TCCF funds Healthy Kids Bucks in 2026
A grant from The Twin County Community Foundation will fund the return of Healthy Kids Bucks to the Market this year! We are excited to work with WIC on this[…]
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Seed Library Open House March 28
The open House at the Seed Library will be 11am to 1 pm Saturday ,March 28 at the Library in Independence. Everyone is welcome! If you are a new gardener[…]
Other interesting things to do:
Permaculture Garden Clean-up Join the Permaculture Group and Grayson LandCare for this free hands on workshop at the Permaculture garden located at 9441 Grayson Pkwy, Galax, VA 24333 on Saturday November[…]
Cooking Day-Squashtober
Guest Chefs Loren and Dean cooked an array of squash focused recipes including Italian Pork Squash Wells, Delicata squash medallions, Squash soup, squash fritters and sauteed squash and cheese. Italian[…]
Garlic Day Recipes
Garlic Piperade Soup Adapted from Jane Brody’s Good Food book 40 cloves, or ~250 grams of fresh garlic cloves 2 cups of sliced yellow onion 4 cups of sliced[…]
3 events in September!
We are excited to hold the first Garlic Festival on September 5. Our First Friday Cooking day will feature recipes with lots of garlic. Geshe Morley will be the guest[…]
A Garlic Cooking Day Recipe
Garlic Mashed PotatoesCooks magazine, September October 2000, number 46Avoid using unusually large garlic cloves, which will not soften adequately during roasting. Yukon Gold, red, russet, or white potatoes can be[…]
There is still time to plant for Fall
As of August 6th , there are still about 70 frost free days left. I was surprised when I saw the LONG list of crops you can still plant now[…]