Appalachia

Independent Herald • Oneida, TN
‘Grow Appalachia’ gears up for 2015 season
September 23, 2014
By IH Staff

With a successful 2014 growing season in the rearview mirror, Grow Appalachia has begun accepting applications for its 2015 program.

The brainchild of Paul Mitchell founder John Paul Dejoria, Grow Appalachia is managed by Berea College. The Scott County Grow Appalachia program is one of 40 across five states.

According to local program director Lisa Cotton, the purpose of Grow Appalachia is to teach people to grow vegetables and fruit in their back yard, while also instilling better attitudes towards healthy eating and giving local residents a means through which they can sell their produce and farm-made products at farmers markets to supplement their families’ income.

After growing into McCreary County in 2012, the Scott County Grow Appalachia program became the largest program in the system. In 2014, local gardeners produced 53 tons of food from 90 gardens. Seventy-eight of those gardens were family gardens, while 12 were community gardens....

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