Spotlight Series: Bourbon County

Our continuing "Spotlight Series": Bourbon

Cooperative Extension Service provides a range of educational programming and activities to support the well-being of Kentuckians. One good example is Bourbon County where Bourbon County Extension Homemakers (BCEH) are an active part of the community and participated in many local activities, including holiday cooking schools, county-wide safety days, the Bourbon County Fair, and nutrition month activities for preschoolers. A major program designed to help fight children’s hunger in Bourbon County, with all clubs donating foods, is the “School Backpack” program. Each Friday, children identified by the school system as food insecure are sent home with a backpack of food to eat during the weekend.

For more information about the needs of families in Bourbon County and how UK Cooperative Extension is providing services, please click here to see the full Bourbon County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Profile