Author: Elijah Wilson
Major Program: Community Strategic Planning
As part of an on-going community strategic planning initiative focused on communication and collaboration, the Burkesville/Cumberland County Industrial Authority, Cumberland County Fiscal Court, City Council of Burkesville, Cumberland County Chamber of Commerce, and the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service worked together with the help of professional consultation to develop a community brand and identity that will result in an improved visual presence on the worldwide web
Author: Deborah Stumbo
Pike County has endured multiple disasters over the last few decades. Fall of 2019, the Pike County Extension Service and the Pike County Emergency Management completed a 2 year state wide project on planning for disasters, with Pike County being the host/Pilot Test group. Floods, wind storms, train wrecks, tucking wrecks, and many others. Pike Extension and the Pike County Emergency Management, along with a University team, decided to host and take part in all the planning, implemen
Author: Roberta Dwyer
With a federal grant, a team of University of Kentucky Extension professionals (Roberta Dwyer, Andrea Higdon, Melissa Morgan, Kandice Williams) leads a group developing an exercise for local emergency managers. LADDERS is a Local Approach to Discussion-Based Disaster Exercises and Readiness that is geared towards pets, livestock and disaster preparedness. This disaster preparedness game helps local emergency managers and animal stakeholders work through real-world scenarios with the goal of appl
Author: Nicole Breazeale
In August of 2019, CLD Extension faculty member, Dr. Nicole Breazeale, met with Horticulture Agent, Dr. Annette Heisdorffer and the Executive Committee of the Green River Area Extension Master Gardeners Association (GRAEMGA). The group was struggling with three inter-related issues: (1) the need to develop a Strategic Plan, but with insufficient buy-in to include widespread participation; (2) the need to evaluate the impacts of this diverse program in order to better direct their limited
Author: Paul Andrew Rideout
Urban trees: Keeping Downtown BeautifulUrban landscape can be a struggle to maintain and plan for long term beautification. Many municipality budgets don’t allow for proper urban tree management. Early in 2019, the Henderson Downtown Initiative contacted the Extension Office to help with a few selected streetscape tree maintenance issues. Several conversations over the next month led to identifying the need to better manage the health and replacement of the downtown trees
Author: Shad Baker
The challenge of transitioning the economy and resources of Eastern Kentucky to a sustainable and vibrant scene; one that accentuates the abundant natural resources and the creativity and work-ethic of a people rooted in the rugged mountains is worthy of the state's land-grant and outreach arm, the UK Cooperative Extension Service. In partnership with local business, healthcare, education and political leaders, the Letcher County Extension Service has sought to more fully capture the potenti
Author: Jennifer Cole
Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service empowers communities to respond to challenges they face and reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic has been no different. One of the first challenges identified was that health care facilities throughout the state did not have enough personal protective equipment for frontline workers to do their jobs during the pandemic. Cooperative Extension staff collaborated with Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) across the state to help address the lac
Author: Trent Adkins
Author: Kathryn Wimberley
SITUATION:Kentucky is home to 85,500 farms, tied with Oklahoma as the 4th ranking state in the number of farms (National Agriculture Statistics Service, 2012). The average farm size in Kentucky 164 acres, compared to the national average of 421 acres (National Agriculture Statistics Services, 2012.) Between 2000 and 2012, the Bluegrass State had a 6.7% decrease in the number of acres of farmland, which is the greatest percentage decrease of any state in the country (Census of Agriculture, 2012).
