How can community members across Greater Minnesota work collectively to ensure their towns are welcoming to all residents, regardless of their race, ethnicity, language or other characteristics? The new Creating a Welcoming Community toolkit shares ways to meaningfully and inclusively engage with immigrants, refugees and Black, Indigenous and people of color, so that all feel welcome.
For many Somali community members the consumption of halal meat may be seen as an expression of their Muslim identity. Learn about Extension's goat meat project, a critical partnership in St. Cloud.
Extension podcasts have become a routine yet engaging way to connect in Minnesota and beyond.
4-H reaches Minnesota youth in kindergarten through one year past high school. During the COVID-19 era, 4-H educators and volunteers have innovated to keep kids learning and growing.
Learn about how food shelves provide healthier options and a better overall experience when they connect with community partners and build relationships with Extension educators.
Dads are relaxed in online sessions and kids are trying healthy new foods, like a quesadilla so delicious a daughter sneaks off with the entire round.
Extension’s groundwork in food safety for cottage food producers meant speedy response during COVID-19.
Antonio Alba Meraz, an Extension educator with the Latino Financial Literacy Program, has been helping to fill in the gaps for Minnesota’s Latino audiences.
Pigs without a market — and farm family children at home to feel the tension — made 2020 a difficult time.
Even young college students need opportunities to get involved. When the U of M Twin Cities campus became a certified Bee Campus, freshman Lillian Prybil got to represent students on the Bee Campus committee.
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