every month.  As the Club Secretary, I took roll call and minutes at every meeting.  Sometimes I ran the meetings when the President and Vice President were gone.  My favorite part of the meetings were when the little kids ran the beginning activities.  It was fun to see them plan things.  As a club we also did many activities.  We helped plant the local community garden and we made valentines for the nursing home.  The club picnic and swimming party were also fun.

This year I had the most fun leading a statewide Cloverbud class.  I taught 30 K-2nd graders how to make a calming jar and how to do yoga moves to the 4-H pledge.  It was hard and fun at the same time to get them to do something through the computer.  I really learned a lot doing this.  I would love to teach more virtual classes and I think it is a good experience for others to teach others how to do something.  I think if people like to do something, they should share that with others either in person or virtually.  I would encourage them to do that.

This year 4-H was a lot of fun.  I can't wait for next year.

Member Project Evaluation - House Plants

One of the projects I did this year was the house plants project.  I learned that It is hard to keep African Violets alive.  I took a plant class to learn about growing and caring for African Violets.  First, it started out great.  I watered them, put them in their humidity dome.  They were looking good.  Then one of them started to die.  The leaves turned brown and the crown started to die and the outside was starting to die.  So, we asked Anne (the plant class leader) how to fix it.  She suggested cinnamon on the leaves and another spray.  I also changed the dirt.  You can see the pictures on the next few pages to read about the whole journey of my plant.

I also learned how to propagate plants.  I grew tradescantia plants and experimented with other plants.  I took a succulent garden to the fair, a dish garden (with my African Violet because you can only enter African Violets in the fair if they are flowering), and my wandering Jew.  I also took a poster about my slowly deceasing plant.  At the fair I got 3 blues and a red (the dish garden got a red because they were upset it didn’t have a flower--which is why I entered it as a dish garden, but the judge thought it should flower.

I learned a lot this year and next year I hope to learn about succulents and to keep my plants alive.

Project Meetings/Activities

I attended 8 Project meetings via zoom and a plant splitting hands on session in Chetek.

Exhibits (shown at the Barron County Fair):

Dish Garden, Tradescantia Plants, Poster, Succulent Garden

Financials

Equipment, Tools or Appliances Used

Scissors, box cutter, toothpicks, sticks, pots, dirt, cups

Project Expense (Items purchased this 4-H year)

African Violets:

Peat Moss ($5.00)

Vermiculite ($5.00)

Perlite ($5.00)

Water Bottles ($6.00)

Distilled Water ($3.00)

Posterboard ($1.00)

Total: $20.00

Dish Garden: Rocks/Gems: $2.00

Succulent Garden: Bowl $2.00

Total Cost: $24.00

Labor Record:

Estimated time spent repotting and creating dish gardens: 4.5 hours

Income: $18.00

Estimated Value of project: I think I could sell my African Violets for a few dollars and I have 10 of them.  If I sold all 10 at $3.  I would have $30 plus the $18 from the fair premiums.  That's $48 minus $24 for the expenses.  The $24 I made is not worth the time and effort it took to problem solve and keep the plants alive.  However I did learn a lot about propagating plants.

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It was a great year to be in 4-H!