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25/09/2025

Excited for the 2025 Airing of the Quilts Festival? We are too! 🙌 Join us on Saturday, October 4th for a day of quilt displays, workshops, music, and so much more. Registration is now open. Check out www.airingofthequilts.com to get your tickets.

22/09/2025

Current grant opportunity! Awards available ranging from $25,000 - $250,000 to support community-led food purchasing initiatives💰🥕

The Growing Justice Fund application is currently open, and we encourage those of you in our farm to school and early care network who are leading community-led initiatives to apply!

This grant is specifically for Tribal, Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, immigrant communities, and other community-level organizations that typically struggle to gain access to funding.

The types of projects they are prioritizing include:

🌱 Support for diverse good food producers, small processors, and distributors to enter the institutional market or expand their businesses with institutions (yes, think support for small farmers who want to enter the farm to school market!)

🌱 Building policy action through grassroots organizing and advocacy for good food procurement

🌱 Cultivating Traditional Food Pathways to build community wealth within Tribal Nations

📢 IMPORTANT DATE: Take the eligibility quiz by October 6, 2025 to be able to submit an application

Learn more and apply: https://growingjusticefund.org/apply/

22/09/2025

Halloween is garlic planting time in Alabama. You'll need a space for it to grow from October through July. Check out the growing guide mentioned in this post.

Garlic is a great, low-maintenance beginner crop. However, it does hate to have wet feet. If you have soggy soil and poor garlic production, that may be the issue.

🧄🌱Forking beds and working in organic matter can help them drain well for better production. In really wet areas, you may want to go with raised beds.

Get your garlic for fall planting: https://www.southernexposure.com/categories/garlic/

10/09/2025

Just helping you get ready for a more relaxing fall.

Leave the leaves has become something of a rallying cry and discussion topic in recent years. When the weather starts to cool and leaves begin to fall, we’re presented with a valuable wildlife and gardening resource — but also something of a headache. Do I keep them all? Can I mulch them? Won’...

10/09/2025

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20/08/2025

How many pollinators can you see? I see some butterflies and bumble bees! Make your Count count!

20/08/2025

Please fill out Alabama River Survey (link in comments)

19/08/2025

Looking forward to this creative collaboration at ASU Teaching and Research Garden.
Yesterday, Farmer Amanda met with Dr. Femi (Specialy Crops Program Postdoctoral Researcher) and Professor Knight (Dept. of Visual Arts) to tour the garden and discuss a collaboration with the Sculpture class.

13/08/2025

A garden was born! Congratulations to Sheridan Heights community for all their hard work. Thank you to Youth Builders under the direction of Cornelius Jackson. Thank you to Robin Birdwell for speaking and donating some Beeutiful Natives to the garden. Thank you to Director Jordan for your help with all the logistics. Thank you to the community learning side by side and braving the elements. We have more to go!

08/08/2025

REMINDER!!!

You are cordially invited to attend the Reducing Pollution with Nature Based Solutions workshop on Tuesday, August 12 from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. The workshop will be held in the training room at Crump Center.

Speakers will be Jennifer Barker, ADEM, Doris Skipper, RC&D, Laura Cooley, Auburn University Water Resource Center and Denise Taylor, Keep Alabama Beautiful.

Registration is required for all attendees, including AHS members. To register, please scan the QR code or click the attached link.

https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eX52IwLETikMF6K?Q_CHL=qr

08/08/2025

Want to start a food business from your home? Learn what's allowed and get your Cottage Food Certificate.

Thinking about selling baked goods, jams, or other homemade treats? Make sure you’re certified under the Alabama Cottage Food Law! 🍪🫙

This course covers everything you need to know to sell foods from your home kitchen. Certification is valid for three years upon passing the final exam.

Learn more and view upcoming classes here:
https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/cottage-food-law/alabama-cottage-food-law-course/

08/08/2025

Truelove Seeds is having a seed sale that includes several okra varieties and some of the prettiest peas you ever saw. Keep those seeds in the freezer or a cool place for next year. Check out their entire catalog. They are working with communities across the U.S. to keep our food traditions growing.

Truelove Seeds is a farm-based seed company offering culturally important and open pollinated vegetable, herb, and flower seeds. Our seeds are grown by more than 20 small-scale urban and rural farmers committed to community food sovereignty, cultural preservation, and sustainable agriculture.