Leslie County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025
| 1031 - Horticulture, Consumer and Home | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1031.1) | 143 |
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) | 76 |
Number of people who used Extension information to make decisions on site selection, varieties, and /or maintenance |
Success Stories
Growing More Than Just Gardens with Grow Appalachia and Leslie County Extension Service.
Author: Michelle Brock
Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home
In the hills of Eastern Kentucky, families struggled to provide fresh produce for their household. Limited access to grocery stores and high food prices made healthy meals difficult to come by.That changed when they joined Grow Appalachia. More than forty families put in their applications, but only 40 could be accepted per the grant. The program provided these families with flats of vegetables for both spring and summer, heirloom seeds, seed potatoes, onion sets, hand tools, and hands-on traini
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