Extension
It Starts With Us
| 1031 - Home & Consumer Horticulture | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1031.1) | 1852 |
Number of participants engaged in home and consumer horticulture programming |
Author: Amanda Sears
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Liberty Place is a women’s drug rehabilitation center located in Madison County, Kentucky. Residents live at the facility. The average stay is nine months.For the past four years, the Madison County Cooperative Extension Agent for Horticulture has worked with residents on a gardening project at the facility. The Agent does an initial gardening class for interested participants in March. After the classroom portion of the meeting, residents get hands on experience by planting seeds and plan
Author: Amanda Sears
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Due to an increased interest in home and consumer horticulture from their listeners, WUKY (91.3 FM), the University of Kentucky’s public radio station, approached the Agriculture Communications Department in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment about creating a gardening program for their station. Jeff Franklin, Agriculture Communications Specialist, contacted the horticulture agents in central Kentucky to see if they would be willing to record sessions to be aired on the stati
Author: Amanda Sears
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
The Madison County Horticulture Agent offered a class in December teaching how to make a holiday centerpiece using greenery that can be harvested from your landscape. The Agent worked with two master gardeners, each with a background in floral design, who taught the class. The master gardeners demonstrated basic concepts in floral design. After their demonstration, the participants had the opportunity to make their own centerpieces using greenery that the Agent and master gardener club had
