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Home Horticulture - Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy
Home Horticulture
Stolz, Turner, Pilcher
Horticulture, Consumer and Home
Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy
Master Gardener
Nutrition and Food Systems General
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.
Provide the opportunity for healthy, sustainable food, and act as a catalyst for community engagement and developing partnerships.
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.
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).
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:2021-2022
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: schools, local government, rehabilitation facilities, non-profit organizations
Timeline:2021-2022
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: community garden programs
Timeline: 2021-2022
Audience: Community Gardeners
Project or Activity: Organic gardening classes, food safety classes, cooking classes, small space gardening
Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Horticulture Technicians, Master Gardener Volunteers
Date: 2021-2022
Audience: Horticulture Therapy and community gardens
Project or Activity: Lakeside Educational gardens, KY proud recipes and harvesting techniques
Inputs: Horticulture Agent, Horticulture Technicians, Master Gardener Volunteers
Date: 2021-2022
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: 2021-2022
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 AgentsDate: 2021-2022
Audience: Newport Youth Leadership Program
Project or Activity: Build agriculture awareness
Curriculum: Agriculture Awareness, Farm Tours, Farm to School
Inputs: Agent, Brighton Center Youth Leadership Program, Host Farms/Farmers
Date: Summer 2021
Audience: 5th-12th graders
Project or Activity: Hydroponics and urban growing
Content or Curriculum: Soil less Growing Systems
Inputs: Extension Staff, Extension Board
Date: 2021-2022
Author: Sarah Imbus
Major Program: Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy
Teaching youth living in our urban communities about traditional agriculture, the science of where our food comes from, and basic cooking skills is one of the core goals of the Campbell County Cooperative Extension Service that was identified from our county assessment report. 4-H youth development agent, agriculture agent, horticulture agent, and nutrition education assistant teamed together to host a 4 day youth program for 15 youth from Newport Brighton Center. These youth are participa
Author: Sarah Imbus
Major Program: Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy
Third grade students at Woodfill Elementary in Fort Thomas, KY have sparked an interest in learning more about food production, farmers market, and basic economics so that they can put forth their knowledge with a grade wide cumulative school project: Access to local, affordable, fresh, nutritional food to everyone in our communities and families. Currently the school has 8 raised beds which have been used for programming related to plant botany, plant life cycle, and pollinators utilizing
Author: Sarah Imbus
Major Program: Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy
Three years ago, 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 that would meet their mission, which is to empower disadvantaged youth and their families to fu
