REYNOLDSBURG, OH – The Ohio Section of Agriculture (ODA) and Ohio State University Extension offices are kicking off the 3rd 12 months of the Ohio Victory Gardens method. Due to superior demand from customers, the application is growing to incorporate 42 counties, up from 25 counties last year. Countless numbers of seed sample kits will be available for no cost to the community to get folks planting.
“In the third calendar year of our Victory Gardens plan, we are very pleased of the ground we have protected in reigniting Ohioans’ love for yard gardening, though lifting people’s spirits and re-instructing an vital lifestyle skill of escalating your individual meals, reported Dorothy Pelanda, Director of the Ohio Section of Agriculture.
“We’ve gone from distributing 3,000 seed kits in 6 counties in 2020 to distributing much more than 20,000 cost-free seed kits in 42 counties throughout the state this yr. Subsequent year, we program to extend all over again to get to even much more Ohioans who want to mature a Victory Garden.”
“Whether it’s increasing a huge backyard backyard garden, a several potted crops on a kitchen windowsill, or a scaled-down container yard on your porch, the Ohio Victory Gardens system has some thing to offer all people, explained Cathann A. Kress, Ohio State’s vice president for agricultural administration and dean of The Ohio Point out University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).
“We are fired up to associate all over again with the Ohio Section of Agriculture to enrich Ohioans’ appreciation for escalating food items for their households.”
OSU Extension is the community-based outreach arm of CFAES, with programming that addresses agriculture and purely natural methods, group development, spouse and children and purchaser sciences, and 4-H youth enhancement. Extension experts throughout the state deliver people and suggestions collectively to support CFAES sustain life.
“We are thrilled to when all over again be part of the Ohio Victory Gardens program and aid numerous of the citizens we attain come to be enthusiastic growers of their own foods,” reported Jackie Kirby Wilkins, affiliate dean in the University of Foodstuff, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, and director, OSU Extension. “Each year, we get to additional than 2.5 million learners all through Ohio.”
Extension’s instructional outreach is increased by additional than 3,200 Grasp Gardener Volunteers, who aid the Ohio Victory Gardens method by offering gardening information, assisting with community gardens, and advertising neighborhood meals manufacturing among their neighbors in the course of the point out.
Seeds will be out there to decide on up when materials last at OSU Extension – Morrow County 5362 U.S. HWY 42 Mt. Gilead Monday – Friday 8 a.m. – Noon and 1 – 4:30 p.m.
All Victory Gardens members will be qualified to acquire a absolutely free starter gardening toolkit by completing a shorter on the internet survey to enter.
