Bee-ginning Again
By GreenHouse17 Staff The past two years have been tough for the bees on our farm, but we have bee-gun again this month! Our staff and residents were so excited about the arrival of
By GreenHouse17 Staff The past two years have been tough for the bees on our farm, but we have bee-gun again this month! Our staff and residents were so excited about the arrival of
The last month and a half has been an absolute whirlwind as to be expected this time of year. However, yesterday I got an opportunity to slow down a
By Jason Von Kundra from Sprouting Hope in Marion, VA Spring has officially arrived with warm days, cool nights, and plenty of rain. Thanks to our dedicated volunteers who have
Hey all, this is Yvonne from Wolfe County Grow Appalachia. For several years lately, I've suffered from a different type of spring fever. While my hands and feet itch to
Photo taken from the Xerces Society publication "Nests for Native Bees" Bees are a critically important insect to almost anyone who eats fruits, and EVERYONE who eats honey.
The bees were kind enough to pollinate our corn this week. Here is a portion of this week's harvest, which will be used to help feed guests at the Settlement School.
WOW! Our garden spots have really been doing great. We harvested less than a third of our leaf lettuce so far, it was almost a bushels worth before cleaning and
our youngest helper and his Dad monday nite loading leaf mulch Blown over tool shed. shredded paper from squash garden shredded paper in
This week we would like to highlight one of our new participants, Ms Teresa Young. This is one very interesting and talented lady. Ms. Young has a love of gardening
Back in November of 2012 when we were thinking of adding beekeeping to our menu of Grow Appalachia offerings for participants, we got really lucky when Dave showed up at