Grow Your Own, 2015 Edition
Brian here - With the Spring Equinox on the horizon, Grow Your Own will be commencing its first set of 2015 workshops starting March 17th at 5PM! It may be
Row Cover Everything!
Good morning fellow Appalachians, Last week marked a chaotic shift into an early winter.. last Thursday it got down to 17 degrees and we were forced to cover all of
Hidatsa Beans!
Greetings from Park Place! Deni here with thoughts about dry beans. Did you know that dried beans are a fantastic source of potassium - which builds muscles in your body?
What is it about Digging Potatoes?
Deni here; reporting for Park Place Not sure how it became November; I remember cutting and planting potatoes just the other day... now, we're eating them! What is it about
Open for Business
I am proud to officially announce that Grow Your Own has officially begun to sell its excess produce to local business. Thanks to the partnership of Rooted in Appalachia we have
Student Build the First Edible Park in Southwest VA
Greetings from Park Place; Deni here - reporting on an incredible month of activity. Not sure which to share first, so I'll start with the Edible Park. On October 1,
An Amazing Team Effort to Build Not One But Two Hoop Houses
Greetings from Park Place; Deni here... recovering from an amazing week last week! Big, NO: HUGE Shout out to Mark Walden for his incredible skills at Coordinating the building of
Harder Soil, Harsher Climates
In recent weeks I have noticed that the soil in one of our fields has become increasingly stiff, making it near impossible to plant. Our newly planted spinach seedlings have
Potatoes Out; Fall Brassicas IN!
Greetings from Park Place, Deni here reporting on one of the Park Place gardens. It's time to get the potatoes out of the ground and since the soils are being
The benefits of crop rotation & garden mapping
Crop rotation is an essential element to organic farming/gardening, and creating a garden map is the easiest way to remember where your plants were and when. Recently, Deni taught me
