Author: Lori Bowling
Planning Unit: Boyd County CES
Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home
Plan of Work: Best Management Practices in Home Horticulture
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
The Boyd County Extension Horticulture program and the Boyd County Master Gardeners have hosted a Garden Shed Herb Day event each May since 2001. Over the years the event has grown from a backyard setting with 12 attendees to being held at the Extension Educational Facility with over 120 attendees. The educational topics each year are based on the herb of the year with speakers talking about how to grow herbs, their benefits and how to use them. In 2020 this event was cancelled due to Covid-19 but those individuals that attend the last event held in 2019 have contacted the Extension Office to voice their support that this program continue as soon as Covid allows. One individual gave a testimony that her first time attending the event was in 2019 and she found that the information she received was very useful. Since that event she has started an herb garden and started drying herbs and incorporating them in her daily diet to reduce her use of salt and to expand her meal option by making dishes more flavorful. Even her family has gotten on board with the use of herbs and are not helping her in raising the herbs and drying and preserving them for use during winter months.
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