A Season of Growth and Gratitude: Our 2025 Grow Appalachia Wrap-Up
As the growing season winds down, we can’t help but smile looking back at what an incredible year it’s been for our Grow Appalachia families here at the Scott Christian
Gardening Year-round
If you’re a serious gardener, the fall and winter months can be a difficult time; the best you can do is look at seed catalogs, plan your garden out for
Another Gardening Year Ending
Another gardening year has come to an end, though many gardeners still have winter squash, pumpkins, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and a few other things to harvest. Many like to wait
Reflecting on Our Garden Friends (and Foes)
Our gardens in Lower Price Hill have been full of life this season. That's not just from our plants, but from the many creatures that call the gardens home.
My First Garden: A Labor of Love and Learning By Andrianah Sweeny
This year, I officially became a gardener—and let me tell you, it’s not for the faint of heart. Gardening takes so much time and effort. But it’s also one of
The Local Exchange Market & Gardening Community
This year, our garden program and team accomplished one of our big garden program goals, which was to establish more market access for our growers in our local community,
Heart-Healthy Cooking with Mama Yawah Awolowo
In mid-September, we hosted an amazing cooking class with food educator, land steward, and long-time vegan/vegetarian chef Mama Yawah Awolowo! Yawah was raised in East Knoxville and operated a
“Old Hands, Young Hands”
As we close out the 2025 growing season here in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, I keep thinking about hands. Old hands, steady as a metronome after fifty summers of
The End of A Great Season
As our first season comes to a close, we have been reflecting over our successes and missteps. We are very proud of the amount of produce that we were able
Growing Your Own Mushrooms: A Hands-On Workshop
This past month, we had an amazing time at our mushroom growing workshop, led by Tracie Goodman of McCreary County extension! Our participants were very excited to learned how to
