Local Food SystemsMajor Program

13372

Total Hours

Contributed.

92850

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

577

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

1536

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of producers who can accurately identify agricultural food products that extend beyond the growing season 

2055

Number of producers reporting more confidence in marketing/selling food products

1262

Number of producers who were successful in marketing/selling food products

2306

Number of residents reporting an increase in accessing fresh, local foods

18015

Number of residents indicating a willingness to support local food markets as a result of awareness raised through Extension programming 

16564

Number of producers who were encouraged by Extension programming to seek additional training on food safety ( FAP, FSMA, etc.)

1398

Number of producers who were successfully trained by Extension on food safety (GAP or FSMA)

1204

Number of producers who successfully obtained value-added processing certification (HBM, HBP, BPCS, etc.) through Extension programming

316

Stories

Farm to Fork Dinner

Local FFA students serving dinner.Beautiful table display including the menu featuring Kentucky Proud products.Appetizers are served!Clinton-Hickman County Rotary Club and the Hickman County Cooperative Extension Service co-hosted the Kentucky Proud Farm to Fork Fundraising Dinner on August 31, 2017 along with the Farm to Fork Committee. This was unique opportunity to simultaneously eat a delicious Kentucky Proud meal prepared by local caterers and bakers, Cooperative Extension staff and volunte...

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Farm to Fork Dinner

Stories Behind the Numbers

  • 2017 City to Farm Tour

    The 2017 City to Farm Tour was held on September 14th, 20017 with well over 70 local business leaders/ Pulaski county chamber members in attendance. Extension partnered with the Somerset-Pulaski Co Ch... Read More

  • City To Farm Tour

    Sixty-nine “City People” from Pulaski County attended the “City To Farm Tour” to learn how six farmers make their living, living on the farm. For the first time the city people learned how to have... Read More

  • City to Farm Tour

    The 2017 City to Farm Tour was held on September 14, 2017 with well over 70 local business leaders and Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce members in attendance. Extension partnered with the Somerse... Read More

  • Farm to Fork Dinner

    Local FFA students serving dinner.Beautiful table display including the menu featuring Kentucky Proud products.Appetizers are served!Clinton-Hickman County Rotary Club and the Hickman County Cooperati... Read More

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