Wolfe County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2021 - Jun 30, 2022





1031 - Horticulture, Consumer and Home
1031.12) 0

Number of people who used Extension information to make decisions on site selection, varieties, and /or maintenance  

1031.1) 45

Number of people who gained knowledge in consumer and home  horticulture including: native plants, disease and pests, composting, site analysis, and proper maintenance



Success Stories

Healthy Eating, Exercise, & Growing Lettuce

Author: Heather Graham

Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home

Healthy Eating, Exercise, & Growing Lettuce

Both Wolfe County SNAP assistants and the ANR agent partnered to deliver a program to all students at Bethany Christian School about healthy eating, exercising, and growing their own food. Each session began with the children learning about the life cycle of plants and included an activity for the kids to be a growing seed/plant. Then the students made their own milk jug greenhouse. They learned how to care for their lettuce, how greenhouses help extend the growing season, and were given a growt

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