Ariel Agenbroad
Ariel Agenbroad
Area Extension Educator — Community Food Systems & Small Farms
208-287-5900
¹û¶³´«Ã½Â鶹Éç Extension, Ada County
5880 Glenwood Street
Boise, ID 83714
Ariel leads and facilitates collaborative, multidisciplinary and multifaceted applied research and education in community food systems and small farms for Payette, Gem, Canyon, Ada, Owyhee and Elmore.
M.S., ¹û¶³´«Ã½Â鶹Éç, 2007
B.S., ¹û¶³´«Ã½Â鶹Éç, 2005
Courses
- ED 505: Just Add Water — School Garden Workshop for Teachers
- Community food systems
- On-farm food safety
- Small acreage farming
- Farm to school
- Farmers' markets
- Direct-to-consumer marketing of agricultural products
- Urban agriculture
- Community food security
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Ariel Agenbroad serves southwest Idaho as a ¹û¶³´«Ã½Â鶹Éç Extension educator in community food systems, urban horticulture and small farms. She is committed to helping individuals and communities grow. Her areas of specialization include home and market vegetable production, direct marketing of small farm products, organics and gardening with youth.
For eight years as a horticulture educator in Caldwell, she coordinated and taught the Canyon County Master Gardeners, and organized and taught several small farms classes and workshops annually. She created the Idaho Victory Garden Series, a popular UI Extension program designed to help families produce more food at home. She also she started the Master Gardener School Garden Mentor program, which trains and certifies volunteers to support school garden projects statewide.
Since summer 2015, her focus has turned to community food systems in the greater Boise metropolitan area, particularly working around issues related to hunger relief, farmers' markets, small scale food processing, farm to school programs and community gardening.
- Recognized with 16 state, regional or national awards for excellence in Extension education, outreach and communications, including national winner for individual newsletter from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents.