Kids Grow Farmers Market Promotes Farming, Entrepreneurship and Fun! Alex Panas July 29, 2021 While some kids spend their summers leisurely enjoying their time away from the classroom, the kids enrolled in the Laughlin Chapel’s summer camp have spent the last six weeks learning entrepreneurship, farming...
Grow Food, Not Lawns: Tips for a Healthy Backyard Garden Melissa Rebholz May 18, 2021 With the final freeze of the season behind us, it’s time to start planning those backyard gardens! Gardening is a great hobby for many reasons. Not only is it an affordable way to eat more fresh fruits and vege...
Farm Fresh: Check Out Grow Ohio Valley’s Spring Programs Ayron Walker May 7, 2021 As spring begins to blossom in Appalachia, it means more opportunities to get outdoors and enjoy hobbies like gardening. Here in Wheeling, Grow Ohio Valley, a local nonprofit organization whose mission is to bu...
Apple Season in West Virginia Melissa Rebholz November 20, 2020 We’ve slowly transitioned into the apple season here in West Virginia as the popular fall storage fruit steals the spotlight from summer berries and sustains our sweet tooth through the cold winter months. A...
Community Gardens: Green and Growing in Wheeling Laura Jackson Roberts May 26, 2020 With Victory Gardens springing up all over the Ohio Valley and residents reconnecting with the land and the time-honored tradition of working it, it’s a good time to take a look at community gardens. THE...
Eat Local This Holiday Season Weelunk Staff December 6, 2017 Thanks to the cover and shelter our high tunnel greenhouses provide, we're able to grow veggies all the way into December. As a result, Grow Ohio Valley is proud to offer holiday produce boxes f...
Harvest Festival This Weekend Weelunk Staff October 17, 2017 Just outside of Wheeling on the weekend of October 21 regional residents will find a fully formed Harvest Festival free and open, containing food trucks, live music, a pumpkin patch and a list of other assorted...
Considering Compassion: The Science Behind The Ohio Valley’s ‘Compassionate Cities’ Glynis Board October 10, 2017 Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting Accompanying story and audio here: Listen Many towns and cities across the Ohio Valley try to improve their business environment with ta...
Grow Ohio Valley Seeks Hosts Sam Amberg April 30, 2017 Early this summer, another four AmeriCorps service members will arrive in Wheeling to assist Grow Ohio Valley in its mission of establishing a robust local food economy. They will remain here for separate amoun...
Happy CSA Day! Sam Amberg February 24, 2017 Are your New Year’s resolutions already in the rearview mirror? If so, you still have time to make good on those promises! Grow Ohio Valley is pleased to join other farms around the country in celebrating the t...
Plant A Seed With Grow Ohio Valley Sam Amberg December 22, 2016 Greetings and Happy Holidays! As our third year draws to a close, more than ever we affirm our love of Wheeling; for where it has been, but more so for what it is becoming. It’s entirely gratifying to know o...
Grow OV’s Goal – Feeding Friendly City Citizens Steve Novotney November 16, 2016 It was February when a pair of representatives from Grow Ohio Valley pitched an idea during ReInvent Wheeling’s “Show of Hands” event about a fresh foods grocer in East Wheeling, but now the focus of the projec...
