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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