Extension
It Starts With Us
Using school garden and raised beds to facilitate nutrition education
Acessing nutritious foods
Glen Roberts, Terry Bertram, Danny Adams, KSU small farm, Toni Humble, Debbie Shepherd, Sherry Coffey, Seth Hart, Alta Hutchison
Horticulture, Commercial
Master Gardener
Nutrition and Food Systems General
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Students and their families are unaware of the value of growing and eating fresh fruits and vegetables. The local school system has suitable land on campus to grow a school garden and raised bed gardens. The local extension service has an ANR agent with expertise on how to grow a school garden and raised beds to harvest while school is in session.
Students and their families make lifestyle changes in their diet by choosing to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and to eat more locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables. Students and their families become healthier from the exercise and sunshine they get from growing their own fruits and vegetables. Students and their families are healthier because they choose to eat locally grown, fresh fruits and vegetables. Students and their families are financially more secure and have greater food security because they have learned the value of growing and consuming fresh fruits and vegetables. Some have learned how to produce more than they consume and to market the rest. Locally produced fruits and vegetables become an economic addition to our local economy.
Students grow and eat fresh fruits and vegetables.
Students learn the value of growing and eating fresh fruits and vegetables.
Initial Outcome: Students learn the value of growing and eating fresh fruits and vegetables
Indicator: Students exhibit proficiency in their increased knowledge of the value of growing and eating fresh fruits and vegetables
Method: Tests and testimonials
Timeline: 2023-2024
Intermediate Outcome: Students become involved in the production and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables
Indicator: They choose more fresh fruits and vegetables in the school lunch options they have
Method: Student and parent interviews, food service workers observations, more fruits and vegetables are consumed
Timeline: 2023-2024
Long-term Outcome: Students and their families are healthier as a result of growing and consuming fresh fruits and vegetables
Indicator: Fewer days of school missed, fewer days absent from work, fewer visits to the doctor
Method: surveys and interviews
Timeline: 2023-2024
Audience: Students and their families
Project or Activity: School Garden, Raised Beds
Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up, KY Proud recipes, Farm to school curriculum, FCS nutrition lessons, University of KY vegetable publications, specialists, and local agents and assistants.
Inputs: FCS and 4-H cooking demonstrations and cooking lessons, Inputs necessary to plan, plant, grow and harvest fruits and vegetables.
Date: 2023-2024
Audience: Students that eat in the school lunch program
Project or Activity: Grow and harvest produce to be used in the school food service program
Content or Curriculum: University of KY publications, recipes, and marketing principles
Inputs: Vocational Agriculture Program, FCS program, community volunteers, school food service program, 4-H program
Date: 2023-2024
Author: Glen Roberts
Major Program: Local Food Systems
The problemGrowing Fruit and Vegetables in a large school garden utilized by the school food serviceby Glen RobertsPlanning Unit: Wayne County CESMajor Program: Horticulture, CommercialCollaborators: Glen Roberts, ANR agent, Terry Bertram, ANR assistant, Danny Adams, KSU Small Farm Assistant, Justin Horton, FFA Adviser/VoAg instructor, Kathryn Tucker, School Food Service Director, Master Gardeners, VoAg and FCS students. Situation: Today`s youth are unaware how their food is grow
Author: Glen Roberts
Major Program: Horticulture, Commercial
The problemThe ANR Agent along with support from all program areas has entered into a partnership with the local school food service program to provide fresh sweet corn. The sweet corn is grown on the school campus and is processed by volunteers and students. Silking the sweet corn is the greatest labor requirement. The educational program responseWe found out from an ANR Agent in another county in Kentucky that her family had a sweet corn silking machine that they used to add
