Garden Maintenance – Chip Dial
Red Bird Mission's Grow Appalachia project had a great turnout for our monthly training. Jeff Casada, Agriculture Agent at the Clay County Extension office presented our training on Garden Maintenance.
Red Bird Mission's Grow Appalachia project had a great turnout for our monthly training. Jeff Casada, Agriculture Agent at the Clay County Extension office presented our training on Garden Maintenance.
My name is Chip Dial and I grew up here in Appalachia. Red Bird is my home. I left to join the Navy in 2001, expecting never to return. After
This week I have been working on doing my final planting for the summer season. I am normally done with this by the end of May but the spring of
Here at Red Bird Mission we are psyched about gearing up for the upcoming growing season.We are now putting together the berry order for all our participants and preparing for
A New HireThe New Year brings the opportunity for renewed hope, great expectations, and the chance for a fresh start to apply lessons learned and improve our outcomes in this
In the mountains of Appalachia it is said to be bad luck to say thank you if you ever receive cuttings or plants as a gift. The plant will not
This week I have been compiling all of our Recipes from our participants, putting our lending library together, and reviewing 2012 applications. I have decided to share a couple of
Last Tuesday me and Grow Appalachia participant Richard Mason were given the opportunity to attend the “Small, Limited Resource, Minority Farms Conference” at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. This opportunity
Here at Red Bird Mission we have been spending our time compiling 2011Grow Appalachia participant’s info into personalized folders putting gardens to bed and preparing for the 2012 growing season.
We held our final Grow Appalachia meeting here at Red Bird Mission Thursday Oct.20 2011. We distributed two books to all participants that attended. One was"Carrots love Tomatoes" which is