UT Extension - Henry County

Happy Birthday to the very best of the best, our CHERRY!! We hope you have an extra special day! 🎉🎂❤️

FCS agents, Michele Atkins and Lacy Yeley hosted a FUN “Cowboy Candy” canning class today! These participants are ready to make this deliciousness in their homes now!

If you have a child camping with me this week, make sure to join our group- 2026 Henry County, TN 4-H camp. I will be posting all info and pictures there.

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This will be so much fun!

Last week, we hosted the Henry County Youth Leadership Class for a Lifeskills day! We had a ball! Cody Bryson lead a great “hands-on” class on tire changing, how to jump off a vehicle, and what’s what under the hood. Michele, Cherry, and Lacy Yeley- Carroll County FCS agent, taught a canning class where youth made and canned strawberry jam. Learning how to sew on a button and discovering their love/relationship language rounded out the day! Thank you to Jessica French who asked us to be part of their leadership experience!

Spring Fling was held last week for Henry County FCE members! Everyone enjoyed our guest speakers and a catered lunch. Our first speakers were Jessica Crouch, City of Paris Community Development Director and Abby Pierce, City of Paris Community Engagement Coordinator giving us updates on new projects, along with statistics and trends. Their program was followed by city PD officers, Chris Roberson and Jimmy Newman providing information on new scams and avoiding fraud. Our final speaker for the day was Riley Schoolfield, owner of Schoolfield Pharmacy, who gave us information on vitamin D and the role it plays in our bodies. It was a FANTASTIC educational day!

It was a fantastic day spent learning and sharing in Carroll County at our FCE Cluster Training! Attending from Henry County were Kathy Ball, Mary Lynn Summers, and FCS agent, Michele Atkins.

We had such an incredible week teaching money skills to the 1st and 2nd graders at Henry Elementary School! Watching their excitement as they learned and understand more about the value of money was truly rewarding.

It was especially meaningful to have state representative, Tandy Darby join us on the final day. We are so grateful for the amazing support from the 1st and 2nd grade teachers and principal, Ashley James, who made this possible.

Moments like these remind us why we love what we do.❤️

We had so much fun serving fish and all the trimmings at the Fish tent for the World’s Biggest Fish Fry! Missing a few, but so thankful for friends and family who showed up and helped!!!