Map of 2025 Garden Grant Partners
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Stories from Our Partners
Heart-Healthy Cooking with Mama Yawah Awolowo
In mid-September, we hosted an amazing cooking class with food educator, land steward, and long-time vegan/vegetarian chef Mama Yawah Awolowo! Yawah was raised in East Knoxville and operated a vegan restaurant
“Old Hands, Young Hands”
As we close out the 2025 growing season here in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, I keep thinking about hands. Old hands, steady as a metronome after fifty summers of hoeing rows.
The End of A Great Season
As our first season comes to a close, we have been reflecting over our successes and missteps. We are very proud of the amount of produce that we were able to grow
Growing Your Own Mushrooms: A Hands-On Workshop
This past month, we had an amazing time at our mushroom growing workshop, led by Tracie Goodman of McCreary County extension! Our participants were very excited to learned how to cultivating their
Jamming Time!
It’s that time of year again, when we can and freeze and preserve our harvests and make delicious things to eat over the cold winter months. Just tasting these things can take
End of the Growing Season?
It’s hard to believe that the end of the 2025 growing season is coming to a close. Countless quarts and pints of pickles, green beans, tomatoes, and more have been canned or
A Season of Triumph and Growth
We are thrilled to celebrate one of our dedicated growers, Beverly Hackworth, who brought home top honors from this year’s Kentucky State Fair! Beverly entered the Large Hot Peppers category, competing against
The Great Green Bean Battle
Going Gently into the Fall As the gardening season begins to wind down we start to see the leaves change colors and feel a little crips to the air, the Leslie County
“Laughter makes the day”
These words spoken by Grow Appalachia member, Maurica Cornett on a late August afternoon, are words which I could not agree with more. Especially after spending that particular afternoon chopping, slicing,
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