What started as a back yard project has turned into a business. With the help of Grow Appalachia, Jered and Kelly Couch have put their chickens to work. This June Jered got his Egg Handlers License to sell eggs at the Red Bird Farmers Market and Certified Farm Market. Now the chickens can't lay eggs
..a Thousand Words. I have loved being a Grow Appalachia Coordinator from the very first moment. Like everyone else, I have been stuck in the office but recently I took time out to hit the gardens with my Field Assistant Pino Brock. We had the most amazing day visiting our members. I want to share
A Bear, some Crows & a few Dancing Girls Recently we found ourselves scratching our heads as to what happened to our rows of seedling corn grown in our garden here on the Red Bird campus. One of our colleagues came to us shortly after and solved the mystery of the disappearing corn sprouts. A
Adapting & Working Together Although the Red Bird Valley Kitchen has been closed to the public, the Red Bird Christian School was able to use the kitchen to prepare meals for local children during the month of April. Due to a widespread power outage that lasted nearly 2 weeks, the School staff was fearful that
Red Bird Strong Things may have almost come to a screeching halt in most of the nation but Grow Appalachia in Red Bird, Kentucky is still going strong. We are still distributing and tilling the earth here in the mountains and we are so thankful to have Grow Appalachia in our community. The Covid-19 pandemic
Berry Bright Future My name is Michelle Young and I am the Grow Appalachia Coordinator and the Director or Economic Opportunity at Red Bird Mission. In my position, I am always looking for ways to help the people in our community. I want to help provide access to fresh, healthy food, and to help my
Death of Black Gold Once again the people of Appalachia have taken a hard hit. Monday more coal miners were laid off with little to no notice. Thankfully they will be paid the wages they earned unlike others in our area. This time 200 workers were affected, 200 individuals who don't know how they will
Hit the Ground Tilling It's been almost 5 months since I started as the Grow Appalachia Coordinator here at Red Bird Mission and when I did, I was thrust into it full force. On the first day, I began tilling garden spots. I had only used small garden tillers in the past and here I
Open for Opportunity The kitchen here at Red Bird opened in 2017. Since then home cooks and educators have been taking advantage of this jewel tucked into the mountains of Clay County, Kentucky. The kitchen is stocked to the brim with equipment for the community to use. We have a blast chiller, a convection oven,
Changing Lives One of the greatest joys I have in being a Grow Appalachia Coordinator is seeing people do something they never knew they could. A lot of the participants have become friends of mine on Facebook. Now that the gardens are starting to yield vegetables I am seeing lots of posts about what has
