Author: Sarah Congleton
Planning Unit: Montgomery County CES
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Plan of Work: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
People are facing numerous challenges because the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across Kentucky so quickly. The Governor has restricted access to various locations throughout Kentucky that are labeled nonessential and has issued a stay at home order. The result of the stay at home order means that people have shuffled their schedules and daily tasks immensely and are now either working remotely or not working at all. As weeks pass, one of the challenges that people are seeing is how to entertain their families. To help with this growing problem of how to educate at home and how to live healthy at home, the Montgomery County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent and Agriculture Agent developed a “Program To Go” program that allows parents/guardians to stop by and pick up an educational program, go back to their home, and complete the lesson or activity together. The program was a gardening kit that offered gardening equipment, seeds, and information on how to get started. There were 50 families who received the gardening kit and over 50% of the participants are now growing their own produce. The Extension Office received great reviews from the Gardening Program.
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