In the past month The Cooperative Extension Program at A&T received some insightful accolades from newspapers in Reidsville, Winston-Salem, Clarksville, TN, and Lexington, KY. The Reidsville Review did a story on the youth development program Mini-Society, “[which] trains community volunteers on how to teach children ages 8-12 entrepreneurial concepts such as citizenship, economics and government. The Winston-Salem Journal’s gardening columnist, David Bare, did a feature-length article on community gardens on July 16, and the work of two members of the A&T field staff, Don Mebane and Stephen Greer, played a prominent role. Up in the Bluegrass State, business page coverage of an award winning Kentucky State curriculum on "The Risk-Assessed Business Planning for Small Producers" noted that Dr. Daniel Lyons, Extension coordinator for the Piedmont District, was also part of the multi-state team that developed the curriculum. And over in Clarksville, TN, a newspaper that bills itself as “Tennessee's oldest newspaper, ran a laudatory article on small farm programs coordinated by Tennessee State University, which acknowledges that one of the most successful of these programs, was “inspired by a similar program Dr. Clyde Chesney brought with him from North Carolina. Now the administrator of the Cooperative Extension Program at Tennessee State, Chesney began his North Carolina Extension career at A&T, and his inspiration for the Small Farm Expos is undoubtedly A&T Extension’s Small Farms Week.
For the complete Reidsville Review article on Mini-Society, visit this link. The article on community gardens in Winston-Salem is here. The risk management award is at http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/business/12153271.htm. The newspaper coverage of Tennessee State’s small farm programs is at http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050723/BUSINESS/507230302/1046.
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