Owsley County : Growing Healthy, at Home In no uncertain terms the words "spring farming" and "School-to-Farm" seem remotely so far away in the uncertain times of a global worldwide pandemic. Instead of immersing our students in hands on learning and outdoor classrooms, their young, eager hands deep in rich soil, planting precious
Hello everyone, I have been with St. Vincent Mission for 5 years off & on as a part time employee, volunteer, and intern. Now I’m the new coordinator for Grow Appalachia--that’s what you call moving up the ladder. I am ready to encourage others and provide materials they need to get started in a successful
Greetings from Valerie on Cowan Creek! Grow Appalachia We have been quite, but for too long, but are happy to be here and see all the good work our Grow Appalachia family is doing. It has been a challenging year, but Debbie Cook, Grow Appalachia Coordinator has done a fabulous check making it work. Our
Marcelle St. Germain Grow Appalachia Big Ugly, WV Step by Step, Inc. Going with the flow here at Big Ugly. Like everyone else, we had to shift plans midstream to make things work for us to grow plants and to get seeds, fertilizer, and plants to our gardeners. Special thanks are in order, to a
Bea Sias GA Logan, WV Step by Step For the last six months, the whole world has been turned upside down. It has been something that no one could ever expect to take place, but unfortunately, it has in our lifetime. Maybe in a few months, we will see the end of this terrible ordeal,
Preparing Our Garden We are an optimistic bunch here at High Rocks. Even with regulations changing by the day, we held on to hope that our summer camp for girls may yet be a possibility. So with our plants ordered and the weather warming, we take to the tunnel and begin our work. Gardening
I went back and checked, and I used this exact title last May, and something similar a few years before. This is crazy! It's time for gardening, not time for snow! Since we're so far behind because of the weather and all of this COVID-19 garbage, I'm going to share a recipe with you. You
As a new site coordinator of a new Grow Appalachia site, who had never even heard of Grow Appalachia until August of last year, I’m learning not only how to run a successful garden grant program but also how & why the program works. To me it sounded like this… buy stuff, give it away,
Yesterday, my wife and I traveled to our hometown. We always go home around Mother’s Day to visit our mom and to decorate my dad’s grave for Memorial Day. On this trip, we always go to my favorite greenhouse to buy plants, Hardin’s Greenhouse. Several years ago, the owner, K. C. Hardin encouraged me to
In January, I jotted down topics for upcoming blogs, the resounding theme through all of them was the disconnect between Americans and their food supply. Dairy farms were in crisis, major milk brands were in bankruptcy, and lab grown and vegetable-based meats were gaining popularity in every fast food establishment, while farmers struggled to make
