Volume 47, Number 6 (2009)
Feature Articles
City Fresh: A Local Collaboration for Food Equity
Punam Ohri-Vachaspati, Brad Masi, Morgan Taggart, Joe Konen, and Jack Kerrigan
Who Shops at the Market? Using Consumer Surveys to Grow Farmers' Markets: Findings from a Regional Market in Northwestern Vermont
Daniel Baker, Kelly Hamshaw, and Jane Kolodinsky
Understanding What Rocks Their World: Motivational Factors of Rural Volunteers
Rachelle Vettern, Thomas Hall, and Mark Schmidt
Community Voices—A Leadership Program Making a Difference in Rural Underserved Counties in North Carolina
Jane T. Walker and Benjamin Gray
Exploring the Positive Impact of 4-H Camp on Youth: Identifying Differences Based on a Camper's Gender, Years of Attendance, and Age
Jason Hedrick, Greg Homan, and Jeff Dick
The Consumer Education Program for Residential Energy Efficiency
Joseph Laquarta, Mark R. Pierce, and Nicholas Helmholdt
Bioenergy from Woody Biomass, Potential for Economic Development, and the Need for Extension
Donald L. Grebner, Gustavo Perez-Verdin, James E. Henderson, and Andrew J. Londo
Examining Information Search Strategies of Ohio Farmers
Florian Diekmann and Marvin T. Batte
Research in Brief
An Examination of the Impact of Organizational Restructuring on Identification Within Extension
Cynthia B. Torppa and Keith L. Smith
Challenges, Alternatives, and Educational Strategies in Reaching Limited Income Audiences
Lisa M. Benavente, KSU Jayaratne, and Lorelei Jones
Survey of Former IDA Program Participants: How Do They Fare?
Cäzilla Loibl and Beth Red Bird
4-H Youth Worker Characteristics: Comparisons with Workers from Other Youth-Serving Organizations
William P. Evans, Lorie L. Sicafuse, and Eric Killian
Promoting Alternative Enterprises: Assessing Farmers' Needs in Research, Education, and Extension
Safdar Muhammad, Omoanghe S. Isiskhuemhen, and Aydin Basarir
Comparison of Water Quality Program Efforts for Non-Governmental Organizations Within Northern Gulf of Mexico Watersheds
Robert F. Brzuszek, Taze Fulford III, Hall Roberts, and Timothy J. Schauwecker
Factors Affecting Wisconsin Feeder Calf Prices at a Local Livestock Market
Bill Halfman, Jeffrey W. Lehmkuhler, and Tom Cox
On-Farm Mortality Composting in Washington State: Outreach and Producer Survey
Caitlin Price, Lynne Carpernter-Boggs, and Jessica Goldberger
Ideas at Work
Program Update: Multi-State Extension Conference Addresses Food Diversity from Farm to Table
Daniel Thomas Remley, Gae Broadwater, James Jordan, Rosie Allen, and Peggy Ehlers
Educating Limited Acreage Producers Using Web-Based Technology
Blake K. Bennett, Jason L. Johnson, and Rebecca Parker
Turfgrass Industry Practitioners and the Pesticide Label
Michael A. Fidanza, David L. Sanford, Scott D. Guiser, and Jeffrey A. Borger
Improving The Landscape Design Skills of North Carolina Green Industry Professionals
Anthony V. LaBude, Pat Lindsey, Anne Spafford, Lucy Bradley, Michelle Wallace, and Clifford D. Ruth
A Regional Multicultural Approach to Sustaining Wild Rice
Patrick Robinson, Scott Herron, Rebecca Power, and Deborah Zak
Tools of the Trade
What Cooperative Extension Professionals Need to Know About Institutional Review Boards: Working with Youth
Jessica Tegt and Ben West
Experiential Learning and Cooperative Extension: Partners in Non-Formal Education for a Century and Beyond
Jodi L. Torock
Creating an External Funding Strategy: How to Thrive
Kristi N. Hughes and Lauren D. Ledbetter
The Focus Group as a Demonstration Technique
Thomas J. Straka, Matt Nespeca, Matthew B. Howell, and Heather T. Irwin
Expanded Information Delivery Using the World Wide Web
Steven B. Johnson
Extending Expertise Through Conference Calls and Blogging
Lisa DiPietro and Michelle Miller