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,
Rain, Rain, Go Away! We've gotten so much rain that the weeds are growing faster than the wanted vegetable plants lately. This isn't discouraging the hardcore gardeners we have tho! They're finding windows of sunshine to sneak out to their gardens and pull a few weeds, pluck a few early vegetables, and snap a few
Gardening is a wonderful & worthy endeavor. What other pastime can you participate in with such rich end results?! Some of our gardeners are confident and bold in their participation and some are timid and amazed when their timid advances at pushing a seed into the soil produces a plant, that produces a fruit, that
Off and Running in the Community Gardens and the folks are loving it! We've focused on container gardening in four of our Community Gardens and folks are getting excited to plant their seeds. I've emphasized that they need to be bringing those pots indoors when we get our Redbud, Dogwood, and Blackberry Winters, as we
Garden season has officially begun! We've held our first two meetings at the Floyd County Extension Office signing up 29 participants, as well as arranging classes for 4 Community Gardens and 4 container Community Gardens in the Floyd County area. Three of the Community Gardens are solid, thriving gardens and 1 is just getting started.
REST! Now begins a season of rest and we all need rest; even our earth needs to rest for a season. We're clearing our gardens, sowing cover crops to replenish the nutrients we've used up this summer, cleaning & putting our tools away until we get the fever again to dig into the soil and
