Success StoryGrowing your own Vegetable and Fruit Publications
Growing your own Vegetable and Fruit Publications
Author: Richard Durham
Planning Unit: Horticulture
Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Home horticulture information relating to vegetable and fruit gardening has been a focus of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Program for many years. However, recent efforts have focused on developing publications in this area for low-literacy audiences. From 2018 until 2025 the Nutrition Education Program has partnered with the Department of Horticulture to develop 22 such publications including two general (Preparing your Garden and Composting) and 20 crop-specific publications (Tomatoes, Basil, Rhubarb, Blackberries, etc.) Six of these publications have also been translated to Spanish. Five additional crop-specific and one general publication (Soil Sampling) are slated to be published in 2025. These publications are highlighted on the Nutrition Education Program Plan-Eat-Move web site (https://www.planeatmove.com/get-moving/growing-your-own-garden/) where they are available to the public. The publications are also used by county staff engaged in Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Programs (EFNEP) and consumer and home horticulture programing.
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