Success Stories By MajorProgram FY2019Jul 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2019
Winter Farm Business Classes lead to earlier spring planting & increased participant income
Author: Bethany Pratt
Major Program: Commercial Horticulture - Crop Marketing
2019 is the second year of a three-year farm business development program for New Americans in Louisville, KY. The program is co-facilitated by the Jefferson Co. Horticulture Agent and Program Manager from Common Earth Gardens, a division of Catholic Charities with support from Navigate Enterprise Services (Louisville Org. that specializes in limited resource/New American business development) and Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (KCARD). Participants in the program had to a
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Continued Success of Direct Marketing Training Curriculum
Author: Brett Wolff
Major Program: Commercial Horticulture - Crop Marketing
In 2017, I led the development of a successful $50,000 grant proposal to the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program to develop a new marketing curriculum for small commercial horticulture producers in Kentucky. Many of these producers fall between the large home garden scale and the small wholesale scale and their needs for marketing training and development are quite unique. This curriculum is adaptable and allows producers to customize the curriculum by choosing from a list of plug and play module
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