Success StoryGrowing Community



Growing Community

Author: Jamie Dockery

Planning Unit: Fayette County CES

Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home

Plan of Work: Green and Sustainable Living

Outcome: Initial Outcome

Each year the Fayette County Extension horticulture program host a Growing Community event where we provide resources and information to individuals to encourage back yard food production. The pandemic brought food insecurity to many residents in our community and we specifically market this program in food insecure areas to reach as many people as possible. We dramatically increased our supply of garden kits to help offset this need for 2021. Saturday May 1st, our horticulture team with support from 4-H and  Nutrition education assistants, divided our parking lot into 4 lanes to accommodate the crowd. Overall, we handed out over 500 individual garden kits to families for their home vegetable garden. We included our guide to growing vegetables as well as several transplants and types of seeds. This program serves as an initial introduction to the Cooperative Extension Service for many families and we love to see new clients return to participate in other programs we offer. We eagerly look forward to late summer when we have asked the participants to share pictures and stories of their garden successes. 






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