Mark Walden’s Site Visit and Training
This week, Mark Walden, Assistant Director Grow Appalachia at Berea College, came by to give our participants training on Cold Weather Gardening. He arrived early, so we could take him to see
Looking At The Big Picture
When the weather makes it hard to stay on top of your garden, it’s easy to fall into thinking that you had a bad year. Maybe your tomatoes blighted out
Fall Gardening
After helping our participants get ready for their fall gardens (gladly, of course), we finally got around to planting ours. We have our raised beds planted with bush beans, a
Fall Planning
The time is here to start planning for our fall gardens. When our campus garden was flooded out, the soil composition was disrupted and our summer garden became sedentary and
Clover Creek Farm and the Mason Family
On August 7th, we loaded up and went to Frakes, Ky to meet with our participants out at Clover Creek Farm. Upon arriving there, we were greeted with smiles and
Third Annual Fall Harvest Celebration Picnic
Last night we held our third annual fall harvest celebration picnic and it was AWESOME !!! We had forty seven of our members attend all who brought dishes prepared form
What’s a High Tunnel?
I'm sure many of you already know a thing or two about high tunnels, but I had no idea what exactly a high tunnel was before interning at Grow Appalachia.
Wolf Family Hightunnel
This week we were blessed with the presence of Mark Walden,Grow Appalachia's Assistant Director, and Lindsey Harper,Grow Appalachia Intern, to work with Chip and I on constructing a high tunnel
Busy, Busy, Busy
This has been a very busy week at Red Bird Mission. We would like to thank our members for a very successful Farmer's Market
Our Week At Red Bird Mission
This week brought a wonderful donation offer to the Grow Appalachia Red Bird Mission site. I was contacted by a warehouse owner just north of Knoxville Tennessee who has thousands
