Barren County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2019





4011 - Agriculture 4-H Core Curriculum
4011.4) 1930

Number of youth who are more aware of local farmer’s markets and community gardens

4011.2) 33

Number of youth that can keep production, performance or financial records on their 4-H agriculture projects

4011.1) 4042

Number of youth who demonstrate a skill that was learned and/or improved by participating in a 4-H ANR project, program, event or activity

4011.3) 1931

Number of youth who understands the role of agriculture in the production of food and fiber



Success Stories

A Mooing Experience!!!

Author: Paula Tarry

Major Program: Agriculture 4-H Core Curriculum

Mitch Daniels, Contributing columnist of Washington Post, June 11, 2019 wrote in his article  “In farm children, I see virtues that one sees too rarely these days” “Along with the rise of women and the expansion of civil rights, the most important social transformation of America’s first quarter-millennium has been the triumph of modern agriculture over famine and the ceaseless, backbreaking effort simply to feed one’s self that had been the dominant fact

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Coming Back to America

Author: Paula Tarry

Major Program: Agriculture 4-H Core Curriculum

One of the goals of the LABO International exchange program states “KY 4-H Families and youth have the opportunity to make a lasting connection with a child from a different culture”.  That goal was achieved in the Spring, as one of the LABO students who had stayed eight years ago with a Barren County 4-H family returned for a two week visit.  He commented to the newspaper reporter that he “wanted to see the difference in us after so many years. Big difference.”

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