Grow Appalachia at St. Vincent Mission is ending another productive and challenging year. We have hired a new Garden Program Coordinator. Jeannette Mullins joined our team in September 2021. She has lived in the Floyd Co. area and done gardening with here family as far back as she can remember. Jeannette is looking forward to
Monday September 13th, St. Vincent Mission Grow Appalachia hosted an end of the season appreciation dinner for their participants. We are very proud of them for all their hard work on making 2021 a successful growing season. Growers were presented with a gift of their choice of a large canner, small canner, vacuum sealer, 1
August Accomplishments This month we have seen a bounty of tomatoes in our garden. We have canned salsa, beets, pickled corn, made zucchini bread and other wonderful food. Our fundraiser and mission speaker has been taking our canned items on the road and has sold them to our donors and volunteers that she visits. We
HARVEST TIME! Our Summer harvest has begun, as the heat rises don't forget to harvest the fruits of your hard labor. Our plants are loving the warmth and starting
Garden Angels Last year, I had moved up to a Grow Appalachia Coordinator at St. Vincent Mission. The past few years, I have been under three former Coordinators in the garden and learned a lot from them. I realized that I needed to research on how to stop the weeds that I have dealt
The weather is finally starting to calm down, let the growing begin. We have used black plastic for the whole garden this year to eliminate weeds. This year we have 13 rows for the sunny side and 8 rows for the shady side garden, plus, fence for our peas for longer harvest. We have
Spring time is here! We are ready to face any challenges that arises this growing season. First, it was a snow storm, 2nd was flooding, now hopefully mother nature will calm down and let the party begin. We have had two in person class meetings this year. We have a face book page for the
BRING IT ON 2021! We are ready for a challenging but successful garden workout after the wintery blues. We worked throughout the winter in the high tunnel and brainstormed new creative ideas for 2021. At the end of fall, we were blessed with many starter plants of cabbage, broccoli, collards, cauliflower and started rows
Well its the end of the 2020 summer season. Preparing for our winter crops in the High Tunnel to continue our harvest throughout the year. Cleaned out all three gardens that I have maintained for the mission. There are many peppers, greens, horse radish, and raspberries still harvesting in the garden and high tunnel.
Don't stop now, enjoy Fall Crops!Summer season 2020 is coming to an end, fall crops are now being planted. My participates have been patience with me as a New Grow Appalachia Coordinator. We have learned new techniques from each other for next year's growing season. We all have managed to work together to complete
