Summer Updates 2022

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View this email in your browser Happy summer, everyone!   It’s that time of year when our efforts are realized in the form of produce and flowers. We’re several weeks into the FARMacy produce prescription program, our summer community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and our new Budding Wheeling Flower CSA. It’s so exciting to be able to share beautiful, quality veggies that come packed with life-giving nutrients! It’s so gratifying to grow beautiful flowers that can enhance moods. These programs are investments in our community’s health (one meal at a time) and economic viability (one farm at a time). The careful stewardship of the ground and soil we depend on is bearing fruit - literally - for the Ohio Valley so that we can all grow healthy and strong together. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to engage in community health and prosperity in this way. Thanks so much to all our subscribers, volunteers, staff, and community for coming together to share in this celebration! Let's keep growing! Glynis Board Interim Executive Director, Grow Ohio Valley   AN OLD HOUSE TAKES ON NEW LIFE On a quiet morning in June, the sisters of the Congregation of Saint Joseph transferred their East Wheeling property to Grow Ohio Valley. The Congregation has a long and rich tradition in East Wheeling, beginning in 1853 when six sisters arrived by stagecoach and soon after established a hospital in their house on 15th Street. The house served as the first site of Wheeling Hospital until 1856. Although the building was bought and sold many times since that era, in 1996 it came back into the hands of the Sisters where they created the House of Hospitality. From that time until the present, the sisters have been a loving and neighborly presence in the neighborhood. GrowOV plans to maintain the spirit of the house as a place of community, utilizing the space for offices, workshops and classes, and housing for volunteers and visitors from time to time. The sisters have been longtime supporters of GrowOV, and we are extremely grateful to them for offering us their beloved house in East Wheeling FOOD IS MEDICINE WITH FARMACY WV Grow Ohio Valley is teaming up with local farmers, the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, WVU, WV Farmers Market Association, Sisterville General Hospital of Memorial Health System, and many others to bring the FARMacy WV program to Tyler County. This year-long program combines education in lifestyle change principles, healthy cooking classes, guided exercise programs, and a summer of fresh, weekly, doctor-prescribed produce for participants with chronic diseases. The FARMacy WV program was first initiated in 2016 as a collaboration between GrowOV and Wheeling Health Right Clinic, and has grown to reach 13 counties in WV. From FARMacy WV: "FARMacy hopes to prove via data collection that "food is medicine," and that the first method of both treatment and prevention of chronic disease should be with a healthy diet." LEARN MORE AT FARMACYWV.COM Hannah Hedrick Previous Previous Celebrate Fall with GrowOV Next Next Spring Updates from GrowOV Copyright © 2021 Grow Ohio Valley - All Rights Reserved. Website photography courtesy of Erin Yaeger and Grow Ohio Valley GROW OHIO VALLEY 1006 Grandview Street Wheeling, WV 26003 info@growov.org (304) 233-GROW