Our Family and Community Health team partners in communities to promote healthy nutrition, food safety and security, physical activity, behavioral health and well-being, emergency preparedness, community resilience, and more.
4-H empowers young people with hands-on learning experiences to help them grow and thrive. By creating a safe and welcoming environment, young people develop the skills needed to make a positive impact on the world around them.
Our agents and specialists share knowledge about the latest techniques in natural resource management through educational programs and materials. We work with forest owners, foresters and other natural resource managers, educators ...
The home garden and landscape program area provides information for backyard gardeners and green industry professionals including regional specific information for our counties.
Open Campus provides local access to education through community-based partnerships and unique programming, meeting needs of the Oregon communities we serve.
We connect the cafeteria, classroom and community so kids, farmers, and communities thrive. OSU’s research-backed farm to school activities improve economic opportunities, public health, academic achievement, youth development and ecoliteracy in every county in Oregon.
Crook County
Programs offered
Central Oregon Master Gardeners: A program that educates Oregonians about the art and science of growing and caring for plants. This program also facilitates the training of a highly educated group of volunteers. These volunteers extend sustainable gardening information to their communities through education and outreach programs.
Central Oregon Small Farms: The Small Farms/Small Acreage program in Central Oregon provides research-based educational programming and resources to help commercial and non-commercial small farm entrepreneurs and small acreage landowners achieve their goals.
Crook County 4-H: 4-H empowers young people with hands-on learning experiences to help them grow and thrive. By creating a safe and welcoming environment, young people develop the skills needed to make a positive impact on the world around them.
Home Food Safety and Preservation Program: OSU Extension Family and Community Health ensures Oregonians have access to the most reliable information available on safe food handling at home. We offer food safety and preservation resources and classes, including our Master Food Preserver program.
Master Woodland Manager: The Master Woodland Manager training is a master's level course for landowners who are interested in an intensive forest management training and sharing the knowledge gained through this training with people in their local communities. Graduates of the program have been serving Oregon for 40 years.
Open Campus: OSU Open Campus provides local access to learning to address the unique educational needs of Oregon’s communities. Through a statewide partnership network, Open Campus delivers education to underserved and place-bound Oregonians.
Oregon Environmental Literacy Program: The Oregon Environmental Literacy Program supports K-12 teachers in collaboration with non-formal educators to foster environmental literacy by engaging students in activities and experiences that increase their awareness, understanding and knowledge of the environment and their relationship to it.
Oregon Forest Pest Detector: Oregon Forest Pest Detectors volunteer to help prevent the damaging impacts of invasive forest pests by monitoring for and reporting potential infestations. Volunteers are are important in early detection and rapid response of control efforts.
Oregon Natural Resources Education Program: The Oregon Natural Resources Education Program has been a leader in providing professional development programs for K–16 educators in understanding Oregon’s forests, wildlife and ecosystems.
Outdoor School: OSU Extension works in collaboration with schools, partners and communities to administer funds to support and grow the statewide Outdoor School program for Oregon’s 5th and 6th grade students.
