Travis here, as we close another year for Grow Appalachia here at Red Bird Mission. We would like to thank all of those who have supported us through out this year. Jeff Casada and Lora Lee Howard from the Clay County Extension Office and Ray Wilson from the Leslie County Extension Office for coming out
Travis again, I guess you could say, we are remodeling our green house. Upgrading everything for a more professional and durable green house. We upgraded the irrigation system from 2” PVC pipe to ½” polyethylene drip irrigation distribution tubing with 360 large circle micro sprayers to cover more watering area. We also attached a timer
Travis here, I went to the "Maximizing High Tunnel Production" Field Day that Organic Association of Kentucky "OAK" hosted at Good Thymes Organic Farm in Williamsburg KY on Thursday September 6th. The field day was very informative and had a lot of good speakers there. We would like to thank OAK for having us and
Travis here again, we are happy to say that our cold storage room is almost complete. All we like now is to install the insulation panels to the cold room. This is gonna be a great way for our farmers to have more shelf life for their produce. We had a green bean donation come
Travis Adkins again, our Farmers Market has been a fun and exciting start to this farming season. Our farmers love coming out and swapping stories on how to better each others crop, what crops they like best, etc. Our market allows our farmers to sale any locally grown produce they have grown on their
Travis again, wanna give a big thanks to Pineview Farms for the plants we purchased to give our growers at our last training. The last training was over"Basic Garden Maintenance". Thanks to Jeff Casada from the Clay County Extension Office for being our speaker again for this training and answering the questions some of our
Travis Adkins here at Red Bird Mission, we had service week here on campus for some of our students at Red Bird Christian School on April 19th and 20th. We had a lot of fun planting strawberry plants in one of our raised beds. We also planted some tomato and pepper seeds in our green
This is Travis Adkins from Red Bird Mission again. I attended the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Training on Thursday, March 22nd. The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) awards grants to States, United States Territories, and federally-recognized Indian tribal governments to provide low-income seniors with coupons that can be exchanged for eligible foods (fruits,
This is Travis at Red Bird Mission. I attended the Eastern Kentucky Farmer Conference (EKFC) on February 22nd and 23rd. Where I learned a lot about taking care of my crops, having a good partner, learned more about value added products and what kind of certifications you need for different types of value added products.
