Excitement for Growing Season Builds
May 2021 Everything is going okay for my gardeners and me. It’s still cold and wet, and the weather reports are unpredictable - more like April than May. This next week
Late Winter Garden Pleasures
Marcelle St. Germain, Big Ugly April, 2021 With the garden resting during the winter, our gardeners tend to take a long, well-deserved break from growing their food. But some
Spring Arrives In Big Ugly
March, 2021 The gardening season is off to a slow start with very late seed deliveries this year after a cold and icy February. Finally, now in mid-March a
Last Workshop of the Season
Marcelle St. Germain, Step by Step, Big Ugly, West Virginia Our group of Grow Appalachia gardeners had our last workshop of the year on September 28, 2019. We were delighted
Surprises from the Compost
Marcelle St.Germain Step by Step, Big Ugly Like opening a gift under a Christmas tree, watching what grows out of the compost is always a wonderful surprise. You just know
Growing Plants with Our Youth
Marcelle St. Germain Step by Step, Big Ulgy, West Virginia The staff at Big Ugly Community Center lead by Tami Boling have been serving children and their families in the
Sweating it out in the Gardens
Marcelle St. Germain Big Ugly, West Virginia Our gardeners are sweating it out in their gardens as the heat index has hit 100 degrees and higher for the last week.
Good Reports Are Coming In
Bea Sias Step by Step_Logan, WV We have been getting some good reports from our gardeners... of course, sometimes one may encounter a little pest like the cute ground squirrel
SWEET POTATO BLUES
Marcelle St.Germain, Step by Step Big Ugly, West Virginia Sweet potatoes are one of our favorite crops to grow at BUCC. Early in the spring we generally order 1,000 sweet
Safe Gardening during COVID-19
Bea Sias, Step by Step Logan County, WV Recently we gave out plants in the Man, WV area from 9:00-12:30. We wore masks, used lots of hand sanitizer, and delivered
