Extension
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| 1021 - Local Food Systems | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1021.1) | 0 |
Number of producers who can accurately identify agricultural food products that extend beyond the growing season |
| 1021.2) | 0 |
Number of producers reporting more confidence in marketing/selling food products |
| 1021.3) | 0 |
Number of producers who were successful in marketing/selling food products |
| 1021.5) | 0 |
Number of residents indicating a willingness to support local food markets as a result of awareness raised through Extension programming |
| 1021.4) | 100 |
Number of residents reporting an increase in accessing fresh, local foods |
| 1021.6) | 15 |
Number of producers who were encouraged by Extension programming to seek additional training on food safety ( FAP, FSMA, etc.) |
| 1021.7) | 15 |
Number of producers who were successfully trained by Extension on food safety (GAP or FSMA) |
| 1021.8) | 0 |
Number of producers who successfully obtained value-added processing certification (HBM, HBP, BPCS, etc.) through Extension programming |
Author: Jamie Dockery
Major Program: Local Food Systems
The Fayette Extension Horticulture program has held a Growing Community event for the last 12 years to promote vegetable gardening to under served audiences. Traditionally this has taken the form of short training sessions offered on a Saturday in May with the reward for attending 4 session being a bag of gardening resources, seeds, and transplants. It has always been very popular. The Covid pandemic left us unable to follow our usual training approach. We decided to just give away the garden ki
