Success Stories

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  July

  Multi-state Collaborations Engaging Farmer Leaders to Improve Water Quality

  Kentuckys 90,000 miles of waterways drain into the Mississippi River, which provides two-thirds of the freshwater that flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Excessive nutrients carried by the Mississippi Riv...

  
  

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  April

  Motherhouse Good Ideas Field Day

  UK Extension specialists partnered with Loretto Motherhouse Farm and the Washington County agriculture and natural resources agent to offer an in-person field day highlighting stewardship practices us...

  
  

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  July

  Loretto Motherhouse Farm project

  UK Extension specialists partnered with Loretto Motherhouse Farm during summer of 2022 to host anin-person field day and create videos highlighting stewardship practices used on the farm. The Good Ide...

  
  

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  13

  July

  Trees and Water: Forest Stewardship Field Day in the Knobs

  Kentuckys landscape is 48% forested, with the vast majority (88%) owned by private landowners. Forests are an important part of the landscape and provide essential ecosystem services such as carbon di...

  
  

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