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You can help support our local 4-H program by signing up for Kroger Community Rewards. With this program, a small percentage of your purchase will come back to our 4-H Club here in Forsyth County at no cost to you. Click the link below for sign up information! Please note: participating in this program requires you to renew your support each year.

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Upcoming Events

  • Sep 13 Water Bath Canning Class - Apple Relish Rockdale County Extension is holding six canning classes this year! These are hands-on workshops where you will learn the principles of safe food preservation and where to find tested recipes, as well as work in groups to complete all the steps to preserve the featured food. You'll get to taste the finished product and make a jar to take home! Your registration fee covers all class materials, light refreshments, and a jar of the finished product. Thursday evenings: Strawberry Jam: June 27 from 5:30-8pm Tomato Salsa: July 11 from 5:30-8pm Pickled Green Beans: July 25 from 5:30-8pm Friday mornings: Peach Jam: Friday, August 9 from 10:30am-1:00pm Veggie Soup and Freezer Jam: Friday, September 6 from 10:30am-1:30pm Apple Relish: Friday, September 13 from 10:30am-1:00pm Location: 1127 West Avenue SW Conyers, GA 30012
    • Conyers, GA - (35.0 Miles)
  • Sep 14 Forsyth County 4-H Mission Make-It 2024 Youth in 6th-8th grade are invited to join us on Saturday, September 14, for Mission Make-It: Georgia 4-H's Engineering Challenge. We will meet at the office at 7:30AM nd return around 6:30PM. This year's theme is We're Not Pollen Your Leg: Come Bee an Engineer. Cost for the day is $15 and includes transportation, lunch, and materials needed for the day's activities.
    • Cumming, GA
  • Sep 19 Union/Towns Master Naturalist Program Series 2 The Master Naturalist Program covers natural resource topics such as native plants, invasive species, birds, tree ID, watershed management, mushrooms, pollinators and more. This Master Naturalist training is broken up into spring and fall series. To be a certified Master Naturalist, attendance in in both series is required. Classes will be on Thursdays. Cost is $150 for each series.
    • Blairsville, GA - (46.0 Miles)