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It Starts With Us
Author: Amanda Sears
Major Program: Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
The Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud Program (PIUKP) is a partnership between the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the University of Kentucky School of Human Environmental Sciences. The goal of this program is to provide recipes using Kentucky Proud products. While the Plate it up! Kentucky Proud committee is primarily composed of Family and Consumer Science Agents, the Madison County Cooperative Extension Agent for Horticulture ser
Author: Peggy Jones
Major Program: Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Rowan County has a population of 20,898 as of 2010 census, 3057 (15%) are seniors that are 55 or older. 18 % of the seniors live in poverty in Rowan County and have limited access to fresh produce. FCS Agent initiated a program called Grow Your Vitamins with goal of increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables. For the 3rd year, Extension collaborated with the Rowan County High School FFA members and Instructor, Maysville Community College Retired Agriculture Instruc
Author: Diana Doggett
Major Program: Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud provides healthy, great tasting recipes using Kentucky Proud products in order to increase consumer purchase, preparation, and preservation of Kentucky grown and value-added commodities, through marketing and educational collaborations. The project is a Family and Consumer Sciences Extension driven partnership with the School of Human Environmental Sciences and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. Since 2011 over 1M recipe cards and hundreds of programs
Author: Alethea Price
Major Program: Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
In Boyle County the Horticulture Agent and FCS Agent partner regularly on programming and outreach. In 2019, the Horticulture Agent partnered with Centre College to start a CSA for the employees of the college. The FCS Agent would provide Plate It Up recipe cards for each of the prepared CSA share bags. It was extremely successful which led to another year. In 2020 we have continued to offer PIU recipe cards with each share.Plate it Up! Kentucky Proud is a series of resources to promote fruit an
Author: Rachel Hance
Major Program: Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Feeding America, Kentucky and Logan County have a significant number of children and adolescents that fall under the classification of overweight or obese (16.1% overweight and 20.0% obese adolescents and 16% overweight and 15.9% obese children ages 2-5 years). There is also a large percentage of youth that do not eat the recommended number of fruits and vegetables daily (49.3% at vegetables less than 1 time a day and 51.7% ate fru
Author: Heather Norman-Burgdolf
Major Program: Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Research is clear that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can help protect against several chronic diseases, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers. Nationwide, it is estimated that only 12.2% of adult meet the recommended amount of fruits each day and only 9.3% meet recommendations for vegetables (CDC, 2018). Kentucky falls even further below the national averages with only 8.0% of adults meeting daily recommendations for fruits and 6.3% meeting recommendations for
