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
Gardens are GREAT! For teaching; for learning! For cooking; for Eating!
Greetings from Park Place! Deni here, blogging about the exciting time we had in the garden! School is back in session and kids at Abingdon High were SO excited to
Why Grow Your Own?
This is an excerpt for an article I wrote in the Bristol-Harold Courier, explaining the benefits of growing your own produce... There are a number of reasons why families choose
Pigweed – The Spiny Kind
Greetings from Park Place! Deni here - at the Vance Garden, we're fighting mile high spiny amaranth or spiny pigweed. This nasty weed is tricky to work with because of
Garden Makeover
As many of you know, Grow Your Own hosts a demonstration garden at the Abingdon, VA Faith in Action food pantry. Up until recently, it has been difficult to maintain
Spicy Kale Chips
Greetings from Park Place Over the past few weeks, Grow Your Own has been partnering with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, holding workshops once a week to promote healthy living. Grow
Beets in Buckets
Greetings from Park Place! On July 25th Devan Crabtree, my fellow summer VISTA, and I went up to the Vance Community Garden. It was a light work day as it
A Very Good Bug
The Assasin Bug; rightly named for the characteristic of stabbing it's prey with it's long proboscis, injects its prey with a lethal saliva that liquefies the insides of the prey,
A July Work Day
Greetings from Park Place! Mid July; already! And the garden is alive and producing! The following blog was written by AmeriCorps Summer VISTA, Austin Neely, who is new to the
Why Wash Your Produce?
Summer Heat; One of the most important reasons why washing your produce is important. Field Heat can be retained in bunched produce for hours; reducing the quality and the nutritional
