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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu

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Contact Information

Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu




Fiscal Year:
Jul 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2020


Food PreservationMajor Program

4457

Total Hours

Contributed.

7049

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

3

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

90

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number pints of fruits, vegetables or fruit/vegetable products (pickles, jams, jellies, sauces) canned through water bath canning

10949

Number of families/caregivers reporting supplementing their diets with healthy foods that they preserved (utilizing community or backyard gardens, fishing, hunting, farmers markets)

1977

Number pints of vegetables, soups, meats, or other value-added products canned through pressure canning

9475

Number pints of fruits or vegetables frozen

7109

Number pints of fruits or vegetables food dried

2394

Number of food preservation program participants who correctly demonstrated recommended food preservation practices (canning, freezing or dehydration)

2485

Number of food preservation program participants reporting increased food preservation knowledge or skills (such as safe preservation techniques for canning, freezing and dehydration; identifying food spoilage; use of proper tools, etc.) 

2160

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One in five households in the United States practice home canning, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The Center for Disease Control has stated that 30 percent of botulism cases from the past decade was caused by home canning practices. In an effort to promote safe canning practices in the Barren County community the County Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences partnered with retired agents and the Nutrition Education Program to present a 3 day Food Preservation Worksh...

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