Matt Barton
By EDITH LOVETT Jul 17, 2021
Edith Lovett Pulaski County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences Matt Barton
The Pulaski County Fair is in town. Be sure you visit the fair for excitement for the entire family. The Open Class for the public is always a way you and others can be involved. Pick up a Fair Book to see all the different categories you can entire items in. Fair books are available at the Extension Office and at the Lake Cumberland Farmers Market.
For competition, the items must be brought to the Fair Grounds on Wednesday, July 21 after 5:00 p.m. and until 8:00 p.m., or on Thursday Morning, July 22 from 9:00 to 11:00. The Ugly Lamp Contest is always a popular category. You can enter your ugly lamp in the Born Ugly or Make Ugly category. Cash prizes are awarded of $50, $30 and 20.
July is Kentucky-grown Cut Flower Month
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Longstanding Extension Partnership Provides County s Most Vulnerable With Nutrition Education
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Jan 25, 2021
LEXINGTON, Ky., – University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension agents and Ag Equine Programs will host a virtual Pastures Please!! pasture management workshop from 6 to 7:30 p.m. EST on Jan. 26.
Horse owners and farm managers will have the opportunity to listen to several expert talks, including information about managing carbohydrates in the equine diet, new herbicides and their effectiveness on weed control and wise investments for pasture management.
“This year’s program is driven by the questions that come into extension and the challenges currently facing horse owners,” said Krista Lea, coordinator of the UK Horse Pasture Evaluation Program and one of the event organizers. “Managing carbohydrates is tough on owners but a common issue in horses today, and there is as much misinformation as there is information. We have several new pasture herbicides on the market that give managers new options, and now, more than ever, farms large and small are having to
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Concerns about food shortages and the dangers of grocery shopping during the pandemic drove more Kentuckians to try their hand at home gardening in 2020, according to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.
In a Kentucky Department of Agriculture survey of 230 garden growers, 45% gardened for the first time in 2020, up from 34 percent in 2019. Department spokesman Sean Southard said many people tried gardening for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“At the beginning of the pandemic, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture got a lot of questions from constituents about food supply and the safety and stability of our food supply, especially with some of the pressures we saw on our supply chain,” Southard said.