Success StoryBuilding Better Gardeners
Building Better Gardeners
Author: Jamie Dockery
Planning Unit: Fayette County CES
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Plan of Work: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices and Citizen Education
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
The Fayette County Extension Horticulture program offers a series of educational programs each year called The Gardener’s Toolbox. The agent teaches about a subject and provides Extension recommended seeds, plants or other resources. 2018 consisted of over 40 sessions seated 1700 residents. 2019 offers another 40 classes and we have registered roughly 4000 slots to date. When we followed up with participants from 2018 we found Eighty-five percent of those responding indicated they had more confidence in their ability to make proper gardening decisions as a result of these classes. In addition, 38% indicated they were saving money and growing more of their own food utilizing extension information from these classes.
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