Welcome to Kentucky Family Policy
This blog is dedicated to examining issues facing the Commonwealth of Kentucky and providing a nonpartisan, family perspective on public policy making. We hope to provide a forum for Kentuckians to review and discuss current legislative actions and the issues such actions are attempting to address. The opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Kentucky, its affiliates, or its representatives.
What the authors of this blog will contribute:
1) Summarize current state, national, and international research related to topics relevant to current legilative actions.
2) Describe Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service programs and activities currently addressing issues related to legilative actions in the various counties.
3) Provide expert commentaries via podcasts and videocasts on issues relevant to current legilative actions.
Please see "Priority Bills" section on the right for a short list of the most current legislative actions relevant to the family focus of this blog
According to The National Gardening Association, 48% of consumers garden to ensure access to a safe food supply. To offer families information on nutrition and food safety, Boyle County Family and Consumer Sciences agent offered a series of food preservation classes to Boyle, Lincoln, and Hardin counties. The agent taught freezing, boiling-water canning methods, and pickling. Participants went through the entire process of freezing or canning and left with a finished product. Before the class, 40% had "poor" knowledge and 40% had "fair" knowledge of food preservation. After, 100% had "excellent" knowledge of canning and freezing. 90% of participants believe that learning this skill would allow them to save money; 100% of participants believe it will save time.
To see the entire Building Strong Families county profile for Boyle County, please click the link.
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