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4-H Clubs

These are the 4-H Clubs active in McHenry County. To find out more about these clubs or forming your own 4-H Club, contact the McHenry County Extension office.

Cary Area

  • 4-H 4 Fun
    Club interests: child development, consumer interests, foods, clothing/sewing, dogs, outdoor projects, theatre arts

Crystal Lake

  • Calico Clovers
    Club interests: general and home economics, swine, dogs

  • Crystal Clovers
    Club interests: general and home economics, small pets

Harvard

  • Mano-A-Mano
    Club interests: clothing/sewing, foods, horse, rabbits, horticulture, sheep, visual arts

Harvard area

  • 4-H Falcons
    Club interests: dogs, home economics, general projects

  • Harvard Prairie Toppers
    Club interests: large livestock, small pets, horses, home economics, general projects

  • Milk Center
    Club interests: livestock, small pets, home economics, general projects. Cloverbud Group (ages 5-7).

  • New Wave
    Club interests: large livestock, home economics, general projects

Hebron Area

  • Hebron Helping Hands
    Club interests: dairy, sheep, swine, poultry, robotics, foods, photography, visual arts, woodworking. Visit their website at: www.orgsites.com/il/hebronhelpinghands4-hclub/

Huntley

  • Huntley Heartland Clovers
    General projects, livestock and home economics.

Huntley Area

  • Huntley Harvestors
    Club interests: swine, beef, horses, dogs, home economics, general projects

  • Huntley Pioneers
    Club interests: home economics, general projects

Marengo

  • Cross County Farmers
    Club interests: mostly large livestock

  • Paws and Hooves
    Animals; visual arts.

Marengo Area

  • Country Clovers
    Club interests: small pets, home economics, general projects

  • Milky Way
    Club interests: dairy, swine, poultry, beef, rabbits, woodworking, visual arts

McHenry

  • The Dessert Club
    Cloverbud

  • The Wacky Shamrock Society
    All projects.

Richmond Area

  • Community Clovers and Gophers
    Club interests: large livestock, horses, small pets, home economics, general projects, Cloverbud Group (ages 5-7)

Richmond/Spring Grove Area

  • Clover Rocket Equestrians
    Club interests: Horses

  • Clover Rockets
    Club interests: swine, sheep, horses, dogs, general projects, home economics

  • Trail Blazers
    Club interests: Horses, general projects, and home economics.

Ringwood Area

  • Busy Three
    Club interests: beef, swine, foods, visual arts

Special Interest Groups

  • Creative Quilters
    Made up of community youth and volunteer leaders, this group focuses on learning the basics and advanced quilting techniques.

  • McHenry County Tech Team (MCYTT)
    A pilot 4-H Youth Technology Leadership Team developed by 4-H youth, adult volunteers and staff of University of Illinois Extension -McHenry County. 4-H teens share a commitment to use technological skills to help integrate more technology into all 4-H programs and to close the Digital Divide that separates the technology haves and have-nots. This group is open to any pre-teen and teen youth in McHenry County. http://www.mcytt.org/

Spring Grove

  • Green United Clever Clovers
    Club interests: international, photography, foods, visual arts

Wonder Lake Area

  • Greenwood Handi-Helpers
    Club interests: dogs, home economics, general projects

Woodstock

  • LINK Together
    All projects.

Woodstock Area

  • Community Builders
    Club interests: large livestock, dogs, home economics, general projects, Cloverbud Group (ages 5 - 7)

  • Community Cloverleaves
    Club interest: Citizenship, visual arts, home economics, beef, sheep and dogs.

  • Hobby Horse
    Club interests: horses, swine, dogs, general projects, home economics

  • Keepers of the Clover
    Club interests: dairy, swine, dogs, general projects, home economics

  • Woodstock Wannabes
    Club interests: dogs, home economics, general projects

News & Updates
McHenry County 4-H Newsletter
News from the McHenry County 4-H program.
Get Up and Move!
4-H activities that encourage physical activity to help create healthy individuals, families and communities.
Illinois Leader
Leader news from the State 4-H Office.
Nibbles
Ideas for coping with the challenges of parenting and preparing your children for success.
Parenting Again
A newsletter focused on grandparents raising their grandchildren.
Working Families
News and ideas for families with working parents.
Upcoming Events

4-H Horse Committee
Woodstock, Illinois (McHenry County)
November 24, 2009

4-H Holiday Workshop
Woodstock, Illinois (McHenry County)
December 5, 2009

Poultry/Pigeon Clinic
Woodstock, Illinois (McHenry County)
December 12, 2009

Full event calendar >>

Contact Us
For more information about these programs, please contact:

Katie Wagner Roberts
Extension Educator, Youth Development
McHenry County Unit
1102 McConnell Road
Box 1430
Woodstock, IL 60098
Phone: 815-338-3737 x11
FAX: 815-338-4755
kwagner@illinois.edu

Cindy Harris
4-H Community Worker
McHenry County Unit
1102 McConnell Road
Box 1430
Woodstock, IL 60098
Phone: 815-338-3737 x18
FAX: 815-338-4755
crharris@illinois.edu

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