{"id":430,"date":"2021-07-27T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T22:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=430"},"modified":"2021-07-27T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T22:46:43","slug":"helping-with-research-and-learning-more-about-4-h-in-the-mid-willamette-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2021\/07\/27\/helping-with-research-and-learning-more-about-4-h-in-the-mid-willamette-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping with research and learning more about 4-H in the mid-Willamette Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! Henry Golb again, back for my second blog post of the summer. As a quick refresher,\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019m the intern for Christy Tanner, the\u202fsouth Willamette Valley\u202ffield\u202fcrops\u202fspecialist\u202ffor OSU Extension. I am based\u202fin the\u202fLinn County Extension\u202foffice, and my job is to assist her in\u202fboth\u202fthe field and the office.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n \"Henry\n
Henry Golb uses a a soil probe to pull some soil samples at a local small farm. Photo by Christy Tanner.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a change of pace for me compared to the first few weeks. Lately, I\u2019ve been spending more time at the Linn County Extension office and at the Hyslop Crop Science Field Research Lab in Corvallis (one of OSU\u2019s many research farms). At Hyslop, I\u2019ve been in the lab weighing and tending to grass seed samples that are a part of a vole damage study going on across the Willamette Valley. At the Linn County Extension office, I\u2019ve been working on an article that is to be sent out in GROWING, a publication that goes every other month via the <\/span>Albany Democrat Herald\u00a0newspaper,\u00a0and\u00a0other projects.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite being in the office more,\u00a0I still get to go out and interact with the\u00a0good people of Oregon. Recently I spent a day at the Linn County Fair, where I really got to see Extension shine.\u00a0<\/span>Michele Webster, who manages the\u202fLinn County\u202foffice, wanted me to go to the fair and learn more about the 4-H program because <\/span>before I walked onto the fairgrounds, I knew very little about the 4-H program. I was fortunate enough to have Linn County\u2019s 4-H program coordinator, Abby Johnson, give me the rundown and show me around the fair. By the end of our walk, my mind was blown. I had no idea how big or impactful 4-H is. Learning about what 4-H does and how it positively affects the kids was great, but then actually seeing the kids smile with their hog, lamb, sewing project, etc. was magical. I was so impressed I came back to the fair on my day off just to watch the livestock auctions.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>All in all, I\u2019m enjoying and finding meaning in my work this summer. Life is good.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! Henry Golb again, back for my second blog post of the summer. As a quick refresher,\u00a0I\u2019m the intern for Christy Tanner, the\u202fsouth Willamette Valley\u202ffield\u202fcrops\u202fspecialist\u202ffor OSU Extension. I am based\u202fin the\u202fLinn County Extension\u202foffice, and my job is to assist her in\u202fboth\u202fthe field and the office.\u202f\u00a0 The last couple of weeks have been a bit… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,59],"tags":[12,74,61],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-h","category-ag-and-natural-resources","category-linn-county","tag-4-h","tag-henry-golb","tag-linn-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}