Good to Grow: Mulch with purpose, no room for weeds
By By Alex Cole Good to Grow Right behind mowing, mulching is the most energy-intensive, time-consuming and expensive form of yard maintenance people do on a regular basis. Mulching has a purpose. It...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Making a case for garden mistakes
By By Brit Blevins Good To Grow Nature can be messy. It's complicated, temperamental and so interconnected it can be hard to tell what's affecting what. We go to such lengths to figure out what plant...
View ArticleWV Culinary Team: Add color, flavor and texture with edible flowers
By By Susan Maslowski WV Culinary Team Flowers can add color, flavor and texture to a number of dishes. They can be used in beverages, savory dishes, salads and desserts and are commonly used as a...
View ArticleFestivALL Monday: Juneteenth Celebration, Batman and Wonder Woman, chorus...
All-day: East End Garden Showcase, Charleston East End, from Leon Sullivan Way to Greenbrier Street. Tour brochures are available at area businesses or along the way in info tubes. All-day: Driven By...
View ArticleWV DIY Team: Transform an old lamp into a beautiful water feature
By By Rich Chapman WV DIY Team Do you have old items around that either have sentimental value or you don't want to get rid of? Many of us find ourselves the beneficiary of grandma's or granddad's...
View ArticleFestivALL Tuesday: Oral history project, Gospel Fest, Cabaret, more
All-day: East End Garden Showcase, Charleston East End, from Leon Sullivan Way to Greenbrier Street. Tour brochures are available at area businesses or along the way in "info tubes." All-day: Driven...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Understanding drip irrigation
By By Chris Postalwait Good to Grow Watering a garden is a chore most of us dread each season. For me, dragging a 100-foot water hose around the yard always results in broken plant stalks. Plus, your...
View ArticleClay County veteran eases effects of PTSD through beekeeping, farming
By Jennifer Gardner OVAPA - Though it sits quietly in the backwoods of Clay County, Sugar Bottom Farm is creating quite the buzz. Literally. The farm is home to a garden full of broccoli and other...
View ArticleWV Culinary Team: Fresh vegetables produce great tastes of summer
By By Julie Robinson WV Culinary Team It's that time of year when the "Farm Fresh" signs frequently placed in produce sections are actually accurate. Produce vendors pop up and stock their tables with...
View ArticleWV Farm2Fork: Turn summer berries into a Blackberry BBQ Sauce
By By April Koenig WV Farm2Fork Team It's berry season! You know what that means, right? Summer is here! Last week was the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. We celebrated at Sprouting...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Area rugs for the garden
By By Jane Powell Good To Grow I have spent the last few months searching for the perfect area rug for my TV room. Like most things in my house and garden, it has to be colorful, cozy and pet...
View ArticleWV Culinary Team: An ode to the morel mushroom - or merkels
By By Candace Nelson WV Culinary Team The season for the wild Appalachian delicacy known as the morel mushroom has come to an end. Typically found from March until May, depending on the weather, the...
View ArticleGood to Grow: Old found photo shows biodiversity, permaculture
By By Alex Cole Good to Grow My best flea-market find of the summer so far is a photograph of a family and a cabin. I have no idea who the family is. I don't know where the cabin was. I don't even...
View ArticleRavenswood 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...
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