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  • For 4-H, a Campaign to Reach Beyond Corn Fields and Into Cities

    T. Rees Shapiro, The Washington Post|Apr 14, 2016

    For more than a century, boys and girls with an abiding curiosity about harvesting corn and raising cattle found refuge in their local 4-H Club, which developed deep roots in America's farming communities that make up the fruited plains between the country's coastal population centers. But a new effort, slated to begin this month, is seeking to broaden the group's traditional scope beyond agriculture, aiming to push it into the 21st century by forging more of a connection with the nation's...