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What you need to know to sign up:
What you need to know to sign up:
If you have questions or comments, please contact Joyce Skidmore at 276.346.3334, or email leevamastergardeners@gmail.com for more information.
What Grow Sustainab-LEE will provide:
Tools
Tilling Services- Limited availability
Plants and Seeds
Organic Chemicals
Fertilizer
Trainings
Educational Materials
Site visits to offer help and suggestions
Requirements to sign up:
You must agree to and sign a paper saying you will only use organic materials, techniques, and methods while participating in this program.
You must be willing to put in the time and effort to grow your produce. This program provides most of what you will need, but we cannot do the work for you.
You must submit your harvests on time at least 4 times during the growing season.
You must use the produce you grow by feeding your family or by donating or selling it.
You must attend all required workshops. You can make up as many as two workshops if you are unable to attend, if we are given prior notice.
If you have more than one offense of not attending workshops, or not turning in your reports, you may be dismissed from the program.
Priority acceptance into the program is given to successful past participants and new gardeners.
You must pick up supplies within the week’s time frame you are given or supplies will be given to others.
You agree to return tools and remaining supplies if you are no longer able to have a garden.
You must check your email regularly. The primary form of communication for the program is email.
If you do not have an email and have a hard time signing up using the form, please call the extension office at 276.546.2057 or contact Joyce Skidmore at 276.346.3334 for assistance.
If you are a person with a disability and desire any assistive devices, services, or other accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact the Lee County Extension Office at (276) 546-2057 /TDD* during business hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to discuss accommodations 5 days prior to the event. *TDD number is (800) 828-1120.
Lee County Virginia Master Gardeners/
Lee County Cooperative Extension Office
486 Industrial Drive, Pennington Gap, VA 24277
276.546.2057
LeeVAMasterGardeners@gmail.com
afannon@vt.edu
Pennington Gap, Virginia 24277
December 9, 2021
The Lee County Virginia Extension Master Gardeners in conjunction with the Lee County Extension Office who are offering the Grow Sustainab-LEE program, are pleased to announce their receipt of a grant in the amount of $20,636.41 from Grow Appalachia for the 2022 growing season. The Lee County Virginia Extension Master Gardeners, established in 2019, are a relatively new branch of the Virginia Master Gardener program. We currently offer programs such as Grow Sustainab-Lee and the Lee County Free Heirloom Seed Library. Our mission is to share knowledge and empower communities, which aligns perfectly with Grow Appalachia’s goals and mission. Some of the Extension Master gardeners core values include respecting the environment, each other, and those we serve. In addition, we strive to be wise stewards of our resources and to be held accountable to the organization, each other, and our communities. We are thrilled to offer this program to help combat food insecurity in our county, as well as to help people be better stewards of the land and available resources by learning to use organic gardening practices. The Grow Appalachia Garden Grant will support the establishment of home and community gardens to provide high-quality, organically grown local food for residents in Lee County, Virginia.
Grow Appalachia is a community garden-based food security program, headquartered at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. For the past 11 years, Grow Appalachia has been addressing food insecurity throughout central Appalachia through home and community garden initiatives, foodways, farming, and child nutrition programming. By meeting individuals and families where they live and addressing their specific needs, each household is provided with the tools, knowledge, and support to succeed in growing their own food. In the 2021 growing season, Grow Appalachia worked with over 1,000 families, totaling more than 3,300 gardeners, to grow 674,103 pounds of food. For the 2022 growing season, Grow Appalachia is working with 25 partner sites in five Appalachian states: West Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, and Virginia, as well as much of eastern Kentucky. Grow Appalachia seeks to help as many Appalachian families grow as much of their own food as possible to increase food security on the individual, household, community, and regional level.
About Grow Appalachia:
Grow Appalachia, a Strategic Initiative of Berea College, began as a partnership in 2009 between Berea College and JP’s Peace, Love & Happiness Foundation to address food insecurity in Appalachia. For more than 10 years, Grow Appalachia has been working throughout central Appalachia with a vision of a vibrant regional food system where healthy food is accessible to all. Grow Appalachia partners with organizations, communities, and families in Appalachia to create healthy, resilient, and economically viable food systems. Since 2009, Grow Appalachia has partnered with more than 7,000 families and 23,000 gardeners, who’ve produced more than 6 million pounds of organic produce either in their backyards or at community gardens. Learn more about our initiatives at http://growappalachia.berea.edu.
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