Campers at 4-H Camp Cherry Lake, in Madison County

Story Submitted Growing up in north Florida during the 1960s, Clara Floyd was an avid 4-H member. “I ate, slept and breathed 4-H. I just about turned ‘green,’” she said, referring to the program’s green cloverleaf emblem. So when her children were old enough to join 4-H themselves, she signed them up. Her daughters embraced it, but Ryan, her youngest, wasn’t sold. “I had to drag him to meetings. It was heartbreaking — how could I have given birth to a child who didn’t love 4