The last few years my garden has been a dud. This has been due only in part to my busy schedule. While I haven’t attended to my garden enough, what I have cared for, slugs have demolished. A few years ago, I wrote a column on slugs. Researching for it helped me learn about these garden ...
Over the last few years, I’ve seen information on social media about the Grow This: WV Garden Challenge — a statewide free seed distribution program run by the WVU Extension Office. I never signed up for free seeds, but thought it sounded like a great way to encourage more people to ...
Food insecurity is a real problem for many residents of the Mountain State. To help combat the issue through garden-based education, the WVU Campus Food Garden invites the community to attend its spring workshops teaching how to grow a home garden in small spaces. The first workshop, ...
By Kaitlyn Eichelberger Rows and rows of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, squash, beans and more. Countless honeybees, butterflies and birds. Two plastic decoy owls by the names of Jake and Molly. A round table and umbrella. A woman and her grandson. Georgia “Tiny” Marks, an ...
By Jade Ruggieri The West Virginia University Campus Food Garden is sprouting more growing space for an urban farm and learning center at the Abundant Life Greenhouse in Westover. While the Evansdale garden is 200 square feet, the Westover expansion boasts a budding 1,800 square ...
My sister Lina and I say often enough that we are regularly reduced to conversation topics such as “what are you having for dinner?” Her contributions to this mundane topic recently began to pique my interest. So I asked her about it. “I set a goal to eat something every single ...