On a serious note, theft at our little community garden is a hot button issue right now. We have had several of our garden renters report theft. Not just a cucumber here or a tomato there but people bringing plastic bags and buggys and actually shopping the beds. If people had to eat only what
-- Liz Kammeyer, High Rocks AmeriCorps Member, Hillsboro, WV Greetings from the mountain! Since our last post, we started and finished an amazing New Beginnings camp in which we and our stellar young people laughed, learned, and got our hands dirty in the gardens. Among the lettuce, cucumbers, broccoli, zucchini, and more, garlic is one
I’m Ali Hintz, the new Community Agriculture VISTA at the Hindman Settlement School. I’ll be working this year to expand our Grow Appalachia program as well as the Knott County Farmers Market. I’m writing while sitting on a not-yet-unpacked moving box in my new apartment perched on the cliff over Troublesome Creek. I just moved
Travis Adkins again, our Farmers Market has been a fun and exciting start to this farming season. Our farmers love coming out and swapping stories on how to better each others crop, what crops they like best, etc. Our market allows our farmers to sale any locally grown produce they have grown on their farms.
Summer is in full swing and we are staying busy with weeding, harvesting, mulching, and more! Our classes go from every two weeks to every week which keeps us on our toes. So far this summer we have learned about chickens, rain barrels, raised beds, working a farmers market, and more! Next week we have
The Scott County Farmers Market is an official member of the Tennessee Association of Farmers Markets and is located at 600 Scott High Dr. in Huntsville, TN. Historically, the Farmers Market is open on Saturdays from 9:00am to 2:00pm throughout the summer (June - Sept). Vendors range from produce, honey, baked goods, crafts, to just about anything that
Harvest Surprises The last reporting period, we were impressed by how many families reported harvests of wild foraged foods. There were the usual blood-purifying delicacies of old like young poke-weed and dandelion greens, but there were also harvests less commonly known like guomi berries. Other delicacies like morel and hen-of-the-woods mushrooms were reported but their
June is the loveliest of months! The deep summer heat isn't yet relentless, a rain shower seems always to be around the corner, and the birds sing just a little louder. All this loveliness sure has kept us hopping this month, but we captured plenty of photos along the way! So, we thought we'd share our
Hello to all our fabulous followers! If I had to write about one thing that would sum up the last 4-6 weeks in our little green garden it would be KALE!!! We have cut kale, sold kale, ate kale, and researched how beneficial kale is. When we packed our first CSA boxes we were washing
Hello garden friends and Grow Appalachia followers! Summer is here! Over-the-Rhine People’s Garden is in full bloom. Gardeners are busy harvesting and enjoying lots of healthy fruits and vegetables like currants, beets, lettuces, kale, cabbage, herbs, asparagus and more. We are grateful to have had several successful volunteer events in the garden this month, thanks
