Fayette County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021





1031 - Horticulture, Consumer and Home
1031.1) 8000

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

1031.12) 4000

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



Success Stories

Gardening Classes on Demand

Author: Jamie Dockery

Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home

Recent COVID related events left many people working from home. The increased time at home and social distancing measures created a new surge of interest in home vegetable gardening and food preservation. In an effort to deliver our information to people in a home setting we had to shift to video classes via Youtube. The horticulture agent and technician began filming short, informative Youtube videos of specific gardening topics.  To date our channel features 100 short videos which have be

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Gardener's Toolbox goes Virtual

Author: Jamie Dockery

Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home

Recent COVID related events left many people working from home. The increased time at home and social distancing measures created a new surge of interest in home vegetable gardening and food preservation. In an effort to deliver our information to people in a home setting we had to shift to video classes via Youtube. The horticulture agent and technician began filming entire classes for our Gardener's Toolbox series.  In the past year our Toolbox class videos have reached over 2808 &nbs

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Growing Community

Author: Jamie Dockery

Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home

Each year the Fayette County Extension horticulture program host a Growing Community event where we provide resources and information to individuals to encourage back yard food production. The pandemic brought food insecurity to many residents in our community and we specifically market this program in food insecure areas to reach as many people as possible. We dramatically increased our supply of garden kits to help offset this need for 2021. Saturday May 1st, our horticulture team with support

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