Williamson Health and Wellness Center
Williamson, WV (Mingo County)
Partner Site since: 2013
The Williamson Health and Wellness Center, as part of the Sustainable Williamson initiative, oversees a substantial community garden, a Mobile Farmers Market, and a partnership with Growing Warriors to introduce veterans into agriculture and farming in Mingo County and surrounding areas. The veterans utilize high tunnel space to grow produce that they sell at the Farmers Market, as well as attend and lead workshops.
Blogs from Williamson
Harvesting the Rain
For the last two years, in addition to the rain that falls on the raised beds, our garden has depended solely on city water. Since we have had access to an unlimited and free supply,
Mad Dog Gardening
Yesterday we hosted our first workshop of the season with our garden participants (and a few others from the community). Although it was still a little chilly and cloudy, we decided to keep the workshop
So much to say..so little time
I knew that starting in March we were going to be busy..but I must admit I did not think that time would be moving this fast already! I wanted to take the time in this
Keep on Truckin
By the time this blog is posted, it will almost be March, which means it will almost be spring, which is a slightly terrifying but mostly exciting!!…In the last post I mentioned how so far
Calm before the storm
Entering my second year as the Grow Appalachia site coordinator, I have found myself much better suited and better prepared for the upcoming spring and summer months. After some experimenting with some different ideas last
Fall is upon us
This week we had the first of two fall planting events at the Williamson community garden. As summer sadly and rapidly has come to a close, most of their plants were pretty much done producing;
