The Carroll County Cooperative Extension Service has two new extension agents filling the vacant Agriculture and Natural Resources and Family and Consumer Sciences positions.
Christy Eastwood
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The Carroll County Cooperative Extension Service has two new extension agents filling the vacant Agriculture and Natural Resources and Family and Consumer Sciences positions.
Christy Eastwood
Christy Eastwood comes to Carroll County from Boone County where she was one of three 4-H Youth Development agents for the past 23 years. She began her extension career as a Family Consumer Sciences agent in Gallatin County where worked for two years before moving back to Boone County.
“After 23 years of doing 4-H work in a large county I was ready to go back to FSC and back to a small county,” Eastwood said. “I wanted to be closer to the people and from the moment I arrived here the people have been so nice. I have not been treated as a stranger and it has been refreshing. I feel at home.”
Although she started out in a small office with just a staff of four there was a staff of 30 people in Boone County. She's now back in a small office of four at Carroll where she is looking forward to them being able to personalize their programs.
She has quickly found out that while her homemaker numbers may be small they are mighty in force.
Maggie Turner
“I grew up in 4-H from the age of 9 to 18 and then in FFA while I was in high school serving as my chapter secretary and my senior year I was the regional secretary,” Maggie Turner said. “I graduated from UK this past spring so agriculture has been a part of my life for seems like forever.”
Turner's degree from the UK College of Food and Environment is an individualized degree focusing on education, business and general agriculture.
She grew up in Boone County but now lives in Owen County. She showed horses in 4-H but is now more involved with cattle and sheep.
The cattle and sheep come from Turner's involvement with the Forsee family in Owen County and boyfriend Preston Forsee. She said she lived there for two years before meeting Preston.
“Who would have thought as small as Owenton is it would have taken that long for our paths to cross,” she noted.
“I grew up in agriculture, spent my childhood in 4-H, and now in the Extension Service,” she added. “Ag is my passion.”
Turner and Eastwood can be found at the Carroll County Extension Office at 500 Floyd Drive in Carrollton. The office phone number is 502-732-7030.
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