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"4-H helped me learn how to adapt and how to see things through to the end.”

- JESSICA BAKER
former Stone County 4-H’er
"When you connect with Extension, you will get what you need.”

- Stanley Wise
owner of Wise Family Farms in Pontotoc County
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- Cynthia Slaughter Melton
Mississippi Homemaker Volunteers member in Scott County
"I discovered early on that 4-H youth development was my calling.”

- Larry Alexander
2024 National 4-H Hall of Fame
"I just want the gardens to be as pretty as they can be.”

- Jane Dunlap
Bolivar County Master Gardener

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Mississippi State University Director Dr. Angus Catchot, left, visits with Mississippi 4-H Foundation member Gale Martin, MSU Division of Agriculture, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine Vice President Dr. Keith Coble, and Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation President Mike McCormick.

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