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Current Issue: Volume 63, Number 2 (2025)
Feature Articles
Assessing One-Year Health Impacts from Wildfires in Rural Communities: Roles for Extension in Promoting Wildfire Preparedness and Recovery
Marc T. Braverman, Sandi Cleveland Phibbs, Emily Jane Davis, Amanda Rau, and Elijah Penner
Enhancing Extension Professionals’ Career Trajectory: Evaluating the Western Extension Leadership Development (WELD) Program
Andree Walker Bravo, Lendel K. Narine, Jeremy Elliott-Engel, Elizabeth Sparks, and Wesley Alford
"Adults Taking Over": Lessons from a Case Study of Food Security Events in Positive Youth Development Organizations
Rebecca Mott and Tanner Adkins
Kid Eats App: Supporting Parents and Children Cooking Together
Amy S. Muise, Gabrielle A. Longo, Pamela N. Martinez, Umekia R. Taylor, Linda E. Torv, and Barbara A. Chamberlin
Cannabis Impacts on Native Lands: On the Need for Inclusion of Native Perspectives in Extension Work
Jeremy Sorgen, Seth LaRosa, Jennifer Sowerwine, Van Butsic, Peter Nelson, Melanie McCavour, Shasta Gaughen, and Anna Starkey
Reaching Tomorrow’s Extension Customer: A Food and Health Needs Assessment
Morgan Szczepaniak, Sarah L. Francis, Ruth Litchfield, Ulrike Genschel, Shannon Coleman, and Anirudh Naig
Research in Brief
Caminos*: An Ethnographic Study of Latino and Ally Leaders Serving Rural Latino Communities Before and During the Pandemic
Ruben Viramontez Anguiano, Melissa Martinez, Jorge Chavez, and Sarah M. Harrison
Evaluation of The Development of Critical Life Skills as A Result of Participating in Texas Youth Horse Judging Programs
Ashley N. Dibbs, Jennifer Zoller, Chelsie Huseman, and Scott Cummings
Climate resilience for organic vegetable growers in the Midwest: Views, needs, and priorities of technical service providers
Natalie Hoidal, Greta Gramig, James DeDecker, Nicholas Frillman, Katie Black, Sarah Hayward, and Rue Genger
Parental Experience in 4-H and its Effect on Youth Reenrollment
JoLynn Miller, Kendra Lewis, Jeannette Rea Keywood, Tim Ewers, Kali Trzesniewski, and Sarah Hensley
Engaging Generation Z: Exploring Volunteering Preferences and Influential Factors for 4-H Programming
Gemma Miner, Roshan Nayak, Cheryl Butterfield, Donna Schwarting, and Stacey MacArthur
Ideas at Work
Market Days for Older Adults: Addressing Healthy Aging among a High-Risk Population at the Downtown Farmers’ Market
Allyson Brothers, India Luxton, Cheryl Noble, Sue Schneider, Alison O'Connor, and Yuqin Jiao
Annie’s Project: Farming in Cities and the Urban Fringe
Robin G. Brumfield, Deborah L. Greenwood, Madeline Flahive Di Nardo, A.J. Both, Joseph R. Heckman, Nicholas Polanin, Ashaki Rouff, Amy Rowe, Richard VanVranken, Surendran Arumugam, and Ramu Govindasamy
Exploring Extension Agents' Understandings of Local and Resilient Food Systems
Hannah Dankbar and Brooke Matusko
Evergreen Products Training Yields Additional Income Results
James M. DelPrince, Patricia R. Knight, Jeff Wilson, Anthony Bowden, Lauren C. Nickels, and Laura H. Downey
Faculty Roles and Responsibilities Supporting Extension Health Initiatives: Suggestions to Maximize Campus-Field Partnerships
Christine A. Fruhauf, Maria Delgado, and Sue Schneider
Strategies to Overcome the Unique Challenges Faced in Conducting Focus Groups in Extension
Vikram Koundinya, Amulya Rao, Cristina Chiarella, Deepa Srivastava, Mary Holz-Clause, Teresa Spaeth, Eleanor Haworth, Kit Alviz, LaJoy Spears, Rebecca Witinok-Huber, Natalia Pinzón, and Yulia Lamoureaux
Nature for New Minnesotans: A Minnesota Master Naturalist program connecting adult English language learners to the outdoors
Lucas Fitchen Rapisarda and Britt M. Forsberg
Expanding Extension Involvement Through an Undergraduate Life Skills Course
Stacey F. Stearns and Aditi Rao
Gardening Through The Pages: Making A State-Specific Catalog With Community Science Data
Stephen Stresow, Stephen Reiners, and Ashley Miller Helmholdt
Tools of the Trade
From Data to Action: An Adaptable Crosstabs Template for Participatory Survey Data Analysis
Natalia Pinzon, Vikram Koundinya, William O'R Dowling, and Ryan Galt