Success StoryGardening Series



Gardening Series

Author: Clay Stamm

Planning Unit: Rowan County CES

Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home

Plan of Work: Horticulture, Livestock, Forages, Agriculture

Outcome: Initial Outcome

                As the pandemic restrictions began to lift in early 2021, my self and the Clark County FCS Agent began to brainstorm programing ideas for our first in-person meetings for the post-pandemic world. As we thought through this, one obvious topic came to mind. In an attempt to address food security concerns brought on by the pandemic, we decided to host a gardening series, focusing on growing, processing, and preserving your own vegetables at home.

 

It was decided we would conduct a 5-night series to take place over the duration of the summer to cover timely topics of the gardening and food preservation seasons. Topics would include, preparing to plant your garden, maintaining the garden, garden harvest, food preservation, and post-harvest garden care.

                We were able to advertise and have approximately 20 participants at each of these sessions. This was a great collaboration effort by the ANR and FCS agents in Clark county as well as the Clark County Master Gardeners.






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