Ravenswood church intends to nourish bellies, souls with greenhouse
By By Jeff Baughan The Parkersburg News and Sentinel RAVENSWOOD - LifeSpring Community Church-Jackson doesn't look like a church as you drive by. There are churches along the main street in...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Beautiful dahlias worth the effort
By By Lynne Schwartz-Barker Good to Grow My friend and gardening client, Gayle Preiser, was a flamboyant woman who loved drama in clothes, in home decor and in her garden. She enjoyed cooking and...
View ArticleWV Culinary Team: Clearing up some corn confusion
By By Susan Maslowski WV Culinary Team Silver Queen corn was all the rage when I began gardening in the '70s. It is a white sweet corn that still triggers a tinge of nostalgia with older folks. But be...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Human-friendly Purple Martins control garden insects
By By Chris Postalwait Good to Grow Being an avid vegetable and fruit gardener, I spend most of my time wishing birds would just fly over my patch of earth and go feed in the nearest neighboring...
View ArticleGood To Grow: America in Bloom contestant Lewisburg overflows with flowers
By By Jane Powell Good To Grow In 1987, the Savannah Garden Club purchased the first wrought-iron baskets that would soon become a welcoming signature for the Lewisburg. You can't miss them as you...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Follow the sun to see how it affects your garden
By By Alex Cole Good to Grow Congratulation gardeners, you've made it to August. It's that time of year again: hazy hot and humid, the three H's that define summertime in West Virginia. In any...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Designing your first garden requires careful planning
By By Brit Blevins Good To Grow So you wanna design a garden. Go you! I know from experience how hard it is to muster up motivation for something outside of our daily obligations, especially when it's...
View ArticleWV Culinary Team: Where did fried green tomatoes originate?
By By Susan Maslowski WV Culinary Team Fried green tomatoes are more common in Southern West Virginia than they are in the Northern Panhandle, where my husband and I grew up. They seem to be a...
View ArticleSix students act as ag commissioner for the day at State Fair of WV
By Jennifer Gardner Whether they show livestock with National FFA Organization or 4-H, or simply enjoy the rides and funnel cakes, kids play various roles at the State Fair of West Virginia - but...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Tips for successfully growing houseplants
By By Chris Postalwait Good to Grow Growing a houseplant can be a very enjoyable hobby and a great way to improve a drab interiorscape if you know the basic steps of indoor cultivation. Without some...
View ArticleFarmer in Welch sees local food as key to revitalizing coal town business
By Jennifer Gardner WELCH - Where some residents see empty, abandoned buildings in McDowell County, Joel McKinney sees the future of food. He sees rows upon rows of stacked beds of lettuce - floating...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Start thinking about planting for fall
By By Jane Powell Good To Grow Late August in the garden, summer blooms are beginning to fade and gardeners are thinking of fall. It's also the time when you proudly wonder what in the world you will...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Clearing, channeling streams can make flash flooding worse
By By Alex Cole Good to Grow I'm willing to bet, if you are in West Virginia and you are reading this paper, you're within a stone's throw of a creek or river. I would argue the streams define this...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Ingenuity abounds in Greenbrier County garden tours
By By Lynne Schwartz-Barker Good to Grow Don't you love a good garden tour? I'm fascinated to see how other designers and talented amateurs develop their outdoor spaces. I love to learn new plants,...
View ArticleWV Culinary Team: Figs have a long history in the US and the world
By By Susan Maslowski WV Culinary Team Fig trees have played a role in Southern gardens for centuries. They not only yield delicious fruit, but they provide a picturesque tropical look for the...
View ArticleGood to Grow: It's been a grape year
By By Chris Postalwait For the Gazette-Mail With the leaves of the mighty black walnut starting to turn across the region, giving a preview that fall and shorter days are abound, I found myself...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Fairy garden brings magic to the neighborhood
By By Jane Powell Good To Grow It's September, which is, for a gardener, a very busy month. And, yes, I have a long list of chores. But something unexpected happened. I built a fairy garden. I must...
View ArticleOverbrook students reap educational benefits of school garden
By Jennifer Gardner At Overbrook Elementary, digging in the dirt is just part of the day's lesson. On a typical day, third- and fourth-graders gathered around a raised bed to plant the last of their...
View ArticleWV Farm2Fork Team: Enjoy every last taste of summer fruits and vegetables
By By Allan Hathaway WV Farm2Fork Team Sometimes in September I feel like I am betwixt and between. Summer has been great (maybe too short) and fall is a great time of year in the Mountain State. I...
View ArticleCalhoun farmer thinks small with microgreens
By Jennifer Gardner Tom Thiltgen wanted to be a farmer.While living in Virginia Beach, Virginia, he longed for a slower pace of life in the countryside where he could live off of the land with his...
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