Healthy Living

Foods & Nutrition

If you enjoy cooking or just like good food, the 4-H Foods & Nutrition project could be for you. You will have fun learning the basics of cooking and then advance to gourmet meals. This project focuses not only on food and cooking but also nutrition and using MyPlate to guide eating and meal preparation and planning.

three girls stand at a counter top cutting chicken and preparing ingredients for a meal
an adult leader helps a youth graft a leaf on a potted plant

Gardening & Horticulture

Is your thumb green? Find out how your garden grows in the 4-H Gardening and Horticulture project. You will learn how to plant a garden, dig it, grow it, show it, and eat it.

Health

The 4-H health project will help you explore health and wellness in your personal life as well as your home, club, community, country and world. In this project, you will learn how to assemble a first aid kit and how to treat cuts, stings, bruises and other injuries.

a group of young people gather around a fire truck while a fire fighter explains some of the tools they use
a group of youth at a lake, some in the water a two others in a canoe

Outdoor Recreation

The 4-H Outdoor Recreation project is for those who like hiking and camping! Progress from day hikes, to overnight camping trips and then to extended backpacking expeditions as you hike through the three activity guides and the helper’s guide.

Contact Us

Wyoming 4-H

 

 

College of Agriculture, Life Sciences & Natural Resources

Room 112

1000 E. University Ave

Laramie, WY 82071

Dept. 3354

Email: 4h@uwyo.edu

Phone: (307) 766-5170

 

The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming’s only four-year university in the rarefied air of the top research universities in the United States.

The University of Wyoming is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.

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