by Erica at High RocksDerecho was a new term for me.  Spanish for straight, it means a storm with very high winds that travel in a straight line. (Compare to

by Erica at High Rocks I’ve got some catching up to do!  Typically I update the blog at the end of each week.  I didn’t expect that a quiet breeze

photo by Angelo JiordanoThis week began with a workshop hosted by our partners at the Good Earth Garden, a community garden at the birthplace of author Pearl S Buck.  Gardener

Summer camps have begun and that means that our camp gardens are starting to feed scores of young girls and women.   They are plucking fresh salad fixings just steps from

This week youngsters got their hands dirty in the High Rocks community garden.  A the “Use Your Noodle” day camp, elementary school kids learned that gardening can be fun and

Greetings from High Rocks!  Last week we distributed most of the plants in the hoop house to our participants.  Our “Meet the Seedlings” event brought people up to High Rocks

 It is so exciting how big our plants are growing. We are inviting participants up to High Rocks to pick up their plants. The peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers will be

"Meet the Seedlings" will be the next participant workshop at High Rocks.  We will be handing out the starts from our hoop house and tools that we have purchased for our participants

This week over a dozen High Rocks girls attended a gardening class at the campground in Hillsboro, WV. Project leaders Karline Jensen and Mica Baum-Tuccillo gave participants an interactive session

Last weekend more than 80 people came out to a local Wild Edibles festival hosted by the Pocahontas Co. Nature club and the Hillsboro Library.   Guest speaker Mimi Hernandez waxed folkloric about our