Our First High Tunnel
Dorothy Feltner, Americorps VISTA, Reporting in from Lotts Creek Community School for 4/4/15. Lotts Creek Learning Garden has leveled up this week with a new high tunnel. A big thank
Strawberries!
--Karline Jensen, High Rocks, Hillsboro, WV Quite a few of our gardeners want to grow strawberries this year, so we are buying 250 strawberry plants from one of our gardeners
Warm thoughts for warm weather!
The level of excitement for Grow Appalachia in our community continues to amaze me! We have had a ton of donations and support from businesses in our community. Linwood Library
A busy couple of weeks by Sue@Lmu
Caught Mr. Bill today straightning. our makeshift fence to keep people from falling down our steep hill to the greenhouse. Parsnips I planted last spring. I thought I'd
Unexpected Blessings!
Good afternoon! This is S. Ann Marie Quinn from St. Vincent Mission in David, KY. Yesterday, Good Friday, was literally a “wash out” for many people. The rains on Thursday
From the grocery store.
“From the grocery store” was the childes reply when he was asked, “Where does your food come from?” I suspect this is not an uncommon answer. For most people, lettuce
Harvesting through the snow
When we talked with our gardeners last fall about extending their growing season there was not a high level of interest. Some people tried a fall crop of greens but
Humbled by Mother Nature
This past Saturday, Mother Nature showed me who's boss by using her freezing temperature powers. She took our little tomato, pepper and basil seedlings from us. I walked into our high
A Strong Start
Hello again! This is David Cornette at Hindman Settlement School Grow Appalachia, and aren't those peas looking pretty? It's been a busy and productive couple of weeks for us here,
Lessons on Pesticides
Happy Good Friday Ya'll! Maria here, checking in from a very gloomy Williamson, WV. Last Thursday we hosted our pesticide workshop for our growers and farmers. And let me tell
