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Impact Report
| For plan | Plant Management Systems: Urban Horticulture (Eddy County) |
| Date | November 4, 2011, 7:49 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Eddy County master gardeners supported the fourth annual farmers market this year. Also teh second annual community garden for the general public. They also started a community garden with produce going to the soup kitchen and they supervised a therapeutic garden at Carlsbad Mental Health Treasure house and Marvin Watts center. on the the therapist told me there was a young man in his early twenty's who had not responded to any activities of therapy for the last eight years, who enthusiastically participated in the garden project. His parents were delighted. Eddy County Agent continued to work with the therapeutic garden at Crossroads drug rehab. center. The clients from last year in a voluntary return survey said the garden made a difference. There was a 62.6% return in surveys. Of these 43% had continued to garden in some fashion. |