Michele Gagne -

GSDLN Sites Site 1 - UNHCE - Grafton County, Confirmed Site 2 - Merrimack County; Confirmed Site 3 - Rockingham, Confirmed Site 4 - Taylor Hall

Focus on Season Extension, Farm Planning, and Disease Management

9:30am           Registration

10:00am          Season Extension Structures: The Basics
                            Becky Sideman, UNH Cooperative Extension

10:30am          Year-Round Income through Season Extension & Winter High Tunnel                                        Production
                            Paul and Sandy Arnold, Pleasant Valley Farm, Argyle NY

11:30am           Crop and Revenue Insurance for Organic Growers
                            Mike Sciabarrasi, UNH Cooperative Extension

12:15pm           Lunch

1:00pm             Profitable Marketing through Simple Record-Keeping and Crop                                                     Evaluations
                            Paul and Sandy Arnold, Pleasant Valley Farm, Argyle NY

1:45pm           Finding Funding: Opportunities for Farmers with SARE, NRCS and FSA
                            Bill Lord, UNH Cooperative Extension
                            Sherry Harris, Farm Service Agency
                            Brandon Smith, NRCS

2:15pm            A Challenging Year: Organic Management of Late Blight & Other Diseases
                            Cheryl Smith, UNH Cooperative Extension

3:15pm            Wrap Up

For additional information view the brochure.

On-line registration is available at:

Wednesdays: January 6, 13, 20, 27, February 3, 10, 17, March 3, 10, 17 from 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM. Learn the tricks of the culinary trade as we prepare healthy meals from around the world, make bread, and visit a cooking school. Grab your passports and prepare your taste buds for a delicious adventure! Open to children in grades 5 and up.

Calling All Parents - You Deserve A Break

Come to the Sullivan County STRENGTHENING families PROGRAM

For Parents and Youth 10 - 14

• Enjoy 7 Free Nights out on us!
• You and your 10-14 year old learn how to get along, enjoy your family and have fun together.
• Success Guaranteed!  Research says it really works!!  Come and try it out for a week or two.
• Funding to Sullivan County is provided by NH DHHS, Division of Public Health Services.  Bureau of Prevention Services, ATODP.

This is a free seven-week program, designed for parents and children ages 10 to 14, to increase communication between pre-teens and their parents and to keep pre-teens away from drugs and alcohol.

Pizza will be served for dinner in the first half-hour, followed by the program.  Weekly door prizes will be supplemented by a bonus to families participating in the program.  Programs will be held in:

Wednesdays, Jan 20, 27 Feb 3, 10, 24 and March 3, 10, 2010

Dinner from 5:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Program from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Location:  Newport Middle High School

245 North Main Street

Newport, NH

To register or for more information call:

Gail Kennedy @ 863-9200,

or email: gail.kennedy@unh.edu

Registration is limited so sign up today! 

First come, first served.

Weekly Door Prize Drawing for a Free $25 gift card.

How to Make Your own Maple Syrup:

Location: First Floor Conference Room. These sessions are held weekly on Wednesdays, and are open 4-H members of all ages and abilities. They are designed to help participants become familar with the State Horse Quiz Bowl on January 30, and the State Hippology Contest on April 10. The Rockingham County Teams for these two events will be selected from the youth who attend these coaching sessions. All youth are invited to attend! You do not need to own a horse to participate!!!!!!!

Claudia Boozer-Blasco will be interviewed regarding the Just in Time Parenting Resource

• Finding a parenting style that fits with your values
• Balancing limits and nurturing
• Understanding childrens' growth and development and age appropriate expectation
• Dealing with stress, anger and conflict
• Discipline strategies that teach
• Dealing with misbehavior

Presented by: Sue Cagle

Attendance certificates and light refreshments are included in this series.

Deadline for signups for Presentation Day. Sign up through your club organization leader.

Don't miss the 2010 GSD/SAF Annual Meeting held at the Attitash Grand Summit Hotel and Conference Center. Some of the items that will be covered are: NH Forestry Update, State Assessment, A review of the publication Good Forestry in the Granite State, which is being revised.

There will be a business meeting followed by a lunch and awards.

Do you like to cook? Enjoy tasting other people's favorite recipes? Want to learn more about nutrition? Hope to meet other 4-H'ers in Rockingham County? Then be sure to come to our Favorite Foods Festival, the annual 4-H food and nutrition showcase event!

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Get R.E.A.L Workshops

Time:  9:00 AM to Noon

Location: Charlestown Middle School

4-H and non-4-H member youth are invited to a shooting sports program that will begin on Saturday January 30 with an "Introduction to Shooting Sports Workshop" and then run every other Saturday after that until May. The program takes place at the Chester Rod and Gun Club at 99 Rod and Gun Club Road, Chester, NH, 03036.

A proper introduction to the shooting sports can set the stage for a lifetime of safe shooting enjoyment. Youngsters age 8 to 18 who are interested in learning more about the 4-H shooting sports program are invited to a free workshop on Saturday January 30 at the Chester Rod and Gun Club. We'll meet from 8:30 AM until 11:30 AM, and participants will get a chance to shoot rifles and archery with help from our trained instructors. Of course, safety and responsibility will be the chief emphasis of the day.

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The meeting will be held at Coe-Brown Academy on Route 4 in Northwood and registration begins at 8:30 AM.  After a brief business meeting and the presentation of awards, Vince Walsh, a wildlife tracker and natural history expert, will be this year's guest speaker. He will present a morning slide program of the mammals that inhabit our northern woods and will have on-hand mounted specimens, skulls, skins, scats and plaster casts of tracks from his extensive collection. Vince will then help lead our afternoon trip to nearby conservation land as we search for animal sign.

After a potluck lunch that will be provided, please plan to join us for a moderately strenuous walk on nearby conservation land. Weather permitting, we will snow shoe or hike. The Annual Meeting will also feature the raffle of many donated items. Bear-Paw welcomes donations from artists, writers, and craftspeople for this fundraising effort.

Snowshoe hills where Shagbark Hickory thrives in western Westmoreland with views of Vermont's Green Mountains and more. For this moderately strenuous outing meet our leader and consulting forester Swift Corwin at 10 a.m. at the northbound rest area on Route 12 in Walpole. Back about 2 p.m.

Hikes go regardless of weather or snow depth. Dress for the weather. Bring a lunch for programs lasting through noon.

This easy 1½-mile circumnavigation of a pristine 100-acre lake will skirt newly protected and newly acquired shore land. Skiing starts at 10 am. Be sure to bring water.

Hikes go regardless of weather or snow depth. Dress for the weather. Bring a lunch for programs lasting through noon.