Home Horticulture - Access to Local ProducePlan of Work

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Campbell County CES

Title:
Home Horticulture - Access to Local Produce
MAP:
Home Horticulture
Agents Involved:
Imbus, Turner, Koester, Thompson
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Horticulture, Commercial
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Local Food Systems
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Integrated Pest Management
Situation:

Our county assessment report indicates that many residents have requested information to gain knowledge about, but not limited to: food education, youth gardening, small scale farming, access to fresh produce, farm to table programming, and farm education for urban youth.

Long-Term Outcomes:

Strengthen existing markets to offer more diversity of products, increase foot traffic to markets and make them a dynamic destination with events, activities, and educational programs (i.e. food demonstrations) to attract customers and visitors. 

Intermediate Outcomes:

Provide access to fresh produce to families throughout the county especially in the urban community; decrease hunger; increase food education programs on healthy and safe food preparation methods with produce grown at home and/or purchased from local markets. Increase average fruit and vegetable consumption by one or more servings per day. 

Initial Outcomes:

Diversify farmers crop production

Collaborating with FCS and SNAP-ED program areas by offering tastings and events to increase customer base and access to local produce

Learn to grow, prepare, and preserve food

Learn a new recipe

Incorporate unfamiliar foods into a healthy lifestyle


Evaluation:

Long-Term Outcomes: Increase customer knowledge of healthier cooking options with more fruits and vegetables

Indicator: Increase awareness of cooking with fruits and vegetables

Method: Farmers Market Food Demonstrations and share KY Proud recipes

Timeline: 2023-2024

 

Intermediate Outcomes: Increase access to fresh produce to families

Indicator: Increase market awareness 

Method: Market advertising, youth garden programing

Timeline: 2023-2024

 

Initial Outcomes: Awareness of health benefits by an increase in physical activity and eating more fruits and vegetables  

Indicator: Adopting knowledge to make better lifestyle choices 

Method: Walking program in fall with FCS, food deomos, recipes at markets

Timeline: 2023-2024

 

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Market Consumers

Project or Activity: Fresh produce samples

Content or Curriculum: KY proud or Plate it Up recipes 

Inputs: Hort agent, FCS agents, SNAP-Ed, KDA

Timeline: Summer-Fall 2023

 

Audience: Preschool

Project or Activity: Flowerbuds-improve reading readiness skills while gaining knowledge about fruits and vegetables

Content or Curriculum: LEAP curriculum, FCS and hort publications

Inputs: Hort and FCS

Timeline: 2023-2024


Audience: Market Consumers

Project or Activity: Fresh produce samples

Content or Curriculum: KY proud or Plate it Up recipes 

Inputs: Hort agent, FCS agents, SNAP-Ed, KDA

Timeline: Summer-Fall 2023

 

Audience: Preschool

Project or Activity: Flowerbuds-improve reading readiness skills while gaining knowledge about fruits and vegetables

Content or Curriculum: LEAP curriculum, FCS and hort publications

Inputs: Hort and FCS

Timeline: 2023-2024


Audience: 5th-12th graders 

Project or Activity: Hydroponics , Urban gardening

Content or Curriculum:  Soil less  growing systems, growing tower

Inputs:  Hort, 4H, SNAP

Date: 2023-2024




Success Stories

TV Series: In the Garden

Author: Sarah Imbus

Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home

Providing research based information in a way to meet Extensions clients’ needs can be particularly challenging in urban counties. The National Urban Extension Leaders (NUEL), (https://nuel.extension.org ), shares some challenges that  Urban Extension has when sharing information to their communities. NUEL shares that Extension needs to have presence and understand communities to have successful Extension programming. In addition, responding to the demographic trend(s) of urbanization

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