Success StorySmall Fruit Initiative



Small Fruit Initiative

Author: Shawn Wright

Planning Unit: Horticulture

Major Program: Horticulture, Commercial

Outcome: Initial Outcome

The Kentucky Horticulture Council has provided funding to expand the production of commercial small fruits.  Jeff Howard is a small grower in Breathitt County that has been a recipient of this funding and has established new blueberry plantings, gooseberry and currant plantings, and has purchased a label maker and other suppkies for his enterprise.  He has increased his production and quality and  his farm has become more economically sustainable.






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