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More information will be added as it becomes available toward the new school year. For returning members, emails will be sent out as information is available also.
President: Chelsea, Bennet Volunteer Vice President: EJ Arceneaux , Volunteer
The Louisiana 4-H Livestock Project provides youth with hands-on learning experiences that build leadership, citizenship, responsibility, and valuable life skills. Through livestock projects, members gain knowledge of animal science and production agriculture while developing independence, work ethic, and confidence. Louisiana 4-H livestock opportunities include rabbits, poultry, sheep, swine, dairy cattle, beef cattle, and goats.
In West Feliciana Parish, youth and families also have the opportunity to participate in the Feliciana Livestock Club, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works in partnership with West Feliciana Parish 4-H. While membership in Feliciana Livestock Club is not required to show livestock through 4-H, it offers a wonderful way to connect with other livestock families and become more involved in the local livestock community.
Feliciana Livestock Club provides members with many benefits, including show prizes, club jackets, scholarship opportunities, and opportunities for clinics and guest speakers. Together, West Feliciana Parish 4-H and Feliciana Livestock Club help youth develop skills, friendships, and experiences that last a lifetime.
Club Leaders: Shannon Norris, Volunteer & Katlin Gordon, 4-H Agent
A 4-H rabbit project can be a fun, engaging, rewarding experience. This project can be successful in urban or rural areas and is ideal for those with limited space. Rabbits can be raised for pleasure or profit. You can have them as pets, show them, or raise them for their meat, fur, or fertilizer. Many 4-H members and adults enjoy showing their rabbits at fairs and rabbit shows. In today’s world, urbanization and less space are becoming more commonplace. The rabbit project gives youth a way to become involved in the livestock project with limited money and space. This rabbit project encompasses all the same things other livestock projects do by allowing youth in Louisiana to learn leadership, citizenship, and life skills through hands-on-learning opportunities. Rabbit project participants gain independence, responsibility, and knowledge of the production of agriculture and sciences through livestock projects.
Club Leaders: Dr. Annie Graves, Volunteer & Katlin Gordon, 4-H Agent
The purpose of the 4-H Horse Project is to enable youth to develop life skills and develop knowledge about horses and the horse industry. Horse project life skills can include leadership, initiative, self-reliance, sportsmanship, responsibility, and compassion for animals and people. You do not have to own a horse to join The Horse Club. All who love horses are welcome. If you would like to join the horse club, you can come to the first meeting or contact the 4-H Office for more information.
Club Leaders: Mary Godke, Volunteer & Katlin Gordon, 4-H Agent
The 4-H Junior Leader experience provides members with the opportunity to gain experience about the qualities and competencies needed to be a leader. Junior Leaders help with 4-H events and assume more challenging leadership roles. Junior Leaders may assist with specific community projects or with more general 4-H activities and events. 4-H Junior Leaders are also at the fore-front and heart of 4-H’s service-learning projects, and this is one of the important aspects of the club. 4-H members are eligible to be in the Junior Leader Project Club if they are in 8th-12th grade! If you would like to be a Jr. Leader, you can come to the first meeting or contact the 4-H Office for more information.
Archery Head Coach: David Gordon, Volunteer
Shotgun Head Coach: Wyly Gilfoil, Volunteer
The Louisiana 4-H Shooting Sports program encompasses the initiative goals of volunteer leadership, capacity building for youth and families, and the environmental stewardship with commitments from the Louisiana State University AgCenter. The disciplines are modeled after the National 4-H shooting Sports Program and are administered by nationally certified state leaders consisting of extension personnel and volunteers. The mission of the Louisiana 4-H Shooting Sports Program is to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills, and forming attitudes so that they may become self-directing, productive, and contributing members of society.
West Feliciana Parish 4-H currently offers two disciplines- Shotgun and Archery! Please keep in mind that some practices will overlap for Archery and Shotgun. Most if not all practices are on Sunday afternoons.
Participants must be 9 years old by January 1, 2027, to participate in Shooting Sports.
Club Leader: Martha Robertson, Volunteer
Sewing is a service and art that has been lost to most of our modern-day society. The 4-H Youth Development Program strives to teach youth skills in belonging, independence, generosity, and mastery. This is accomplished through three focus areas called mission mandates: Citizenship; Healthy Living; and Science, Engineering, and Technology. Through the sewing project, youth are exposed to all these mandates as sewing is naturally a part of healthy living, it encompasses set, and they also learn citizenship skills through the Service Projects that they do. At our sewing club meetings, we have different skill level groups that meet, and we learn how to work the machines, learn patterns, and do many different projects to get a well-rounded sewing experience! If you would like to join our sewing group, there is form that you will need to fill out and pay dues, which will help with supplies and refreshments.
Club Leader: Layne Langley, Area Nutrition and Community Health Agent
All 4-H’ers are welcome to join regardless of their skill level. The club will meet from 5:30pm-7:30pm at the Extension Office on some third and fourth Tuesdays of each month.
Club Leaders: M’Adele Miller, Volunteer & Jessie Hoover, ANR Agent
Do you live and breathe plants? Does growing your own food, flowers and spending time outdoors interest you? Horticulture involves the science and art of cultivating flowers, fruits, vegetables or ornamental plants in a garden, orchard, or nursery. The 4-H horticulture project helps you discover the magic of plants, whether for food, contests, or pure enjoyment. Come join our ANR agent, Jessie Hoover, for this brand-new adventure. Open to 7th through 12th graders, Horticulture Club will be a journey to learn all about plants!
