Webb County

Interested in becoming a Texas Master Gardener in Webb County? Look no further! This volunteer program trains individuals in horticulture to assist Texas A&M AgriLife Extension with community education and outreach.

Education and resources focused on sustainable gardening, landscaping, and plant care for homeowners and community spaces.

Support for beginner and experienced beekeepers on hive management, pollinator health, and honey production.

Guidance for landowners on managing small properties for livestock, wildlife, or other agricultural desires with conservation and productivity in mind.

Services and education to help landowners assess soil fertility and water quality for optimal plant and land health.

Programs tailored to ranchers in South Texas, covering livestock, brush control, range management, and drought resilience.

If you have an interest in nutrition, health, wellness, and active living and want to contribute to your community, look no further than the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension’s Master Wellness Volunteer Program.

Cooking Well is a suite of programs that focus on chronic disease prevention, nutritious eating habits, and promoting an active lifestyle. The programs offered are:

• Cooking Well with Diabetes
• Cooking Well for Healthy Blood Pressure
• Cooking Well, Exploring Cultures
• Cooking Well: Mediterranean

Interested in maintaining your health goals over the holidays? With Maintain No Gain, you’ll receive the group support and motivation needed to achieve your goals and receive tasty holiday recipes and helpful information along the way.

Get Ready to Work Out! This twice-a-week, 12-week program has guided instruction and health information to target improving bone density to give you more flexibility, strength, and balance.

Working together to bring up-to-date information and training requirements for all early childhood caregivers, this conference is designed to prepare our educators receive the necessary continuing education units.

Through Better Living for Texans, adult nutrition education programs are offered to the Webb County community to help adults understand, plan, prepare, and consume healthy meals for a healthy lifestyle.

• Healthy Carbohydrates
• Get The Facts
• A Fresh Start to A Healthier You

Better Living for Texans offers fun, interactive programs for our Webb County youth community and focuses on teaching kiddos how to increase their fruit and vegetable consumption and decrease their intake of sugary drinks!

• Choose Healthy (ages 10 and up)
• Color Me Healthy (early childhood)

One of Better Living for Texans program goals is to increase active lifestyles through physical activity education. These once-a-week programs offer lessons, activities, and goal setting to help you achieve your active goals!

• Be Well, Live Well
• Walk-N-Talk
• Walk Across Texas

Better Living for Texans works hard to keep kids active and healthy, that is why we offer programs for the community and in-school to promote active lifestyles and get kids to understand the importance of staying active and healthy!

• Balancing Food and Play (all ages)
• Walk-N-Talk (all ages)

Want to know more about growing your own garden full of tasty vegetables? The Better Living for Texans program in Webb County offers programs to help adults learn more about starting a garden, insects and diseases, harvesting quality vegetables, and understanding food waste.

• Growing & Nourishing Healthy Communities
• Get a Taste to Reduce Food Waste

What’s more fun that getting our littlest Texas learners to get their hands dirty with gardening knowledge! The Better Living for Texans program offers fun lessons for elementary school-aged children focusing on learning about vegetable plants, gardens, and plant parts.

• Learn, Grow, Eat & Go (ages 8 and up)
• Early Childhood – Learn, Grow, Eat & Go (ages 3 to 6)

Interested in joining our growing Texas 4-H program? With over ten clubs to choose from and projects such as livestock, photography, food & nutrition, community service, and shooting sports, our dedicated group of club managers will help you find what interests you the most!

Find the latest information and ordering forms to complete your state validation for all livestock in the county. Stay up-to-date with changes in rules, regulations, and important information related to steer, heifers, lambs, goats, poultry, and swine.

Be part of the Webb County’s youth agriculture mechanics program and participate in fun woodworking and welding projects that will keep you busy and ready to create, build, and design.

The Webb County youth Backyard Bass Fishing program is a great way to learn about bass fishing through our certified volunteers. With fun, interactive workshops, learn how to identify different native fish, learn about healthy habitats, and try your luck at catching a fish at our local parks.

Inside this issue of Webb County’s Agriculture and Natural Resources e-newsletter, brought to you by ANR Agent Jeffrey Hester, find the latest for Webb County’s agriculture events, important information, and educational resources.

Food for Thought is an educational e-newsletter brought to you by Aileen Sifuentes, through Better Living for Texans – Webb County, and features information that will fuel your body and nourish your mind.

Rooting for Health is an educational e-newsletter brought to you Cynthia Covarrubias, through Better Living for Texans – Webb County and features information that will have you digging deeper into healthy gardening.

The Healthful Plate is an educational e-newsletter brought to you by Valeria Arredondo, through Better Living for Texans – Webb County and goes into detail when savoring the bite of a healthy plate by breaking down ingredients and their benefits.