Jessica and family are a first time garden family. Here are her words about our backyard gardening program here in Morristown, TN. This garden experience has been amazing. I'm Jessica, a wife, school nurse, and mother of three. I have always wanted a garden and to share the experience with my kids, but I never
We are back with an update on Brandi's garden. Everyone is doing much better! After being faced with some major setbacks, this family needed some help. I took a look at the situation and realized that despite the really tall grass, the food was doing ok and there was a lot of it! It
First off … everyone’s ok and getting better but about a week ago, I received a “can we talk?” text from one of our garden grant gardeners. We talked. She was embarrassed and sounded stressed and defeated and tired. She’s had not one but two major setbacks in the past weeks and has reached
We have the beginnings of an amazing garden grant program here at Central Services in Morristown, TN. It's our first year but our gardeners are fantastic and they have the gardens to prove it! But what makes great gardens ... gardeners that ask a lot of questions! After working through the same questions over
As a new site coordinator of a new Grow Appalachia site, who had never even heard of Grow Appalachia until August of last year, I’m learning not only how to run a successful garden grant program but also how & why the program works. To me it sounded like this… buy stuff, give it away,
Last night, I met most of our gardeners in person for the first time at our garden planing workshop. It was great to see the excitement as they mapped out and made their plans for the upcoming growing season. For most of our gardeners this is their firsts garden as well. Meeting so many beginners
