Opening Day
Beth Massey - Grow Appalachia Alderson Coordinator with the Alderson Food Hub. It's official, we are open at the Green Grocer. This group of amazing volunteers, including some Grow Appalachia
Spring Break: GA Informational Meeting, Farmers’ Market Board Meeting, Extension Office Meeting, and KCFM Vendor Meeting
By: Kathryn Engle Spring Break for me was packed with meetings! On Saturday March 14th we had our informational meeting for the Lend-A-Hand Center Grow Appalachia Gardening Program. We had
The Joy of Working With New Gardeners
Hello everyone. This is Alex Sanders, Grow Appalachia Garden Site Supervisor at Project Worth Outreach in Menifee County, Kentucky. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying this beautiful weather we
Field Notes: Accomplishment and Appreciation
GreenHouse17 By L.N. This post is part of our Field Notes series written by survivors of intimate partner abuse. Working in the garden is such an amazing and humbling honor.
Pesticides: Weeds and fungi and bugs, oh my!
Greetings Grow Appalachia family! Holly the HQ VISTA here. Last week was kind of a long week. We were back at Greenhouse 17 finishing up their high tunnels. Working with
Starting our seeds
We started our seeds this past Thursday. Most of us are learning something new every time we attend a Grow Appalachia meeting with our community gardeners. We had 250 seed
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs!
God is so good! Earlier this week while working with some college students we got talking about when to plant various fruits and vegetables in the garden. As we worked
The Basics of Bugs
Howdy family, AmeriCorps VISTA Jeffrey Helton here once again to provide you all with some information courtesy of the Grow Appalachia HQ. Our topic this week is bugs, so let's crawl
STRETCHING YOUR POTATO SEED
-Marcelle, Big Ugly, West Virginia Our rapidly expanding number of gardeners at Big Ugly Community Center made it necessary to re-figure our allocation of potato seed before distribution. On Thursday,
Building Muscles by Moving Manure
Eliot here from the Appalachian South Folklife Center "GASP" in Pipestem, WV. Last week felt like spring! We had our first informational meeting and met a handful of new interested
