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

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