Our gardens are slowing fizzling out & the nights are getting colder. Is it time to put out gardens to bed or should we plant our Cole crops now & look for a new season of harvest?! For some of us, this is the BEST time to get into the garden!! It's not as hot
Those 40 degree nights and days in the 60s and 70s sure was nice earlier this month. Now it is back up in the 80s and those fall veggies are getting their grow on. What's growing in your garden? Our growers are growing varieties of cabbage, broccoli, kale, mustard, collards, swiss chard, radish, turnip, beets, carrots, lettuce, spinach,
I would like for everyone to meet my son, David Bentlee Adkins, he was born September 7, 2017. He weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces and was 21 inches long. He was born with a head full of hair. It is a completely different feeling becoming a parent. I love my son more then anything and
This time of year often brings questions surrounding a fruit that many have long forgotten. Just the mention of it, however, takes some people straight back to their childhood to recall a fruit that I have found is either loved or hated. As a youngster, I knew the fruit existed. It was talked about a
Fall is knocking. Cool nights make summer sleeping more bearable than the sweltering nights of July. Pantries are full of green beans, tomatoes, jams, jellies, and relishes and potatoes fill the darkest and coolest places of our homes. The onions rest drying waiting for their place in the larder. Plants left for seed are drying
As the summer draws to a close here in Corbin, KY, participants of the Mustard Seed Garden are beginning to reflect on our 2017 growing season and are finding reason to celebrate a successful year of food and fellowship. Yes, we have just planted a few fall crops; and yes, we still have okra, tomatoes,
In the past month, Grow Breathitt County members have been seeing good harvests from their gardens including, tomatoes, squash, green beans, and potatoes. We hope that the good harvests continue in the months to come.
As of today, our Grow Appalachia families in Wise County, Virginia have produced over 2300 pounds of vegetables (and a few berries) in 2017! Given that most growers got a late start, and the momentum continues to build, I expect the final tally for the year to surpass two tons. On Saturday, we held the
Some say it might be the end of the world. Some say, plant some cabbage. I think I will opt for the latter on this rare, special day of the total solar eclipse in the USofA. Though a number of our Wolfe families are suffering bad deer damage in their summer gardens, even with using
Market Gardening became the focus of a few of our families this year. We started out just hoping to encourage folks to get their hands dirty in the garden and feed their families, but ended up encouraging several of them to sell their excess at the local farmer's markets! What a successful year it turned
