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Faith Based Community Garden Helping Those In Need
The First Lutheran Community Garden is located on a small lot on the corner of 19th Street and Liberty Street in Parkersburg. The property used to be an…
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It's November, and the growing season is over for most vegetables. But even with the frosts and the shorter days, not everyone has retreated indoors.…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThese Groups are Reforming West Virginia's Food Economy
The phrase “food-desert” might sound like a landscape of sagebrush and armadillos, but it's really a place where SlimJims, chicken nuggets and Slurpies…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHow Vacant Lots in Charleston Are Transforming Into a School for Farmer-Entrepreneurs
On a sultry summer evening, three women are killing harlequin beetles in an effort to save the greens at the SAGE micro-farm on Rebecca Street that they…
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New Urban Garden in Wheeling Designed For the Blind
Wheeling has a new urban garden, and it’s a little out of the ordinary. It’s designed for visually impaired gardeners. Not many like it exist in the…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsChildren Combat Hunger in West Virginia
Tom Toliver has seen people with children who are hungry, searching for food in dumpsters in the alleys of Charleston. And he isn’t the only one. At the…
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