Food Preparation and PreservationMajor Program

9438

Total Hours

Contributed.

27801

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

55

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

405

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of individuals who demonstrated safe handling and preparation and/or preservation of food

7060

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

7021

Number of individuals who reported preparing more healthy home-cooked meals

4994

Number of pints of fruits or vegetables dried

1236

Number of pints of fruits or vegetables frozen

3964

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

5082

Number of individuals who reported improved knowledge, opinions, skills, or aspirations regarding the safe storage, handling, preparation and/or preservation of food

51388

Number of Food Preservation Workshop participants reporting an increase in food preservation skills

41366

Number of Food Preservation Workshop participants

41549

Stories

Preserving History through Nutrition and Heritage

The Red 1949 Cookbook is a Harrison County, Kentucky cookbook printed in 1949 featuring recipes from Harrison County Homemakers. Numerous requests were received to replicate copies of the cookbook due to a resurfaced interest in seeking the history found throughout its pages. After much research and digging, a copy was located and replicated. This new 2022 reprint consists of the original cookbook with zero changes made to the pages or ads included. The recipes belonged to homemakers that now ma...

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Preserving History through Nutrition and Heritage

Stories Behind the Numbers

  • Food Presrvation Workshop

    Montgomery, Bath and Menifee Counties Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agents collaborated to offer a food preservation workshop for a total of seven participants. Agents taught lessons and led ... Read More

  • Food Preservation

    Success Story- Food Preservation WorkshopMontgomery, Bath and Menifee Counties Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agents collaboratedto offer a food preservation workshop for a total of seven part... Read More

  • Encouraging and Improving Vegetable Consumption

    Encouraging and Improving Vegetable ConsumptionDiets high in fruits and vegetablesreduce the riskof many chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity,heart disease and stroke. Roughlyhalfof adult... Read More

  • Ready, Set, Bake!

    The COVID19 pandemic left many in West Kentucky in situations with which they had never before dealt. Early in the pandemic many stockpiled pantry staples in fear of shortages on grocery shelves. Many... Read More

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