Executive Director – Trevor Terry
Trevor Terry serves as Executive Director of the Kentucky Horticulture Council, where he focuses on strengthening Kentucky’s diverse horticultural community through innovation, collaboration, and strategic partnerships. With a decade of experience spanning both local production and international trade, Trevor brings unique expertise in greenhouse operations, economic development, and industry advocacy. Prior to joining KHC, he served as Economic Policy Officer at the Netherlands Consulate General in Chicago, where he fostered vital partnerships between Dutch and Kentucky-based organizations in the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) sector. Previously, as Chief Marketing Communications Officer at Kentucky Fresh Harvest, he helped establish one of the Commonwealth’s pioneering greenhouse vegetable operations. Under his leadership, KHC remains committed to driving innovation and building capacity across all segments of Kentucky’s horticultural industry, working to create meaningful opportunities for growers and advance the Commonwealth’s position as a leader in modern agriculture.
Email Trevor at trevor@kyhortcouncil.org.
Direct Marketing Program Manager – Bethany Prekopa Cox
Bethany Prekopa Cox joined the Kentucky Horticulture Council in July 2020 as the Direct Marketing Program Manager. She comes to the Council from the University of Kentucky’s Food Connection. She is a fierce advocate for farmers markets across the Commonwealth, and she is proud of her past work with the Lexington Farmers Market promoting and assisting vendors with online store creation and setting up mobile payments.
Her role at KHC is focused on supporting growers selling products directly to customers. You might catch her over on the Kentucky Horticulture Council’s Facebook page cooking up a new recipe or out and about at your local farmers market. Bethany is a Kentucky native and a graduate of UK.
Email Bethany at bethany@kyhortcouncil.org.
Grower Outreach Coordinator – Dakota Moore
Dakota Moore is the Grower Outreach Coordinator for the Kentucky Horticulture Council. He applies his experience in greenhouse production, public garden management, and floral design to create educational content and provide assistance to Kentucky growers. He received both his B.S. in Ag Science with an emphasis in Horticulture and M.S. in Ag Science from Murray State University. He grew up just outside of Nashville, TN but has family ties to Western Kentucky, where he currently lives.
Dakota’s projects include cut flower production & marketing education, Kentucky Grown Cut Flower Promotion, ag water safety education, grower promotion, and supporting the Kentucky Farm to School Network. His past projects include a series of webinars & recorded content focused on crop insurance for specialty crops, work on the Kentucky Small Fruits Initiative, and sustainable ag focused webinars for growers & ag service providers.
Email Dakota at dakota@kyhortcouncil.org.
Special Projects Coordinator – Dani Zwischenberger
Dani Zwischenberger joined the Kentucky Horticulture Council in November 2023 as the Special Projects Coordinator. Prior to joining the KHC team, Dani spent years working on diversified vegetable farms in Kentucky, facilitating farm-based educational programs in Jefferson County schools and coordinating outreach and events for the Bardstown Road Farmers Market in Louisville. In her role with KHC, Dani works to build relationships with specialty crop growers and industry partners, offer technical assistance, and develop educational programming to reduce production and marketing barriers for growers across the state. Having worked in and around farmers markets for much of her career, Dani can say with confidence that there is no group more talented, harder working, or more forward thinking than Kentucky growers and she is thrilled to be a part of an organization whose mission is to uplift and spread awareness of the horticulture industry as a whole.
Dani graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio with a B.A. in Spanish and Environmental Studies. You can usually find her in her backyard cut flower garden or in the kitchen following one of the recipes from the Kentucky Horticulture Council’s Facebook page!
Email Dani at dani.z@kyhortcouncil.org.