This month most people are seeing the end of their summer garden here. Cucumbers are slowly fading away, the heat from mid July and early August deterred most people from doing a lot in the community garden. There were a few dedicated growers that kept it going and have already started cleaning out their beds
Summer's Bounty This is the month that everyone gets excited because summer's bounty is pouring in from the gardens. Beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, & melons are ripening all at once and we wait expectantly for the perfect time to pick them. We don't want to wait too long and lose them to the wildlife competition,
Bea Sias, Logan, WV Step by Step It seems that once we get started well with our gardening season, and with a snap of the fingers it is over. We really are too busy to get to enjoy the fruits of our hard labor. But there has definitely been some busy people in Logan County
In the spring we dealt with a late start to the growing season, hungry critters (in my case chipmunks, deer, and Peter Rabbit). Then summer came, and it seemed to get off to a nice wet start; unfortunately, the early summer rains didn’t continue, and the promise of an ideal growing season evaporated along with
Salsa! Salsa! Salsa! After learning preservation techniques for extra harvested vegetables, many of our farmers have found salsa as a favorite. Salsa can be made with many different recipes. Some families in the mountains have family-favorite recipes that have been passed down for generations. Salsa
Greetings! We are just coming off of our big event for the season - Linwood Alive's annual Farm to Fork Dinner, where this year we raised over $5000. Time is donated by decorators, chefs, musicians, yoga teachers and more. Watching the pillars of our community band together to get this event underway is always amazing,
Open for Opportunity The kitchen here at Red Bird opened in 2017. Since then home cooks and educators have been taking advantage of this jewel tucked into the mountains of Clay County, Kentucky. The kitchen is stocked to the brim with equipment for the community to use. We have a blast chiller, a convection oven,
In the first article I wrote for Grow Appalachia, I discussed how that Grow Appalachia was helping the residents of Appalachia to recover the past. Grow Appalachia helps to recover the past by teaching a new generation how to plow, plant, harvest and can (preserve). Throughout the year, I have shared some of the lessons
After all this talk of gardening techniques, seeds, and soil, we can’t forget the original purpose of a garden – to grow food! On Monday, July 15th, Derek Nottingham from Guest Services visited Boys Home to give a cooking demonstration using some of the fresh produce from the garden. The focus for the morning
