2021 How did your Garden Grow with the Free Seed for your Garden 

During spring of 2021 and after a yearlong of Covid-19, the Rowan County Extension FCS Agent team up with the Rowan County ANR Instructor at the High School.  This year we want to increase the knowledge of our youth on the importance of growing healthy vegetables with their family and the importance of learning how to survive from the earth. The Extension Office purchased 150 pounds of Trucker Sweet Corn, 150 pounds of Onion Sets and 50 pounds of Top Crop Green Bean seed; Caudill Seed Company donated 150 pounds of Horticulture Beans (soup beans). 

The Agriculture students began with weighting up the seed into 12 oz portions in zip lock bags; the onion sets divided into one-pound weights in paper bags.  Signs where created and business was ready.  The students set up in the cafeteria and gave out garden information and free seed to every student or teacher that wanted to grow a garden this year.  Four hundred students and teachers took seed to start their 2021 garden with information on how to grow healthy vegetables.  

40% of the students stated after growing season that the seed they planted did produce food for their family.

10% of the students assisted with canning food over the summer.