Success StoryGrow Appalachia-Martin County



Grow Appalachia-Martin County

Author: Roger Mollette

Planning Unit: Martin County CES

Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture

Plan of Work: Home and Commercial Horticulture

Outcome: Initial Outcome

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 allowed the Extension Service to assist thirty-five 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 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 14,000 pounds of food.






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