Extension
It Starts With Us
| 1031 - Home & Consumer Horticulture | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1031.1) | 315624 |
Number of participants engaged in home and consumer horticulture programming |
Author: Kelly Jackson
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Kentucky Horticulture agents started the Horticulture Webinar Wednesdays as an alternative to in-person horticulture lessons. The live webinars are Wednesdays at 2 p.m. ET /1 p.m. CT. Utilizing a volunteer scheduling website, agents, specialists and other experts were recruited to present a 30-minute lesson to the general public. All the presentations are recorded, then posted to the Kentucky Hort News website along with the slides, notes, and
Author: Kelly Jackson
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Each year, several counties across the state participate in the bedding plant trials. These trials consist of new varieties of flowering annuals that have just been released onto the horticulture market. The purpose of the trials is to see how well these new varieties of plants perform in a garden or landscape setting. For the trial garden, there are 20 different varieties of annual bedding plants with ten plants per variety for a total of 200 plants. The Christian County trial
Author: Kelly Jackson
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Since 2015, a team of Kentucky Horticulture Extension Agents have produced a 4 to 6-page newsletter every two months that is distributed to all Agriculture and Natural Resource Agents and Horticulture Agents across Kentucky. Agents utilize the newsletter in two ways – either sending it out to their clientele in its entirety or using articles (contributed by agents and specialists) in their own newsletters or social media. Over twenty editions of the Kentucky Hort Newsletter have been produ
