Author: Douglas Shepherd
Planning Unit: Hardin County CES
Major Program: Community Vitality and Leadership - ANR
Plan of Work: Activating Volunteer Leaders through Extension Programs
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
Farm-City Day 2022 was the first in a new format. Previously Extension representing the rural segment, and Chamber of Commerce representing the urban segment, hosted the event in alternating years. Chamber's Executive Director didn't see the value in continuing the program and basically backed out of participating. As a result, leadership contacted county government officials as well as the mayors of the incorporated cities and all stated the program was important and valuable and that they would support/sponsor in the future. So the Extension planning committee was expanded to include representatives from each government entities, and annually the program would provide an urban tour and a rural tour. Event planned and conducted on November 15th, with some 50+ persons participating in the tour of the Patton Leadership Museum on Fort Knox, and over 125 present at the noon luncheon where the Elizabethtown Mayor was the featured speaker and spoke on the importance of agriculture to Hardin County both now and in the future in light of the Blue Oval battery plants being built in Glendale. Days events received high praise from all involved.
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