Huron County offers a variety of livestock and life skill clubs.
See the list below for our current club offerings!
If there is a project you would like to be involved in, but is not listed below, please contact us! Additionally, we are always welcoming new volunteers and leaders to our Association. If you would like to become a volunteer, please contact our Volunteer Screening Contact and they are more than willing to answer any questions you may have!
The Belgrave and Brussels Beef Club is an annual club that begins in April and ends in September at their Achievement Day, at Seaforth Fall Fair. This club provides learning around caring for and showing your beef project.
Contact Kim Higgins for more information.
519-357-9398
kh@tnt21.com
The Lucknow 4-H Beef Club is an annual club that begins in April and ends in September at their Achievement Day, at Lucknow Fall Fair. This club provides learning around caring for and showing your beef project.
For more information please contact Holly Holyoake.
519-777-5738
hholyoake@hdc.on.ca
Learn how to care for market hogs, which you will show at Seaforth Fall Fair as part of your achievement program.
Contact Barb Storey for more information if you are interested in joining the club!
519-527-1049
barbara.storey@hotmail.com
Contact Curtis McNeil for more information.
mcneil.curtis@gmail.com
Please contact Joan Finlay if you are interested in joining!
519-528-2620
finn@tnt21.com
Interested in learning about sheep? Come on out to our club! Every year we base the club on what the members would like to learn.
Contact Lauren Bos
226-222-0254
lauren.bos17.7@gmail.com
Learn all about raising goats! Previous years, we built kid treatment boxes, tasted all kinds of goat products, learned how to give needles, toured interesting farms, identified pregnancy by ultrasound, did post mortems, and much more. In 2016, we will learn about breeding and reproduction, and show our project goats at Zurich and Seaforth Fairs. We have a building project idea, and hope to arrange a tour day and goat feast by the end of the club. Leading the club in the South Huron area; meat goat producer, Amy Vingerhoeds and Angela Gerretsen, practicing vet in the Mitchell and Stratford area. Please contact Amy for more information about the club. New members are always welcome!
Please contact Amy for more information about the club. New members are always welcome!
avingerhoeds@quadro.net
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The Belgrave Vet Club is based out of the Northern Huron County. We focus both large and small animals, covering a variety of topics from muscles to circulation, and respiratory to nervous system. Our club is hands-on as well as enjoys touring various farms and businesses. Past animals we have learned about include: cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, rabbits, and snakes. Whether you want to be a vet in large or small animals, vet tech, farmer, or have interest in the animal sciences field, this club is for you.
Please contact Shannon Bieman if interested!
519-357-2647
sbieman@secan.com
The Wawanosh Life Skills Club helps to develop different aspects of healthy living for our members. Projects have promoted awareness of Ontario products for cooking and baking, of local facilities for both indoor and outdoor active activities and sports, of quilting and sewing resources, of volunteer gardening venues and of first aide resources. Generally, we organize two to three projects per year, running spring, summer and fall. Past projects have included Bread Making, Breakfast Club, Pizza, Holiday Traditions, Preserves, Gardening, Hiking, Line Dancing, Winter and Summer Sports, Quilting, and Sewing. We are based out of Auburn but also may have meetings or activities around Wingham.
Please contact Eileen George if you are interested in joining!
519-357-3451
eiha.george@gmail.com
The Grey Township 4-H Club is based out of the Walton area. In the past we have tackled many different projects from Cooking to Judging to photography, and outdoor sports to small engines. We choose our projects from what our members are interested in and what the leaders skills are. We like to keep our groups small so members can take full advantage of the 4-H Motto “Learn To Do By Doing”.
For more information about our group, please contact:
Monique Baan
519-887-6998
dmbaan@tcc.on.ca
The Hensall Life Skills Club works on balancing indoor and outdoor activities. We have developed our own projects to meet the interests of our club members such as the Grown Huron! Based out of Hensall, but often touring the county, we endeavor to really live the 4-H motto of ‘Learn To Do By Doing’ and offer our members new experiences. We strongly encourage our members to take advantage of county and provincial opportunities! Past projects have included Heritage, Rug Hooking, Hiking, Pizza, Line Dancing, Vegetarian Cooking, Winter and Summer Sports Sampler, Working with Wool, and Barn Quilts.
For more information contact Mary Lynn MacDonald
519-262-3123
projects@hay.net
Contact Darcey Garniss
howick4h@gmail.com