Montana State University Extension Lake County welcomes new extension agent

Published: 2019
By Breton Homewood

Breton Homewood is our newest Agent for Lake County Extension. Breton comes to us from Gainesville, Florida, where he completed his Master’s in Sustainable Development Practices. Through the course of obtaining his master’s, Breton did research on gender and nutrition with a grant from USAID in Honduras. Before the University of Florida, Breton was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, serving as an agriculture extension agent in Paraguay, South America. Many of the family consumer science topics, like beekeeping, bread making, community building, and nutritional classes, were taught by Breton while he was in the Peace Corps. Breton lived and worked in a community of 100 people, in the cow-country part of Paraguay. Despite being from Florida, Breton has also lived for many years in Flagstaff, Arizona, and attended Northern Arizona University there. Breton’s many hobbies include, restoring a 1972 VW Beetle, woodworking project, painting, electronic building and programming, general mechanics, photography, permagardening, beekeeping, and cooking. Breton has already had a successful start here at Lake County facilitating our 4H cloverbuds in a pumpkin painting class. Future plans include beekeeping courses, auto mechanics workshops, bread baking classes, and backyard gardens.