4-H News

Healthy Lifestyles – Highlight

The Healthy Lifestyles Committee has been very busy. They have continued their Cooking Video competitions throughout the pandemic. Each month an ingredient was chosen as the highlighted item for the cooking competition videos. March was peanuts or peanut alternatives, April is strawberries and May will be dairy products. On May 15th 4-H will be hosting […]

South Carolina Healthy Lifestyles Program Highlight

Last summer’s 4-H Kids Cooking Like a Chef Camps provided many positive experiences for 143 youth from 8 counties. In early June, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was determined that face to face camps were not the best option. Therefore, we moved our camps to a virtual platform and found many unexpected benefits. To do this, our […]

Cooking Like a Chef

Cooking Like a Chef Camp participant learns to chop celery.

This year our Cooking Like a Chef camps have been taken virtually. We provided each of the youth a kit with supplies, 10 individual lessons and the Cooking Like a Chef Manual. Each of the lessons had instruction on the skills needed for the lesson, a recipe, and a video to help them prepare this […]