The Martin County Extension Service works with The Grow Appalachia organization and together they address food insecurity for families focused on organic gardening practices. The Grow Appalachia program has successfully created opportunities for fresh produce to be grown and used/preserved by families in the program.  

This program in its fourth year has allowed the Extension Service to assist seventy families to produce and preserve food produced from their gardens. Many of these families could not have had a garden without help from the grant.

Classes have been offered online during the Covid Pandemic with plans to offer in person classes to the group from planning the garden to preserving the food with most expenses covered by the grant.   

The Grow Appalachia program is very successful with the gardeners producing 17,000 pounds of food.

The following is a quote from Candice of Grow Appalachia, " I hope you know just how important your work was and continues to be."