The 2025 Fulton County 4-H Handbook is now available! The purpose of this publication is to support members, volunteers and families in their membership experience, including expectations, deadlines, and project completion guidelines.
The handbook can be found on the Member Resources page.
Dr. Timothy McDermott currently serves as an Assistant Professor for Agriculture & Natural Resources in Franklin County, Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio State University in 1996, spent time in a private veterinary practice Franklin County for more than 20 years.
Please leave your project animal at home as this is an educational presentation.
This will satisfy Livestock Quality Assurance if showing poultry in 2025 at the Fulton County Jr. Fair.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
6:00pm-8:00pm
The Emporium at 130 | 130 E Clinton St, Napoleon, OH 43545
Register for this event at https://go.osu.edu/2025nwopoultryclinic.
Questions? Contact Morgan Parcher at 419-592-0806 or parcher.6@osu.edu.
This March, we’re asking you to give up the green to help support our programs here at camp by joining the 4-H Camp Palmer Kindling Club. By becoming a monthly giver, you can make a lasting impact—ensuring more youth have the opportunity to experience the magic of camp, build lifelong skills, and create unforgettable memories. Any amount is appreciated, but monthly donors who sign up to donate $10 or more per month will receive a Kindling t-shirt after their third month of membership.
Every dollar counts and your ongoing support helps fund exciting camp activities and keep our programs thriving.
PLUS, every Wednesday in March, we’ll be sharing a #WishlistWednesday video featuring fun ways you can support camp beyond monetary donations.
Ready to give up the green? Sign up today at camppalmer.org/give!
C. Krueger’s is generously supporting Ohio 4-H this year with a custom cookie box! 15% of the proceeds from every cookie box purchased from the Ohio 4-H Foundation Gift Collection will come back to support Ohio 4-H programming.
Visit https://ckruegers.com/pages/ohio-4h to purchase your cookies today!
An update on this year’s EquiSTEP (Equine Safety, Training, and Education Program).
EquiSTEP is an annual statewide requirement for all youth participating in Ohio 4-H Horse Program activities and/or enrolled in a 4-H horse project. EquiSTEP replaces the statewide requirement of reading the Horses, Safety, and You (191R) resource and viewing the Every Time, Every Ride and Horses, Kids, and Ethics videos for youth and their families who are new to the 4-H horse program.
The EquiSTEP curriculum follows the 4’Hs and focuses on head (helmet safety), hands (equine safety & handling), health (equine health & nutrition), and heart (sportsmanship) and is designed to rotate topics every year.
EquiSTEP is designed to be completed online by each participant individually through Scarlet Canvas. Fulton County youth must complete EquiSTEP no later than May 15, 2025.
Here is the link to enroll in/access this year’s EquiSTEP: https://cfaesosu.catalog.instructure.com/courses/equistep-2025 (This link is also available at the bottom of the home page for horse.osu.edu.)
To complete EquiSTEP individually, a participant must enroll using their own unique email address. (Participants should not use their school email addresses as the course enrollment invitation will be blocked by the school’s email system.) Participants must view all five videos (introduction and STEPS 1-4) which last approximately one hour in total. Once the videos are completed, participants will be able to access the 10-question quiz. Participants must complete the quiz associated with the training and achieve a minimum score of 7 (out of 10) in order to pass the training. Once the quiz is successfully completed, participants will need to complete the course survey to trigger a certificate of completion. The certificate will be emailed to the participant’s email address as well as their county’s 4-H email address. The participant must select their correct county to trigger the email to the correct email address and they must click on the submit button at the end of the survey to trigger the email.
Ohio 4-H Spark EXPO is back! From June 11-14, 2025, students who have completed 8th or 9th grade by the end of the 2024-2025 school year are invited to explore exciting career pathways, engage in hands-on learning experiences, and discover new passions at The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. This immersive experience connects youth with industry professionals, faculty, and peers to spark their interests and inspire future career goals.
Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn, grow, and explore!
Learn more: go.osu.edu/4hsparkexpo
Travis West currently serves as the
OSU Assistant Professor for 4-H
Youth Development in Vinton
County, Ohio. He is will-versed in
showing and providing exceptional
care for rabbit projeects.
Please leave your project animal at
home as this is an educational
presentation.
Date: Saturday, April 26
Time: 10am-12pm
Location: Crossroads Church (Napoleon)
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Join your Northwest Ohio 4-H Educators to offer our “New to Showing Livestock” families an opportunity to educate you on best practices from purchasing your animal, to completing your project, exhibiting at your county fair, and securing buyers to fulfill your market exhibition.
Our presentation will consist of a review of many shared aspects of Livestock projects.The opportunity to as county-specific questions will be permistted at the conclusion of the presentation.
For more information, visit https://u.osu.edu/henry4h/quality-assurance/.
DATE
Thursday April 10, 2025
TIME
6:30-8:00 p.m.
HELD VIA ZOOM
Be sure to register using the link below.
REGISTRATION LINK
https://go.osu.edu/beginnersguide2livestock
Be sure to join us for Ohio 4-H Week – March 2-8, 2025!
Ohio 4-H encourages us to have a 4-H Spirit Week to share the 4- H Spirit!
