Extension
It Starts With Us
| 1031 - Home & Consumer Horticulture | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1031.1) | 1240 |
Number of participants engaged in home and consumer horticulture programming |
Author: Jessica Hopkins
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
With the ever changing outlook of production agriculture, many producers are looking to diversify their farming operations. Each year the Harrison County Extension Service holds a field day to highlight a producer in the county and to educate others on current trends, methods, and new and interesting enterprises available to producers.This year the Harrison County Farm Field Day was held at S&L Farms. S&L Farms is a highly diverse operation that produces 5 acres of
Author: Jessica Hopkins
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Many Harrison County residents grow a vegetable garden for their family. Although the majority of the county is rural, not everyone has a great deal of space for a garden. Clientele had expressed an interest in growing more vegetables in less amount of space. The situation was recognized by the Harrison County Horticulture Agent, which lead to offering a class on square foot gardening. Thirteen people attended the program in April 2019. When participan
Author: Jessica Hopkins
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Many of the questions that come into the office to the Horticulture Agent are related to fruit trees. Due to the interest in growing backyard fruit trees in Harrison County and due to the lack of knowledge of growing them, the Horticulture Advisory Council determined that a series of classes for fruit trees should be offered in the spring of 2019. A series of 4 classes were taught featuring topics related to fruit trees. Class one focused on Where, What, When and How to Plant Fruit T
