The Brown County 4-H Horse Club will hold their first meeting on Monday, September 28th at 6:00 p.m. in the Brown County Extension Office, located at 605 Fisk Avenue in Brownwood.  Any 4-H member with a horse project or kids in 3rd -12th grade who are interested in horses are invited to attend.

For more information, please contact Anna Hernandez at 325-217-2018 or email [email protected].

Pictured above and below are 4-H Horse Club members at a recent workshop.

About 4-H: As the youth development program of the Cooperative Extension System of land-grant universities, 4-H is the nation’s largest youth development organization, empowering six million young people throughout the United States. Cooperative Extension of 1862 and 1890 land-grant universities provide the leadership to engage young people in 4-H in all 3,007 counties of the United States.  The impact of the Cooperative Extension partnership is profound, bringing together National Institute of Food and Agriculture of USDA, land grant universities and county government to resource learning opportunities for youth.

Through America’s 110 land-grant universities and its Cooperative Extension System, 4-H reaches every corner of our nation—from urban neighborhoods to suburban schoolyards to rural farming communities. With a network of more than 6 million youth, 611,800 volunteers, 3,500 professionals, and more than 25 million alumni, 4-H helps shape youth to move our country and the world forward in ways that no other youth organization can.

A recent study, The Positive Development of Youth: Comprehensive Findings from the