Statistical Contact Report for FY2024Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024

882188.2

Total Hours

Contributed.

4116128

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

8867.2

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

199952

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Stories

Growing A Garden

When I go into the classroom and ask the students where their food comes from, 90% of the students answer Kroger or Walmart. I teach a lot of the ag lessons in my school clubs. Our District Board purchased land and it was just sitting there not being used, so I ask if I could start a garden club. So a plot of 100 ft. by 150ft. was prepared to grow a garden. Carroll County Cattlemen group put a fence around the garden plot. I held the first meeting with 12 students and their parents attending. ...

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Growing A Garden

People

Mary Story

Extension Support Staff (hourly)

Mary
WifeMother of 3Book WormChristianTrue Crime AddictCloset HippieMusic Lover... More

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