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

702556.3

Total Hours

Contributed.

3354950

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

6772.2

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

157002

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

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Little Big Impacts

Every spring when the forsythia bushes start to bloom, the local Extension Offices phone starts ringing. Clients with home horticulture questions start buzzing with anticipation for the upcoming garden season and as their preparations are made, they have many questions. The string of questions continues as the season progresses, making home horticulture questions a very demanding and time consuming responsibility for Agriculture and Natural Resources Agents, especially those who do not have Hort...

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People

W. Garrett Owen

Extension Faculty

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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