Martin County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2019
| 1031 - Home & Consumer Horticulture | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1031.1) | 75 |
Number of participants engaged in home and consumer horticulture programming |
Success Stories
Earth Day
Author: Roger Mollette
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
The Martin County Extension Service is well aware of the importance of educating the youth of Martin County on all the different aspects of agriculture. For the seventh consecutive year we have provided plant science activities at every elementary school during Earth Week. This year we added the Middle school to the programming efforts. We also added partners to the program to make it more expansive. We were joined by Martin County Farm Bureau and the Soil Conservation District This year 1,100 y
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Grow Appalachia-Martin County
Author: Roger Mollette
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
The Martin County Extension Service works with The Grow Appalachia organization and together they address food insecurity for families focused on organic gardening practices.The Grow Appalachia program has successfully created opportunities for fresh produce to be grown and used/preserved by families in the program. This program allowed the Extension Service to assist twenty-three families to produce and preserve food produced from their gardens. Many of these families could not have
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