Author: Roger Mollette
Planning Unit: Martin County CES
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
Outcome: Initial Outcome
The Martin County Extension Service works with The Grow Appalachia organization and together they address food insecurity for families focused on organic gardening practices.The Grow Appalachia program has successfully created opportunities for fresh produce to be grown and used/preserved by families in the program.
This program allowed the Extension Service to assist twenty-three families to produce and preserve food produced from their gardens. Many of these families could not have had a garden without help from the grant.
Classes have been offered to the group from planning the garden to preserving the food with most expenses covered by the grant.
Great comments like: ”Thanks, we could not have had a garden without your help”. However, the impact of the program will not be known until the production records from each gardener is final.
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