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
This year as a New Grow Appalachia Coordinator has been a real challenge for me, fighting pests, deadlines, maintaining the mission garden and donated garden, garden visits, Farmer's Market. There's only been one educational class due to Covid 19 guidelines, therefore, posting educational videos on our face book page. We all have learned new
This blog is continued with my home garden visits from last month. I have many new participates this year that wanted to start growing a garden with their families. I'm learning so many different ways of maintaining my own garden through their techniques and experiments. I have been posting videos on our face book
PLANT WITH LOVE, WATCH MIRACLES GROW! Jeanette Mullins 2020 Generous Donation! Jeannette Mullins is a former intern and a dedicated volunteer that has blessed the mission with a 90 x 88 garden plot donation. This generous donation will make the third garden plot for the mission to share with the community and
Hello everyone, I have been with St. Vincent Mission for 5 years off & on as a part time employee, volunteer, and intern. Now I’m the new coordinator for Grow Appalachia--that’s what you call moving up the ladder. I am ready to encourage others and provide materials they need to get started in a successful
Fall is finally settling in and we're looking forward to some rest, as I mentioned last month. The leaves are changing colors, our fall gardens are taking off, and our final harvests are pouring in. The sweet potato crop was a wonderful success for some and a complete failure for others. Some years you soar
Seasons Our year is divided into different seasons for a reason and I'm so thankful that we're moving into a season of rest. The earth needs to rest and we need to rest in order to rejuvenate for the coming seasons. Harvest Before that season of rest gets underway, we have a season of harvest
Summer's Bounty This is the month that everyone gets excited because summer's bounty is pouring in from the gardens. Beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, & melons are ripening all at once and we wait expectantly for the perfect time to pick them. We don't want to wait too long and lose them to the wildlife competition,
We're in the midst of a heat wave and our crops are bursting with juicy flavor. Here's our gallery of gardens and some quotes of what this garden program has meant to our gardeners. Enjoy! Grow Appalachia has been very helpful to me, they gave me seeds and fertilizer that I couldn't afford to buy,
