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Purdue Extension outlines spring–fall programs including youth, agriculture and wellness events
Summary
Purdue Extension staff updated commissioners on recent and upcoming programs in Greene County: educational workshops on soil health, beekeeping, elderberries, youth Ag Day attendance and 4-H activities, a master-naturalist course, mushroom production and other community wellness programs funded partly by a local health-department grant.
Purdue Extension staff provided the Greene County Board of Commissioners an overview of recent outreach and a calendar of upcoming programs during the May 9 meeting.
Julie Rush introduced Sean Huss, the county Ag and Natural Resources educator, who described programs held since December — including sustainable meat rabbit production, wildlife-habitat workshops, soil-health sessions, medicinal-plant classes and an introduction to beekeeping — and noted attendance figures (examples: 15 attendees for the rabbit program; 48 for the medicinal-plant session). He also described upcoming offerings: an Indiana Master Naturalist eight-session course, a mushroom-production workshop, Purdue on the Farm crop scouting (paid by the Indiana Corn and Soybean Association and free to county landowners), 4-H tag days for goats, sheep and swine, a pasture walk, and a homesteading conference in October.
Julie Rush (Purdue Extension) and colleagues also described community wellness programming, including a "get fit" series with a yoga instructor supported by a grant from the Greene County Health Department; the program served mostly older adults and provided incentives funded by the grant. Extension staff said outreach is promoted primarily via the Purdue Extension Greene County Facebook page, a 4-H newsletter to enrolled participants, local social media groups and some radio outlets; staff noted outreach is harder without a reliable local newspaper.
Commissioners thanked Extension staff and encouraged continued partnership; no county action or funding decision was made at the meeting.
