The Golden Tomato
Gardener Mary Anne and her Golden Tomato Award This year at our End of Season Potluck we celebrated another wonderful growing season. We are so proud of our
Fall Gardening in East Tennessee
It’s nearly the first week of September and it’s time to think about fall in the garden. Are your green bean leaves yellowing and your cucumbers dying back? If so,
Preserving the Summer Harvest
Our gardeners have been busy keeping up with their harvests and of course the summer weeds. To help our new gardeners learn how to preserve their harvest we have been
Garden Visits Begin at Build It Up East TN
Garden visits have started here at Build It Up East TN. We have enjoyed the start to garden visit season and getting to see our gardeners spaces first hand. All
Drip Irrigation for the Home Gardener
One of our wonderful backyard gardeners, Jacqueline, wrote a great blog post all about drip irrigation in the home garden. We thought we would share her words with you all
Build It Up Gardeners Growing Together
Plant starts grown for BIU by a local farm April started off with our first plant pick up of the year. I stood under a bare tree with
Spring Brassica Planting Tips + Kale Pesto Recipe
Hello everyone! Spring is here at the Build It Up program in East Tennessee and our gardeners just got their first plant starts of the season. We partnered with a
What’s New with Build It Up
Hello and happy new gardening year! We are so stoked to be back for another year with Grow Appalachia. This year, we have quite a few changes that we are
Gardener Spotlight Story: George and Cathy Carey
To finish up the year, I wanted to share a post from the people who matter most, our gardeners! George and Cathy Carey have been diligently gardening with us for
A Month of Canning and Cooking
With August, brought a series of canning and cooking workshops! We partnered with Carter County Extension here in East TN to put on a series of canning and cooking workshops
