When Berea Kids Eat initially launched the COVID 19 Pandemic meal response shortly after school closures, Berea Community School staff and faculty helped fill the labor gaps and ensure that operations continued in Spring of 2020. However, by the Summer of 2020, Berea Kids Eat was confronted with a labor
Hey everyone! Kayla here, just dropping in to share a story of a unique and educational experience Ive recently had working for Grow Appalachia. Earlier this week I spent a wonderful 3 days in between two beautifully tree covered mountains in Eastern Kentucky at the Hindman Settlement School teaching a group of college students
Good afternoon Grow Appalachians! I hope you are feeling ready for a little break this Memorial Day weekend. I certainly am! This post is a little bit of a recycle that I wrote back in 2015, but since so many of you readers are new folks, I figured I'd revive things a little. Plus, a
Since the beginning, the heartbeat- for lack of a better word- of Grow Appalachia is that of its participants. To date, Grow Appalachia has reached more than 4,000 unduplicated families. These families and participants are as unique and diverse as the central Appalachian region itself. We collect a lot of numerical data in the form of
Happy Friday Grow Appalachians! Things here at HQ are taking off at the speed of light, and with many new plans and changes on the horizon, it's sure to be another busy summer! Speaking of summer... Believe it or not, folks, we are just about six weeks away from the first day of summer (June
Last year, the first year of the USDA Sponsored Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) in Berea, a team of Berea College student interns and labor students, as well as 2 AmeriCorps members, 1 AmeriCorps VISTA, and 1 full-time staff member delivered the following results in just 78 days: 13,880 total meals served 4,843 breakfast meals
Howdy folks! I for one am happy to see that the chilly rainy weather we had last weekend is not sticking around! (Boy, I sure do talk about the weather a lot...) Anyway, on to the blog... April is National Garden Month, and we are big proponents of using our blogs and newsletters to dish
Earth Day is the day in which the big, beautiful, natural wonder of our life-sustaining planet is celebrated. Always on April 22, Earth Day began in 1970 as a somewhat official launch of the modern environmental awareness movement. Millions of Americans rallying towards a more healthy and sustainable environment gathered that day in numerous coast-to-coast
Ohhh, this weather is making me siiiinnnngggggg!!! :) Happy Easter weekend, folks! GA HQ is closed for Good Friday so you're getting a blog a day early before we dash off into the sunset of a 3-day weekend. Last week in the newsletter we looked at 5 gardening tools that make the tasks at hand a cinch.
Like any occupation or hobby that requires manual labor, be it construction, hunting, or gardening, it's a known fact that a good tool either makes or breaks the job at hand. Many people opt for quality over quantity, selecting the higher priced tool simply because they know it will last longer and perform better. While
