Spring is finally here! (maybe)
It's been a long and cold winter up here on the mountain, with many plantings and preparations for the growing season being delayed by cold snaps and snow. Now we
It's been a long and cold winter up here on the mountain, with many plantings and preparations for the growing season being delayed by cold snaps and snow. Now we
Unfortunately, it seems this unusually cold winter is going to be slow to leave us. Here it is, in March, and we still have an inch of snow on the
The end of 2013 is bittersweet. My time at Pine Mountain and with the Grow Appalachia family is coming to an end. I've spend the last four growing seasons with
The Grow Appalachia program has been a blessing for the Pine Mountain Community and for Pine Mountain Settlement School over these past four years. As the growing season comes to
The past three and a half years with Grow Appalachia have taught me a lot, but one of the things I've really grown to love and appreciate is seed saving.
This week’s blog is easier to write than most in some ways, I don’t have to rack my brain for a new and interesting topic, and I have no research
Several weeks ago Maggie and I made our annual appearance on the “World’s only live radio cooking show, that we know of” at Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY. For the past
Despite the fact that it has been quite warm and summer like this week, fall is only about a week away and it is probably time to clean up your
I don’t think I know a single gardener in our Grow Appalachia program that isn't growing beans. Most of our gardeners are in fact growing lots and lots of beans.
I didn’t grow up in the South, far from it really, but I did grow up with a mother from Missouri who insisted that we eat black-eyed peas and greens