As I have been planning my garden this year, ordering seeds from my favorite companies far away, preparing soil, adding in beds, and all the other things I’ve learned you do before planting time, I have been trying to be mindful of my remaining real modern day gardening problems I’ve had the last couple of
Out here in Wayne County, we've all been busy - our gardeners are gathering trellis netting, starting seeds, and preparing their beds for the growing season, and ACCESS WV team members have been working on an exciting new development in the town of Wayne. Through support provided by Try This WV and in collaboration with
Growing & Healing in the Garden Hi! I’m Marcella Romeo, from Cross Lanes, West Virginia . Like some people in the area, I grew up helping my parents with gardening & yard work. I also had the pleasure of growing up living on a ‘farm’ with my parents and grandparents, so I would
My father had always had a garden, ever since I was big enough to remember. When I was little, we all helped some in planting, harvesting, etc., but I was truly never interested in growing vegetables or preserving anything. I always hated having to get out there and help and on more than one occasion
Hello everyone! My name is Chelsea and this is my second year with Grow Wayne. It has been such a wonderful learning experience from the very start. I look forward to the years to come! To me, as a small town, middle of no where girl, gardening is so much more than just putting food
Gardening is life!! It’s a lot of work, and it’s hard work! I see it as a challenge with a beneficial outcome. Besides gardening, I do have a full time job working 10 hour shifts, four days a week. This year I also started my little goat farm, consisting of two does and a buck.
Out on the West End of Huntington there is a church named St. Peters. St. Peters is an Episcopalian church and like most churches of this denomination it has a long-standing tradition of outreach, community feeds, tent drives and in one case cold weather sheltering during the cold snap we experienced last winter. In its
This time last year, I was 10 weeks pregnant with my first child, my daughter Mallory. I was also overzealous and consumed with all my plans and dreams for the first growing season at our new house and homestead that we purchased at the end of summer 2019. I had spent months dreaming of my
Here in Wayne, WV we’re responding to historic flooding in March of 2021, on the heels of historic ice storms in February, just weeks before, following a year of a global pandemic, during a multi-year downturn in the post-coal economy, in a region with too many families devastated by nearly a decade of an opioid
The Year 2020 will go down in history as a lot of things, ‘unprecedented’, ‘tumultuous’, but here in Wayne, we will remember the year 2020 as a rebirth of the family garden. When we applied to be a Grow Appalachia partner site in 2019 for the 2020 gardening year, we had no idea what to
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