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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
On a weekly basis Campbell County horticulture department provides horticulture therapy activities at the Fort Thomas VA medical facility for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and recently began working with veterans in the domiciliary care program. Men and women in these programs are in this program for rehabilitation, recovery, health maintenance, improved quality of life, and community integration in addition to specific treatment of medical condition, mental illnesses, addi
Author: Sarah Imbus
Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home
According to Harvard’s School of Public Health, “A diet rich in vegetables and fruits can lower blood pressure, reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, prevent some types of cancer, lower risk of eye and digestive problems, and have a positive effect upon blood sugar, which can help keep appetite in check.” Eating more fruits and vegetables could also help lessen the obesity rate, which in Campbell County is 36% (US Census Bureau).In order to address these issu
Author: Sarah Imbus
Major Program: Local Food Systems
70 third grade students participated in monthly horticulture activities focusing on mindfulness, farm to table, and horticulture science lessons. Students incorporated horticulture therapy lesson linking to mindfulness and knowledge about strategies on breathing techniques to help them focus on school tasks. In addition, the third grade classes cultivated a social science project for the school season which incorporated youth leadership, horticulture sciences, and team building exercises.
