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
My name is Michelle Collett-Young and this is my first blog as a Grow Appalachia Coordinator at Red Bird Mission. The counties that I serve are Clay, Leslie and Bell in Southeastern Kentucky. I started working for Grow Appalachia in Clay County two months ago and my life has become so much more wonderful since
Travis again, we had an amazing time with our first training for our gardening season this year. Attendance was great, had a great time meeting the new Grow Appalachia members of this program & seeing some of those who participated in previous years. We gave out "Blue Goose - Kennebec" seed potatoes & "Mountain Pride"
Travis here, hoping everyone has been staying dry from all this rain we've been getting. First sign of dry weather would be a great time to get those gardens tilled up in case of spring showers. We have made a few lay outs of some of our gardens & how we may want them to
Travis Adkins again from Red Bird Mission. With gardening season just around the corner, don't forget to warm up your tillers and tractors. Sharpen those tiller tines or replace wore out tines with new ones. Make sure your hoes, shovels and rakes are sharpened and ready to go. With all this weather we've been having,
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
