By: Grayson Meck
A Summary of This Week:
Over the past week here in the Henrico County Extension office, I have done much of the same program planning as last week, but I also got to tag along with Ed on a few meetings and site visits, as well. As I’ve learned already, the life of an extension agent is one of flexibility and variety on a day to day basis. So, whether I was in the office filling out the templates for each activity for the upcoming Horticulture Day Camp or simply making copies for Ed or another co-worker in the office, I have really been trying to do my best to soak up as much information as I am able from conversation in the office, newly printed flyers, or updates on the Extension website. One thing has remained clear to me throughout my entire time here in the office: Each agent or employee has obligations that they work on together as a whole in order to best collaborate and improve previous or future programs, but also have their own, job-related work that is separate from everyone else’s. That being said, I have worked much of this week on my own time in order to make sure I will be well-organized and conduct enough activities for my day when that time comes, but I also went to Deep Run Park near my house with Ed on Tuesday to meet with the Recs and Park employees there to get a better sense of the layout/commodities for the Bug Bizarre to be help this September. It was interesting to me to see that really great relationship that Extension has with Recs and Parks because it allows for a cheap, easy-to-run event with little need for reaching out to rent chairs or other outside resources. On Thursday, I took a little break from my own program planning and met in the conference room with Kim and Kendra who have been putting together the Food Day Camp schedule over the past couple weeks and we assigned a couple of the activities to be led by me. It should be a nice warm up for my day the following week for the Horticulture Day Camp that I will lead on my own. Finally, today I visited a man with Ed who had called in complaining that the trees down his neighborhood cul de sac. To my surprise, Ed immediately had a reasonable explanation for the low-lying, damaged leaves on the right side of the road. He immediately says, ” It’s obviously because of the recent pave. No pests or diseases would be affecting multiple trees this way.” I quickly recognized that the exhaust must’ve blown up towards the same height on each tree lining the road, and I was pretty impressed by Ed’s quick response. All in all it was another great week here in the Henrico Extension Office, and I am very excited for Day Camps to begin next week! Stay tuned for my next post!
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