Statistical Contact Report for FY2025Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025

247600

Total Hours

Contributed.

1032827

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

2222

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

68820

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

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Community Garden Eases Food Insecurity

“According to U.S. Census estimates for 2022, the median household income in Kentucky is $59,341, 21% lower than the U.S. median household income of $74,755. Kentucky also has higher percentages of overall and child poverty and food insecurity among its population compared to 2020 Census and Department of Agriculture estimates for the United States overall,” quoted from the Simpson County 2023 NEP Report.The Nutrition Education Program approaches this challenge with efforts to provide hands-on n...

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Community Garden Eases Food Insecurity

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W. Garrett Owen

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W. Garrett
W. Garrett Owen is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist of floriculture, greenhouse and controlled-environment crop production in the Department of Horticulture at the University of Kentuck... More

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