Spotlight Series: Campbell County

Our continuing "Spotlight Series": Campbell

Cooperative Extension Service provides a range of educational programming and activities to support the well-being of Kentuckians. One good example is in Campbell County where FCS agents taught 83 participants to use and make safe homemade cleaning products in an effort to promote green cleaning and safe homemade cleaning products. The Environmental Protection Agency has found that the air inside a typical home is 2 to 5 times more polluted than the air outside largely because of conventional household cleaners and pesticides. Seventy-one percent of participants reported that they were now purchasing more environmentally friendly cleaning products. Fifty-nine percent now use fewer cleaning products (i.e. 3 instead of 5) and use correct amounts of products by reading labels and measuring properly.

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