This month at St. Vincent Mission we have started some of home garden visits. Canning season is just around the corner, we were able to have each of our garden participants to participate in canning classes taught at the Floyd County Extension office. They were able to choose if they wanted to do a hot
The fifth month of the 2022 garden program has arrived at St. Vincent Mission! The start of this month was met with a large outside donation of 75 tomato plants, which were given out to the David School to aid students with their garden. The beginning of the new month also marks the end of
The fourth month of the 2022 garden program is right around the corner at St. Vincent Mission! We have monthly meetings with participant aid, tilling jobs, fertilization of new gardens, and a class discussing the “how’s” and “why’s” of garden maintenance. At this month’s meeting, participants were presented with plants, seeds, and greenhouse vouchers. Some
It’s 2022 and the Garden Program is up and running with participants eager to get started. Two meetings have already been conducted in February and March; with 26 people and 22 people in attendance, respectively. Partakers of the monthly meeting were given the benefaction of Snap Peas, Calendars, Trellis and Netting. During the assembly, Keith
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
