San Carlos Extension

One of the San Carlos Extension's 4-H youth development programs is a Junior Master Gardening Internship Program called  Building Bridges.  Last school year 2007-08, the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension and the San Carlos Diabetes Prevention Program introduced a wonderful program designed to educate Apache youth nutritional and gardening concepts. We used a curriculum from a nationally recognized 4-H program, Junior Master Gardener Health and Nutrition from the Garden, to teach these concepts.

San Carlos Extension provides a junior master gardening internship program.

This program provides outreach to 5 cattle associations, 2 tribal
ranches, and 2 private ranchers on the San Carlos Apache Tribal
Reservation in southeastern Arizona. Total cattle numbers are
approximately 15,000 head of cattle, all of which are pastured on
extensive rangelands. The program aims to educate cattle producers in
improved cattle nutrition, breeding, livestock records, ranch financial
management, horse production, and range management.

The San Carlos extension agent has offered outreach to San Carlos
Tribal Farms, the Spay Neuter Planning Committee, and the Livestock
Homeland Security Committee. She provided soil and crop
recommendations, farm budgeting analysis, as well as insect control
technical assistance, to the Tribal hay farm and is coordinating
research with the University of Arizona on ethanol production at the
farm.

Communities
The total tribal enrollment includes 13,246
people, with the enrolled tribal membership in residence on the
reservation at 10,709 people. There are three main communities, San
Carlos (tribal governmental seat), Peridot, and Bylas. Peridot and San
Carlos are on the western side of the reservation, and Bylas is on the
extreme eastern side of the reservation. Median family income was below
$20,000 (2000 U.S. Census). Unemployment rates are very high compared
to the state average

The San Carlos Apache Reservation Quick Facts