The 2018-2019 Kentucky Extension Homemakers Association program of work for Environment, Housing and Energy is "The Buzz about Bees."  The goal is that  KEHA members would learn why bees are important to our environment and ways to encourage bees to inhabit local areas. In the Spring of 2019 the Edmonson County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent created and taught a homemaker leader lesson titled "Honey Bees & Pollinator Gardens" in the Mammoth Cave Area utilizing researched based resources. Forty two homemakers attended the leader training in Barren and Warren County.  

Written program evaluations indicated that:

• 27 homemakers planned to plant a pollinator garden
• 9 planned to create housing for native bees
• 24 planned to provide a water source for pollinators.

One Edmonson County Homemaker, took the information provided in the lesson back to her 4-H Club at Kyrock Elementary. The  4-H Club  renovated school landscaping into pollinator gardens in June 2019. The Family & Consumer Sciences Agent provided seeds, gloves and garden trowels from UK Health Care to help complete the project. The club members planted zinnia seeds, and other various plant seeds to attract pollinators.