News & Updates
COVID-19 Updates at Project GROWS
Project GROWS continues to take seriously the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as well as our mission as a farm-based public health, educational and food access advocacy organization. Our health and well-being comes from the ground up, where we know the foundation for...
Harvest of the Month: Featuring Wild Altar Farm!
Welcome to the second video in our Harvest of the Month: Featured Farmer Spotlight. . This Month’s Fun Fact Question is “How do plants and fungi work together in an ecosystem?” In this episode, Patricia-Marie, our Education and Marketing Assistant, visits our featured...
Harvest of the Month: Featured Farmer (March)
Welcome to the March video in our Harvest of the Month: Featured Farmer Spotlight series. Each video will feature an amazing local farmer in our community and explore a Fun Fact question to look for in the interview. This Month’s Fun Fact Question is “What do farmers...
The Barn at Project GROWS: Work is Underway!
The visioning and design process for The Barn at Project GROWS has finally come into focus after many years of dreaming how a new structure could help support food production and education on the farm. After collaborating on architectural renderings, revising...
Reflections on a Unique Market Season from our Food Access Assistant
By Natalie Pax, 2020 Food Access Assistant and Allegheny Mountain Institute Phase II Fellow “We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not...
December & January Harvest of the Month
Welcome to the December & January video in our Harvest of the Month series. In this episode, Patricia-Marie, our Farm to School Intern, will be taking a look at potatoes! Helping us learn about these root vegetables will be Dig This Produce farm, where the...
November Harvest of the Month: Winter Squash
Welcome to Episode 2 of our Harvest of the Month video series, winter edition! This month’s episode is brought to you by Project GROWS, JMD Farm in Staunton, and the Virginia Family Nutrition Program. Join Patricia-Marie as she teaches us the different types of winter...
Farm to Student Series: October
Welcome to our Farm to Student blog series! Here, we will go more in-depth about the role that Project GROWS plays in helping to coordinate the procurement of local produce by our local school districts and the impact of our Harvest of the Month vegetable. Introducing...
Harvest of the Month: Super Greens
Resources: Watch the video here / Mira el video aquí Get the recipe for Spinach and Quinoa Pilaf Consigue la receta para el Pilaf de Espinaca y quinoa Spinach poster / Poster de espinacas Kale poster / Poster de kale To read this blog in Spanish click here Welcome...
Super Summer Chefs Episode 3: Tomatoes
Greetings from the Project GROWS team, and welcome back to Super Summer Chefs! Morgan Martindell from the Virginia Family Nutrition Program and Erika from Project GROWS are back for our LAST episode in our summer video series! This time will feature a fan favorite:...