The weather may be growing cooler, but students at Boys Home are hanging on to the growing season a little bit longer. As part of a unit on plants and farming, Ms. Anderson’s middle school class has been busy practicing their gardening skills. The unit started with learning about plant cells. From there, lessons grew
Fall is finally settling in and we're looking forward to some rest, as I mentioned last month. The leaves are changing colors, our fall gardens are taking off, and our final harvests are pouring in. The sweet potato crop was a wonderful success for some and a complete failure for others. Some years you soar
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
Seasons Our year is divided into different seasons for a reason and I'm so thankful that we're moving into a season of rest. The earth needs to rest and we need to rest in order to rejuvenate for the coming seasons. Harvest Before that season of rest gets underway, we have a season of harvest
I had the massive pleasure of heading back to Linwood and Snowshoe last weekend and was able to check out our high tunnel, community garden and the Pocahontas County Farmers Market while I was there. I spent a good long while munching Pareso tomatoes, which to me are everything a tomato should be: meaty and
--Karline Jensen, High Rocks, Hillsboro, WV We planted some fall salads at our Season Extension workshops on August 20 and 21. Guess what, it has only rained a half an inch since. We watered them really well when we planted them, and then I was able to water them two more times. It hasn't rained
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,
In the first article I wrote for Grow Appalachia, I discussed how that Grow Appalachia was helping the residents of Appalachia to recover the past. Grow Appalachia helps to recover the past by teaching a new generation how to plow, plant, harvest and can (preserve). Throughout the year, I have shared some of the lessons
We're in the midst of a heat wave and our crops are bursting with juicy flavor. Here's our gallery of gardens and some quotes of what this garden program has meant to our gardeners. Enjoy! Grow Appalachia has been very helpful to me, they gave me seeds and fertilizer that I couldn't afford to buy,
