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
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
