Home Horticulture - Community Gardens and Horticulture TherapyPlan of Work

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Campbell County CES

Title:
Home Horticulture - Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy
MAP:
Home Horticulture
Agents Involved:
Stolz, Turner, Pilcher
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Horticulture, Consumer and Home
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Master Gardener
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Nutrition and Food Systems General
Situation:

Collaborations with: City of Dayton, City of Silver Grove, Northern Kentucky University, Campbell County Detention Center, Brighton Center, Hosea House, Holly Hill Children’s Home, VA Medical Center Recreation Therapy, Ft. Thomas Public Schools, and Active Day Adult Daycare will help to provide space to incorporate learning opportunities and educational assistance to individuals and families about vegetable gardening, horticulture and other environmental topics. These programs also allow a safe space for individuals to incorporate horticulture therapy as part of a healing process into their lives. 

Long-Term Outcomes:

Provide the opportunity for healthy, sustainable food, and act as a catalyst for community engagement and developing partnerships.

Intermediate Outcomes:

Provide the tools and resources to help participants, who may have mental and or physical disabilities, engage in horticulture programming. Provide an increase in community development, an increase in healthier recipes and cooking with produce from the garden, and an increase in economic development.

Initial Outcomes:

Provide opportunity for more participants by increasing the number of garden plots. Work to improve conditions of the gardens through soil amendments, composting and educating gardeners about vegetable pests and diseases (BMP).

Evaluation:

Long-term outcome: Increase collaboration with local government, schools, and businesses to invest in gardening space and or other horticulture programming

Indicator: Increase of gardening participation

Method: On-site demonstration, publications

Timeline:2020-2021


Intermediate outcome: Integrate horticulture programming and access to all.

Indicator: Increase awareness of mental and physical improvements while gardening and eating more fruit and vegetables

Method: On-site demonstration, publications

Timeline:2020-2021


Initial outcome: Provide basic horticulture programming and growing programs for new gardeners

Indicator: County increase need of farm to table programming as indicated by county assessment report 2019

Method: On-site demonstration, publications

Timeline: 2020-2021

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Community Gardeners
Project or Activity: Pre-gardening class, Organic gardening classes, food safety classes, cooking classes
Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Horticulture Technicians, Master Gardener Volunteers
 Date: 2020-2021


Audience: Horticulture Therapy
Project or Activity: Lakeside Educational gardens and sensory gardens
Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Horticulture Technicians, Master Gardener Volunteers
 Date: 2020-2021


Audience: Community Gardeners and Horticulture Therapy
Project or Activity: KY proud recipes and harvesting techniques
Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Horticulture Technicians, Master Gardener Volunteers
 Date: 2020-2021


Audience: Community Gardener participants
Project or Activity: Hands-on demonstration/workshops on small space vegetable gardening
Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Horticulture Technicians, Master Gardener Volunteers
 Date: 2020-2021


Audience: Clientele with limitations, caregivers, hospital staff, nursing facility/adult day care employees, teachers & aides
Project or Activity: Gardening skills for beginners
Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Horticulture Technicians
 Date: 2020-2021


Audience: Public
Project or Activity: Virtual programming, TV segments (Garden to Table, Fridays in the Garden Show), Monthly Gardening Radio show on 91.7 WVXU.
 Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Horticulture Technicians, FCS, Statewide Horticulture Agents

Date: 2020-2021





Success Stories

Horticulture Staying Strong

Author: Sarah Imbus

Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home

How we work, were we buy our essential food items, how and where students connect to school and how we juggle our daily lives all while following state guidelines has put a lot of stress to many of our Kentucky families and communities during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Our two Kentucky land grant Universities, Kentucky State and University of Kentucky have continued to be a dependable resource for communities and families during these difficult times.  In Campbell County, we have engaged

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Campbell County Wednesday Horticulture Series

Author: Sarah Imbus

Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home

Campbell County Extension continued to follow guidelines and procedures as it related to programming during the COVID-19 outbreak. As essential employees and assets to our county, we strived to implement programming and resources throughout the county according to the university administration and county guidelines. As warmer weather was approaching, Campbell County horticulture department planned a weekly hour and a half Zoom prog

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Urban Youth Programming at Mentoring Plus

Author: Sarah Imbus

Major Program: Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy

Program Director, Amy Sammons, of Mentoring Plus located in Newport Kentucky, reached out to Campbell County Extension Horticulture agent for resources. After initial meetings and conversations, an organic partnership blossomed, and plans were drafted to implement a youth program for at risk youth in the urban sector of the county. Campbell County program areas of 4-H youth development, horticulture, family consumer science, and SNAP-Education, quickly tea

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