Big Ugly Grow Appalachia, July 2024
The weather has been hot, with temperatures hitting 100 on a couple of days, and heat indexes as high as 114. Rain has been sporadic and very light. Despite that,
Logan Grow Appalachia Blog, July 2024
The last of June and July have been the hottest part of this year, with very high temperatures and very little rain, but it’s still humid and uncomfortably sticky. The
Fried Green Tomato Season!
Well, June started somewhat cool and wet, and some of our gardeners found out the hard way that they’d planted their veggies in the wrong place and stayed so wet
Workshops in Big Ugly
Well, we just had our second batch of hands-on workshops for our gardeners, which were delicious workshops!! Our first hands-on was our two salsa workshops that everyone enjoyed. Now, we
Nurturing Our Gardens And Nurturing Our Future Gardeners
This year we are adding youth and teens to our gardening programs in a couple of ways, trying to engage youth in the growing and preservation of their food. These
Healthy Gardens
It was a beautiful day in West Virginia on Sunday, May 5th, 2024: the sun was shining, and there was hardly a cloud in the sky. By Monday it was
Preparing New Gardens
It is a beautiful day in West Virginia, the sun is shining bright, no rain or wind. If the weather stays like today, the gardeners will be putting seeds in
New Gardens, New Gardeners, New Generation
Spring has sprung around here. Wisteria, redbuds, and dogwoods are all in bloom, trees are happily leafing out, and gardeners are happily planting their gardens. Potatoes and early spring crops
Spring Is Here!
Logan March 2024 Blog The red buds are blooming, the dogwoods are blooming, daffodils are blooming, trees are budding out, and green thumbs are twitching to get dirty planting veggies
Growing Our Gardens & Growing Future Gardeners
We finally had our first meeting (the first planned meeting was snowed out), and had a really good turnout for a mid-week meeting. We had 30 people show up, with
