Success StoryState-wide Hort News



State-wide Hort News

Author: Kelly Jackson

Planning Unit: Christian County CES

Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture

Plan of Work: Insure Water quality through adoption of approved Best Management Practices.

Outcome: Initial Outcome

Since 2015, a team of Kentucky Horticulture Extension Agents have produced a 4 to 6-page newsletter every two months that is distributed to all Agriculture and Natural Resource Agents and Horticulture Agents across Kentucky. Agents utilize the newsletter in two ways – either sending it out to their clientele in its entirety or using articles (contributed by agents and specialists) in their own newsletters or social media. Over twenty editions of the Kentucky Hort Newsletter have been produced. In late 2018, in response to agents requests to make the articles more accessible for use in social media, a new blog website was launched www.KentuckyHortNews.com. All 131 articles from the previous and current newsletters were loaded to the site along with images in a way that is easily utilized for social media. The site has received over 8,500 views since November 2018. Viewers are also able to subscribe to the site and received an email update when new articles are posted. The number of subscribers has grown to 99 and the email receives a 66.3% open rate.  






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