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Contacts

Team Contact
Stephen Greer
Extension Agent, Agriculture - Horticulture
Forsyth County Center
1450 Fairchild Rd
Winston-Salem, NC 27105
336-703-2850
stephen_greer@ncsu.edu

Project Coordinator
Joanna Massey Lelekacs
Horticultural Science
Box 7609
NCSU Campus
Raleigh, NC  27695
919-244-5269
joanna_lelekacs@ncsu.edu

See Also

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Year 1 Project Plans and Stories

Chatham County - School Garden
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Gaston County - Develop a Local Foods Strategic Plan that is Supported by the Community
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Guilford County - Community Garden
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Lee, Moore & Richmond Counties - Partner Presentation on Local Foods and Farm Tour
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Lenoir County - Farmers' Market Revitalization
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Swain County - Farmers' Market Revitalization
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

 

Year 2 Project Plans and Stories

Cleveland CountyBuilding Community Awareness and Involvement in the Local Food System
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians – Farmers' Market
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Forsyth County – Increasing Awareness of Community Garden/Farm
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Forsyth County/GreenXscapesCommunity/Educational Garden
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Greene County – Farmers' Market
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

Montgomery County – Farm Tour
 

Project Plan
Project Summary

 

Other CBFS Efforts

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SARE PDP Extension & Community Partnerships

FORSYTH COUNTY: Project Plan

 

Goals

  1. Improve marketing side of The Children’s Home farm operation and Food Bank garden.
  2. Education of students in the home including self-esteem building efforts.

 

Key Sub Activities

Outcomes

Evidence of Activities, their Quality & Outcomes

  1. Conduct:
    • Planning meetings
    • Discover Agriculture Day Tour
    • Meetings
    • Workshops
  2. Develop:
    • Brochure
    • Information Signs
    • Information Poster
    • Curriculum
  3. Train:
    • Volunteers and Leaders
  4. Partner:
    • Alternative School
    • Food Bank Garden
    • Children’s Home Garden
  5. Provide:
    • Educational Instruction (youth & adults)
    • Materials
  6. Media:
    • Arrange visits to sites

 

Learning:

  • Increased knowledge of plants
  • Understanding garden management plan
  • Increased outreach about community gardens

Production:

  • Increased growing capacity
  • Improving growing efficiency

Partnerships:

  • Building consensus within groups
  • Expanded food pallet with consumers

Action:

  • Increase knowledge of volunteers, students & consumers
  • Increase/improve decision making skills of participants in gardens

Reporting:

  • Increase data collection of gardens
  • Increase record keeping
  • Increase volunteer and staff involvement

 

Pre- and post-survey of plant knowledge

# outreach events about community gardens

 

# lbs. produced (tracked across year)

 

Pre- and post-survey of vegetables grown and eaten

 

# volunteers involved
# staff involved

 

# youth engaged (pre and post project)
Acreage in production (pre and post)
$ to farmers (pre and post)
# families receiving produce through the Food Bank garden

# partners involved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funding for this initiative provided through the USDA, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Professional Development Program.