Watch Us Grow As Grow Wayne enters its fourth year with Grow Appalachia, our program continues to grow. This year there are some new faces, new places, and a few changes happening. Grow Wayne began in Wayne (as you may have guessed) and has since expanded into bordering counties: Cabell and Lincoln. We
Out here in Wayne County, we've all been busy - our gardeners are gathering trellis netting, starting seeds, and preparing their beds for the growing season, and ACCESS WV team members have been working on an exciting new development in the town of Wayne. Through support provided by Try This WV and in collaboration with
Growing & Healing in the Garden Hi! I’m Marcella Romeo, from Cross Lanes, West Virginia . Like some people in the area, I grew up helping my parents with gardening & yard work. I also had the pleasure of growing up living on a ‘farm’ with my parents and grandparents, so I would
My father had always had a garden, ever since I was big enough to remember. When I was little, we all helped some in planting, harvesting, etc., but I was truly never interested in growing vegetables or preserving anything. I always hated having to get out there and help and on more than one occasion
Out on the West End of Huntington there is a church named St. Peters. St. Peters is an Episcopalian church and like most churches of this denomination it has a long-standing tradition of outreach, community feeds, tent drives and in one case cold weather sheltering during the cold snap we experienced last winter. In its
Our Garden Community Gardens are growing this new 2021 season. We have such a great showcase of gardeners in our Grow Appalachia ACCESS WV group. From the onset of the growing season, we have grown, not only in our gardens, but in our community spirit. Our participants have been actively chatting it up
Here in Wayne, WV we’re responding to historic flooding in March of 2021, on the heels of historic ice storms in February, just weeks before, following a year of a global pandemic, during a multi-year downturn in the post-coal economy, in a region with too many families devastated by nearly a decade of an opioid
The Year 2020 will go down in history as a lot of things, ‘unprecedented’, ‘tumultuous’, but here in Wayne, we will remember the year 2020 as a rebirth of the family garden. When we applied to be a Grow Appalachia partner site in 2019 for the 2020 gardening year, we had no idea what to
Garden Visits Galore! Our garden visits have been a wonderful experience. I hope you enjoy a sneak peak at just how wonderful Wayne County gardens are growing this summer even during a global pandemic. Our first stop Rayetta "Mamaw" Osburn's farm on Beech Fork Road. Rayetta has been through so much this year
It’s amazing, really. How rapidly our normal, day-to-day existence, transformed in a matter of hours. And how the transformation from co-work spaces, community gatherings, and family functions to social distancing and self-isolation, also transformed our ability to have access to some of life’s most basic necessities…FOOD! From the onset of this pandemic reaching the US,
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