New American Farmer
Fellow: Jeff Young, University of Kentucky Roadmap NAF Fellow Report:
The purpose of this project is to support the concept of a “beginning urban farmer” program, relevant and adaptable to those living in urban and suburban communities across the U.S., that empowers people to grow some of their food (based on land availability, geography, and climate) instead of being totally reliant on traditional food systems. This project is currently on an “on hold status” as the nature of the project is developing an inventory initially that does not require acceleration services.
Catalysts: Chuck Hibberd and Dyremple Marsh
Key Informant Services Program Design and Educational Technology
Supported the design and implementation of a Connect Extension Virtual Chat with this team with the objective of learning about similar programs across CES. Chat called "Teaching Urbanites Farming" was held on November 30th with 19 participants from 9 institutions representing 4 ECOP regions. End of chat survey results (n=5): 100% agreed or strongly agreed that the chat was relevant and/or provided valuable information for my work in Extension education. biggest takeaways included: ideas and resources shared, more work to do. Marketing and Communications It is the marketing and communications teams’ understanding that this project will discontinue being an NTAE project for 2022. The Extension Foundation CRM database will be leveraged to segment a list of potential interested CES professionals to participate in the virtual chat and ran an advertising campaign targeted at those individuals.
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