Organic Gardening Program
Learn to grow, cook, and preserve organic food from your garden!
What started in Wayne County in 2020, but has since expanded to Cabell and Lincoln counties as well, our program offers organic gardening education, support, supplies, and community building opportunities to individuals, families, aspiring market farmers, and community gardens. We partner with local organizations such as our libraries and churches to host our meetings and our farmers market and share resources for our participants.
We want to help our families grow as much of their own food as possible!
Program Requirements
- Attend in-person gardening meetings once per month
- Report harvest numbers monthly
- Practice organic methods
- Participate in online Facebook group
- Share blog posts when needed
Program Sponsor
Our organic gardening program is sponsored and in partnership with Grow Appalachia in Berea, Kentucky. For the past 13 years, Grow Appalachia has been addressing food insecurity throughout central Appalachia through home and community garden initiatives, foodways, farming, and hunger relief programming. They partner with local organizations like ours to create healthy, resilient, and economically viable food systems.
Other Local Partners
We love partnering with our local libraries, churches, and other organizations because they offer so much to our program. Through our partnership with them, participants have access to books, food preservation equipment, seeds, commercial kitchen access, and more.
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Farmers Markets
We encourage participants to grow large gardens and share or even sell any extra produce This helps make growing food more affordable and creates entrepreneurial opportunity for growers and increases access to homegrown, fresh food for our local communities.
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