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North Carolina 4-H Presentation Guidelines: Horticultural Production/Marketing

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Objectives:

  • To teach youth how to properly grow and market vegetables, fruits, nuts, flowers, and ornamental plants.
  • To teach youth to recognize the value of having the proper soils for growing horticultural crops.
  • To allow youth to market horticultural crops as a learning experience for future endeavors.

Eligibility:

Individuals or teams may compete. Each county may enter up to two participants in each age division.

  • 8-10 – 4-H’er must be 8 years old before January 1 of the current year and not have reached their eleventh birthday before January 1 of the current year.
  • 11-13 – 4-H’er must be eleven years old before January 1 of the current year and not have reached their thirteenth birthday before January 1 of the current year.
  • 14-18 – 4-H’er must be fourteen years of age before January 1 of the current year and not reached their nineteenth birthday before January 1 of the current year. Eligibility: Individuals or teams may compete.

Presentation Ideas:

  • Growing tomatoes in the garden
  • Producing healthy vegetable transplants
  • Marketing fruits and vegetables
  • How to run a pick-your-own operation

Resources:

  • Videos from Agricultural Communications Library.

Rules/Regulations: See NC 4-H Presentation Regulations.

Suggestions/Helpful Hints:

  • Horticultural Production: Any practice that has to do with growing vegetables, fruits, nuts, flowers, ornamental plants, and turf and those practices concerned with maintaining, replenishing, or increasing the production capacity of the soil. Terrarium construction and dish garden presentations should be entered into this program.
  • Horticultural Marketing: Operations in preparing vegetables, edible tree nuts, fruits, flowers, and ornamental plants for the market, offering for sale to a buyer, or storage and preparing for and exhibiting these horticultural crops.

Awards:

Specialist Contact:

Elizabeth A Driscoll
Horticultural Science
Extension Assoc
Phone: 919-513-7346
Fax: 919-515-2505
liz_driscoll@ncsu.edu

Page Last Updated: 3 years ago
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