Community Food Initiatives Community Food Initiatives’ programs include community gardens, garden and culinary workshops, seed saving locally, school gardens, a youth entrepreneurship program through the local housing authority, and a Donation Station that collects, purchases, and distributes food from the farmers market and produce auctions to food pantries and social service agencies in town.

High Rocks Hillsboro, West Virginia 2011 High Rocks runs educational programs focused on critical thinking and leadership.  Our mission is to EDUCATE, EMPOWER and INSPIRE young people in West Virginia. We seek to inspire a culture of learning. Young people in the Ruby Grow Program are social enterprise business partners

Highland Educational Project The Highland Educational Project (HEP) is an outreach mission of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia, serving families in the county for over 70 years. Services include home rehabilitation, a Reading Camp for children, a food pantry, and is one of only two remaining Red Cross Shelters in the

GreenHouse17 Formerly known as the Bluegrass Domestic Violence Program, GreenHouse 17 is a 40-acre domestic violence shelter and advocacy agency dedicated to ending intimate partner abuse and its impact on families and communities. In 2014, GreenHouse 17 dedicated a commercial kitchen that has launched an entrepreneurship and apprenticeship program that residents of

Hindman Settlement School Hindman, Kentucky 2012-2022, 2024 The Settlement School’s mission is to provide education and service opportunities for people of the mountains, while keeping them mindful of their heritage. While our mission has remained the same since our founding in 1902, our programs have

First Baptist Church Corbin First Baptist Church is a community that celebrates the goodness of God’s creation and the Christian call to steward it properly. To that end, the Mustard Seed Garden at First Baptist Church was planted in the spring of 2016 to serve as a resource for educating the community

Cowan Community Action Group Whitesburg, Kentucky 2012 For over 50 years, Cowan Community Center has offered educational, social, cultural, and recreational programming in order to build a stronger and healthier community in our Letcher County, Kentucky home. Grow Appalachia has played a key part in

Breathitt County Extension Since 1914, Cooperative Extension in Kentucky has become the most comprehensive outreach and education program at the University of Kentucky. The Breathitt County Extension office has been a partner site with Grow Appalachia since 2013 and partners with the Robinson Center for Appalachian Resources Sustainability (RCARS) to grow a

Build It Up East Tennessee Johnson City, TN 2014 Build It Up East Tennessee has been working since 2012 to improve the health of the community and economy and preserve East Tennessee’s cultural heritage through the promotion of local, sustainably grown food. Participants receive access

Appalachian Sustainable Development Duffield, Virginia 2012 Since 1995, ASD has been working to grow a stronger Appalachia through agriculture. We do that through five different focus areas: Food Access, Agriculture Education, Workforce Development, Resource Management, and Economic Development. While the footprint of our work started