Success StoryHealthy lifestyle choices gardening
Healthy lifestyle choices gardening
Author: Ted Johnson
Planning Unit: Lee County CES
Major Program: Local Food Systems
Plan of Work: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
Lee County Kentucky families have a median family income around $21,000.00 per year, poor health, and very little access to a wide variety of healthy foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables. We at the Lee County Extension Office have addressed this issue with the introduction of fruit and vegetable production utilizing raised beds. The last six years we have conducted over 40 programs, educating participants on construction, management, soils, vegetable plant varieties, disease and insect management, season extension, irrigation, and many more production practices. We have had over 2,500 individuals participate of view the demonstration raised beds in the past six years. Around 35 new raised beds have been constructed throughout the county in the past six years. From the surveys we have conducted around 28,000 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables have been produced from these newly constructed raised beds.
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