Author: Luke Fries
Planning Unit: Nelson County CES
Major Program: Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
Plan of Work: Healthy Homes and Healthy People
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Nelson County Extension Agents, from all areas of programming, teamed up with both FFA Chapters in Nelson County in a quest to host the 4th Annual Ag Day & 5K. In 2019, committees decided to continue the Farm to Table Breakfast and Community Networking Event for the second year. The event began and ended at the Nelson County Fairgrounds and the Breakfast was hosted at the newly rennovated Samuels Hall, a partnership grant formed and executed by the Nelson County Fair Board and Nelson County Extension. There was room for families and young children to walk around the grounds and discover some beautiful and fun things about agriculture, including music, an agriculture word hunt, a sandbox filled with corn, and bag toss, ag olympics, farmscapes and tractor parade among many other activities. Local farmers brought many animals including rabbits, hogs, herding dogs and beef cattle. Proceeds in excess of $1,200 were split among the three youth organizations, Nelson County FFA, Thomas Nelson FFA, and Nelson County 4-H. 40 runners participated, 250 attended the breakfast and over 450 people joined for the event. This event is anticipated to be an annual event.
The run encouraged utilizing the outdoors and local trails for exercise. Community organizations, members, leaders, and participants supported the respective youth organizations in furthering the investment in Nelson County’s foreseeable, sustainable, future: the young farmers. The Nelson County Homemakers sponsored a booth and will be donating a quilt they constructed to the Bardstown Honor Flight. This year, the breakfast will include a "Country Ham Scholarship Auction" which will support Nelson County 4-H. The main goal of the event as a totality is to encourage physical activity, nutritious foods, and to create awareness of the importance of sustainable agriculture in Kentucky communities as well as around the globe.
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