It arrived in boxes. No, not Christmas – the Boys Home greenhouse! On a rare sunny day in February, all the pieces for assembly of a 20’ x 28’ greenhouse with a polycarbonate roof and roll-up side panels arrived at the greenhouse location on Wickline Road. Farm Manager Bonnie Wheatley, alongside Bobby Trice, Director
January 31,2019 Grow Appalachia hosted “Meet and Greet” where applications were completed and everyone was introduced. We have had three classes and three workshops this season Introduction to Grow Appalachia About the program Introduction to the team Site selection Soil Samples Garden Planning Deciding what to plant Selecting and ordering seeds When to plant Fruit
This has been the most active winter for the Williamson Health & Wellness Center Agriculture team. This is Maria, the Director of Community Agriculture. I have been working at the Wellness Center for six years and this has definitely been our most active year. We are now rolling FOUR deep. We have 3 full time
Once upon a time, Wise County was the third largest apple producer in Virginia. Today, we're down to one commercial orchard (or two if you count the 14 acres managed by the prison for their own use). Even though we no longer have this industry, home orchards can thrive, and our annual apple grafting workshops
Garden season has officially begun! We've held our first two meetings at the Floyd County Extension Office signing up 29 participants, as well as arranging classes for 4 Community Gardens and 4 container Community Gardens in the Floyd County area. Three of the Community Gardens are solid, thriving gardens and 1 is just getting started.
-Bea Sias -Logan County West Virginia -Step by Step After receiving telephone calls for enrollment in Dec of 2018 Grow Appalachia in Lincoln and Logan counties have started to get their 2019 gardening season underway. It may be too early and the ground may be too wet but with a few gardeners that are on
2019-Marcelle St. Germain Grow App, Big Ugly Step by Step As we entered a region we had never seen before, our group of volunteer college students did not know what to expect from the Grow Appalachia program, or even West Virginia as a whole. The area can seem very foreign, even to those who live
--Emily Carter, High Rocks AmeriCorps Member, Hillsboro, WV Hi All! Emily here with High Rocks in beautiful Hillsboro, West Virginia. I just kick-started my 6 months of service with AmeriCorps working in the gardens and assisting with Grow Appalachia. I participated in Grow Appalachia with my mother last summer and fell in love with High
Travis here, hoping everyone has been staying dry from all this rain we've been getting. First sign of dry weather would be a great time to get those gardens tilled up in case of spring showers. We have made a few lay outs of some of our gardens & how we may want them to
I get a lot of questions this time of year, generally consisting of, “Can I plant X right now?” The air is feeling a little warmer and on days when the sun manages to shine, spring fever starts to rage in the hearts and minds of every gardener I know. The air temperatures may be
