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Campers Grow
‘Wild’ Over Agriculture
NAZARETH (Northampton
Co.) Fifty youth from North
ampton County got to experience
agriculture first hand during the
4-H Ag Day Camp recently.
The Northampton County 4-H
program sponsored two three
day 4-H Agriculture Day Camps.
Children ages 7-11 years old had
the chance to learn about fruits
and vegetables, weather, seeds,
bugs, corn, farming in the past,
and animals. While at camp
campers made their own rain
maker, painted a pot, and then
planted a seed. Each camper was
able to take these home in order
to watch their flowers grow!
Campers were wild over the new
born calf, newborn piglets, and
bottle feeding baby goats.
Campers got the chance to
make some of their own snacks
One 4-H Day Camper takes one last jump into the soft
bed of hay before heading home for the day.
4-H Ag Day Campers get a mini-demonstration on how
farmers plow their fields.
including fruit and yogurt par
faits, corn bread, and butter.
After learning about the parts of
a corn plant and how it grows, it
was only fitting to make a snack
from corn and eat it.
Campers even got the chance
to milk a goat, then taste some of
the cooled milk.
It was a wild experience for
campers!
After forking hay, shelling
corn kernels from the cob, and
making com starch clay, camp
concluded with a farm tour.
Campers visited four 4-H family
farms to learn about pigs, pota
toes, goats, beef cows, chickens,
and sheep. It was a great learning
experience for all the campers to
share about how the food they
eat is raised.
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Korner.
4-H Ag Day Campers take a short pause during their busy day of learning where their
food comes from.
4-H’ers Attend Camp Shehaqua
About 25 4-H members, four 4-H counselors, and three 4-H volunteers attended
Camp Shehaqua in Hickory Run State Park July 7-11.
SHEHAQUA (Northampton Co.)
One of the amazing events for
4-H’ers this summer was 4-H
camp at Camp Shehaqua in the
Poconos. Each year, Northamp
ton County 4-H members may
spend a week at Hickory Run
State Park in the Poconos. The
4-H camp is used by 30 county
4-H programs.
This year, Northampton
County had 25 campers and four
counselors at Camp Shehaqua.
Throughout the week members
had the chance to experience na
ture first hand by seeing deer,
squirrels, birds, and thunder
storms. Camping with North
ampton County 4-H’ers also are
members from Lehigh, Schuyl
kill, and Carbon Counties.
4-H campers select a morning
workshop during which they
complete a 4-H project. The
morning workshops that campers shoot air rifles, or explore nature
could choose from include Le- through art. Two evenings of the
napes: First Citizens; How Sweet week camp fires were held. One
it is: Honey bees; What a Nui- eveni members were visited „
sance: Wildlife; or The Big Dnp: M
During the afternoons, mem- the First Citizens ‘ Frank Little
bers hiked to the lake, are chal- tau ght members about Na
lenged by the low-ropes course, five American Culture through
play a sport, learn a line dance, traditional song and dance.
4-H members gather for an afternoon filled with games.