Success Stories

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  October

  Cooking Camps Teach Valuable Nutrition Concepts and Kitchen Skills

  According to 2022 data from the State of Childhood Obesity website, 24.6% of Kentucky children ages 10 to 17 have obesity. This places Kentuckys childhood obesity rates at second highest in the nation...

  
  

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• 12

  July

  Students Learn Valuable Kitchen Safety Skills

  According to the Afterschool Alliance, 85,849 Kentucky children were left alone and unsupervised between the hours of 3 and 6 p.m. in 2020. This is still the case for many students in Simpson County, ...

  
  

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  April

  Logan County Youth Get Kindergarten Ready

  According to the Governors Office of Early Childhood, only 44.1% of Kentucky children and 43.5% of Logan County children were ready to enter kindergarten in 2022. The Kentucky State University Area Ag...

  
  

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  12

  January

  Freezing and Dehydrating Workshops in the Mammoth Cave Area

  Food prices have seen a rapid increase in recent years. Grocery prices rose 11.4 percent from January 2022 to January 2023 and continued, albeit slower, price growth is predicted (USDA ERS, 2023). For...

  
  

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