December 18, 2023
EFNEP Excellence Award for Adult Program Wanda Vandroff, Marion CountyJazmin Myer, Sumter County FNEP Excellence Award for Youth Program Patti Chapman, Beaufort CountyBrandi Anderson, McCormick County EFNEP NE of the Year Award Catina Williams, Chesterfield County Star Performer Award Stacy Phillips, Sandhill REC Excellence in Peer Mentoring Wanda Vandroff, Marion CountyMary Morgan, Georgetown CountyDiana Richardson, Lexington CountyKayla […]
June 15, 2023
The Clemson Agricultural Safety Program and Agricultural Sciences Research and Fabrication Lab worked together to design and construct a Grain Entrapment Simulator for statewide trainings. With only a few of these units in the country, this is a vital resource for South Carolina. The simulator allows for an individual to be safely entrapped in grain. […]
June 14, 2021
Silvopasture is an intentional, intensive, integrated, and interactive system that utilizes timberland for grazing within a managed rotational grazing system. This five-part webinar series included sessions on selection of forages and forage establishment, livestock selection and management, fencing, predator management, and how the timber component is initiated through stand establishment or by thinning an existing […]
June 14, 2021
On May 13, 2021, a free webinar was held to profile Clemson’s recent research on shellfish mariculture consumer preferences and economic impacts in South Carolina. Dr. Marzieh Motallebi organized the webinar with Clemson’s Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science and Steve Richards with Clemson Extension Agribusiness Team’s Center for Cooperative and […]
May 17, 2021
Over the past ten years, Alta Mae Marvin and other agents with the Colleton County Clemson Extension Office have been working with churches in rural and underserved areas of the county to provide locally grown fruits and vegetables. As part of efforts to fight the increasing health risk of obesity, a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) […]
May 17, 2021
The Agricultural Education Program Team has been working with Clemson University Professor Dr. Jim Frederick, with the Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, to create a mini-demonstration teaching opportunity at a Middle School in Darlington County. Utilizing space on the grounds of the Darlington Middle School, Dr. Frederick and his Clemson Extension collaborators have worked with […]
April 12, 2021
Ladies Engaged in Agriculture Development (LEAD) hosted a spring webinar discussing warm-season forages and establishment on February 23, 2021. This is the first of what we hope becomes a short series for women in agriculture through the state; thirty-eight ladies signed up and attended this program virtually. Guest speaker, Lee Van Vlake, spoke to the […]
April 12, 2021
The Rural Health and Nutrition Extension Program Team, in collaboration with Clemson University’s College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences, and Prisma Health received a one-year, $100,000 grant from The American Diabetes Association to deliver one hour webinars about the link between Diabetes and Heart Disease. The rationale for delivering this program through the Rural […]
March 15, 2021
Mars Madness Continues… This past year has been quite an adventure with South Carolina 4-H’s Journey to Mars and National 4-H’s Mars Base Camp. This summer, we watched the Mars Perseverance Rover take off from the same launchpad that sent Apollo 11 to the moon. The rover was aptly named by students in Virginia that […]
February 15, 2021
In 2020, Clemson Extension’s Carolina Clear program launched its newest mass media campaign focused on the proper management and disposal of fats, oil, and grease (FOG). The multi-part mass media campaign included a billboard series and television commercial. In the fall of 2020, there were twenty-two copies of the billboard installed in eleven Counties around […]
