Our county extension office have just had their 2^nd Farm to Fork event Community Dinner in the town center on the square. It is an amalgamation of different entities the County extension office, the Kentucky department of agriculture, the local food pantry. The organizer was the Agriculture and Natural resources agent supported by the other extension staff including myself the Nutrition Education Program Assistant. My role was to work with the benefactors of money raised by the event the Local food pantry. The volunteer workers from the pantry were the people that helped prepare, cook and serve most of the meal except for the meat. I also worked with the farmers to get there produce for us to cook. I found this a teaching moment for these people some of who were x clients of mine and were receiving food boxes from the pantry themselves. So they went from filling food boxes to planning a balanced meal and we showed them how to work out how much produce we needed to have to feed 80+ people. They had to time the preparation and cooking of the products. So that everything would be ready at the same time. Not to forget the food safety in food handling which we did ahead of the event. The extension provided them with aprons, hair nets and gloves they were very proud of themselves. Many of the volunteers asked “If we were going to hold another one next year” because they wanted to help again. Without these people most of whom were in their 70’s it would have been very difficult to do this and they realized just how much is being grown in our county so they can spread the word for the farmers and farmers markets in our little town.