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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu

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Contact Information

Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu




Fiscal Year:
Jul 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2019


Success StoryCommunity Garden



Community Garden

Author: John Fourqurean

Planning Unit: Trigg County CES

Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture

Plan of Work: Home Horticulture

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

As McLean County has several small communities spread throughout the county and fresh produce is not always available to lower income households, the McLean County Cooperative extension Service, the Agriculture Extension Agent, Family and Consumer Science Agent, 4-H Youth and the McLean County FFA teamed up in a collaborative effort to expand and upgrade a community garden in the Beech Grove community of McLean County. New raised beds were built by the local FFA chapter and soil and other amendments were added to the existing as well as the new beds at the Beech Grove Volunteer Fire department. Plants and soil were donated by several businesses in McLean County.


4-H members then planted a variety of produce that anyone in that community can make use of with no cost to them. Community members then take care of and harvest the crops grown from the raised beds. Regular trips are made to that location by the Ag Extension agent to share techniques of home gardening with community members. Thus introducing home gardening techniques to clientele that may not have been touched by extension programming.






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