Not-So-Fantastic Bugs and How to Find Them
It will happen at some point or another- you step into your garden, that almost tingling feeling of excitement and anticipation as you get closer and closer to see what
First week of SFSP is in the bag!
Happy Friday Grow Appalachians! We've most certainly had a busy week here at headquarters! In addition to planning site visits and trying to figure out how to combat all this
Pull Them and Eat Them Too: Edible Weeds
Weeds are often seen as an insurmountable force, an unbearable nuisance, an overwhelming enemy in the garden, all of which ensure the utmost of destruction must take place. Before you
Growing Gardens (and Youth)
Happy end of the week Grow Appalachians and all! And just like that...we're halfway through May! Here in Berea, campus activity has slowed to a quiet lull, students having disappeared
Flowers for Pollinators
Pollinators are insects or other invertebrates/small mammals that move pollen from the male components of a flower to the female components, thus resulting in the plant becoming fertilized. Only fertilized plants
NRCS Cultural Diversity Day
Howdy Grow Appalachians! Holly from HQ, writing with open windows in the office! Yep, it's that time of year...finally! After spending last weekend in Chicago, this is a much welcomed
A Brassicas Bonanza
Happy Friday, Grow Appalachia cohort! Holly from HQ, here to share a little bit about brassicas. I was on vacation earlier this week so if what you read seems a bit
Cooperating With Mother Nature
Howdy Grow Appalachia collective! Holly on behalf of HQ, not completely recovered from another gathering that's come and gone just like that! Let me tell you- it was my second
Ugly Fruits and Veggies
Ever grown an ugly fruit or veggie? An oddly shaped tomato or a potato that looks like a duck? Did you eat it or toss it into the trash? If
Introducing: Pollen “2.0”
Happy Friday, Grow Appalachia collective! Holly from HQ here, and it's February already! What?! Back in November of 2014, our then-HQ VISTA Jeffrey Helton launched Pollen, an online literary publication
