This week some volunteers and I made a few home visits to see how our participants gardens are growing and to offer some help to those who could

Here at Red Bird Mission the Grow Appalachia crew is working on getting stakes and cane poles for all of our participants' tomatoes and beans. This has been a pretty

      Yesterday Karen and I finished planting our Grow Appalachia community garden. We now have a nice variety of vegetables growing here on campus and in our participants family

This week we are making our final push to get these gardens prepared and planted. We had a couple of gardens that we were unable to get plowed with a

We had beautiful weather last week and were able to get a lot of garden planting done. Here at Red Bird Mission we planted several raised beds with cole crops

Just when you are getting all excited about your gardens, WHAM! A FROST.  Then it warms up, you get all excited about how the little veggies are doing and.....BAM! another

       This will be another very productive week for Grow Appalachia and Red Bird Mission. We helped the E.C.D Early Childhood Development (2-6 years old) class plan their garden layout

This week we have several nursing students from University of Tennessee as well as folks from Ohio, volunteering with our project.  Gathering seeds for distribution and visiting gardens is a

Getter Done!- Red Bird Mission      Seeds, plants, and paperwork.  That was the thrust of our meeting last Thursday night.  We had a presentation on garden layout and crop rotation

This has been a very productive week for Grow Appalachia here at Red Bird Mission. We got a lot accomplished with the help of volunteers from the University of Tennessee,