Recruiting Market Gardeners in East TN
Lexy here from Build It Up East TN. We are on our last day of recruitment for participants in our Market Garden Program for 2015. We originally planned to recruit
Sprouting Seeds of Change
The weather roller coaster is still going on in Greene County, TN. Hi everyone, Debbie here with Rural Resources, patiently waiting the roller coaster with all the ups and downs
NPK (And other letters, too)
Howdy family, Jeffrey here from “grown zero” in Berea, and I’m mostly just happy because I haven’t made an awful blog pun in a while. (Is awful really the word,
The Dirt on Soil Health
Greetings, Grow Appalachians! It’s your friendly HQ VISTA Holly checking in. I think I’m still not quite recovered from our gathering this past week. What an AMAZING day and a
Test Pattern–A Personal Story
This one is for Candace. Hi all, Sister Kathy here. The other evening at the All Hands Gathering at Berea, after a delicious supper and wonderful conversations in the dining
Grow Appalachia: A Community of Enthusiasm, Gratitude and Generosity
-Michael Tierney, Big Ugly As I write I am still buzzing with ideas and connections from the Grow Appalachia All Hands Gathering this past week. I’ve been involved with community
Spring is nigh..
Groundhog shadow or not, I am seeing spring on the horizon! Tomorrow Grow Your Own will be hosting its first planting session of 2015 with a group of special needs
To market without using the M word
-Step by Step, Logan County, West Virginia Marketing still scares off a number of our new gardeners. Many of them are from the “lost generation” around here—grandparents all had big
Keeping the winter crop warm
It might not look like much but underneath the plastic is deep winter gold – baby kale. Planted thick in early October, in a spot that gets the most sunlight
2015 is gonna be a good year
This is a fall picture. But the hoops still stand covering spinach and carrots that were planted in October. This year we are getting a much better start
