It's the celebration of the fall equinox! You know, the time of year when the sun shines right on the equator and the length of day and night are nearly equal. But it's also the time of year for fall planting and planning. So go ahead and harvest. Then remove your summer plants--or whats left
BUSY doesn't even begin to describe how this time of the year has been. Harvests are piling in, everyone is canning, freezing, dehydrating, and soon St. Vincent will be freeze drying with our new Harvest Right Freeze Dryers. We'll be ordering them along with a couple of Zojirushi bread machines to make some value added
Michael Tierney, Big Ugly Step by Step One of the advantages of being around for a long time (Big Ugly Community Center is 23 this fall, Step by Step is 30) is that when people are looking for partners for out of the box ideas, they think of us. On October 6, Big Ugly Community
Bea Sias, Logan County Step by Step On August 10th, 2018, Grow Appalachia, Pride Organization and Word of Life Church, and twenty or more other schools threw a BACK TO SCHOOL BASH for the students and parents in Logan County. We had health services, Vision and other things to check for the adults. They
Happy summer Grow Appalachia friends! This summer has been filled with so many highlights I don’t know where to even begin! So I will just start. First up, victories from the Summer Sprouts “Grow Your Business” class. I created a 5 week course where I taught students the basics of how to start a business,
After consulting Webster's Dictionary, Martha Giddings, a fixture in the Snowshoe/Linwood Real Estate Business, writes: How do you define a community? Communities are made of people, not rhetoric. You can define a community by the shared attributes of the people in it, and/or by the strength of the connections among them. When an organization is
Hello there! It has been a while, but I still exist. Debbie Strickland here in Greeneville, TN, kicking it up with Rural Resources! My co-worker, Kathleen Lokey, has been keeping you all posted with our gardening program involving our at-risk teens. She has come on board this growing season, and has been doing an amazing
August has been a very busy month for us here at the Scott Christian Care Center. This month we went to Carl and Sherry Shafer’s Farm. Carl shared with us about extending the garden season. Interesting fact that he shared with us: Green beans are nitrogen fixers the roots of the bean have rhizobium –
When the crops lay heavy and ready to harvest, it can only mean one thing: it's time for the Hindman Settlement School’s annual canning class! Local master canner Bonita Adams and her daughter Liberty Campbell taught a class of Grow Appalachia participants water-bath, pressure, and cold canning techniques. Grow Appalachia participants at the Hindman
