Bea Sias, Step by Step, Logan County It is now the first week in October 2018 and I am continuing to get a Produce Report from most of my gardeners. This season has been very good, most gardeners will tell you, and some will say it was a fair gardening season. I know that Green
M. St. Germain Step by Step, Big Ugly Harvest reports are getting finalized this month and we are very pleased with our growing effort this year. We think that 2018 will probably be one of our top two years in terms of the total harvest. Our last workshop was held at Big Ugly Community Center
Michael Tierney, Big Ugly Step by Step One of the advantages of being around for a long time (Big Ugly Community Center is 23 this fall, Step by Step is 30) is that when people are looking for partners for out of the box ideas, they think of us. On October 6, Big Ugly Community
Bea Sias, Logan County Step by Step On August 10th, 2018, Grow Appalachia, Pride Organization and Word of Life Church, and twenty or more other schools threw a BACK TO SCHOOL BASH for the students and parents in Logan County. We had health services, Vision and other things to check for the adults. They
Michael Tierney Step by Step, Big Ugly The opportunities to have access to healthy foods (and the skills and knowledge to integrate them into day to day survival) are greatly complicated for families caught up in the drug epidemic in West Virginia. The counties our Grow Appalachia sites serve in southern West Virginia (Lincoln, Logan,
Bea Sias Logan County, Step by Step For 2 days, July 30th and 31st, we learned to can Peppers. There were two different kinds of recipes: hot banana and sweet banana peppers.Several people showed up including men and women and one woman who just wanted to learn. At the first workshop on Monday we had
Marcelle St. Germain Big Ugly, West Virginia We are now seeing a lot of our crops starting to mature as we finally received enough rainfall in the last 4 days to make a difference. May, June and the first half of July were particularly dry for these parts. (Fortunately, the very wet spring had thoroughly
Bea Sias, Step by Step, Logan County I would like to tell you a little about my Gardeners. Some of them have minor health problems, aches, and pains, but they do not complain, and they do not let the aches and pains interfere with their gardening. They work longer in that garden every day (weather
Marcelle St. Germain, Big Ugly West Virginia After a slow start, the 2018 growing season is now in full swing. Harvesting has begun in earnest as the spring crops are being brought to the table and preserved. Peas, beets, broccoli, greens, and early green beans are ripe to be picked. We have also enjoyed for
Bea Sias, Logan West Virginia It all started last spring at the Buffalo Creek Memorial Library in Man, WV. The Librarian, Liz, always has a story hour on Wednesday of each week. This one Wednesday, she was weeding her raised beds and putting onions sets in the ground. Naturally, when the children arrived at the
