 All this month get any smart phone 32 giga under for 50% off regular price at Appalachian Wireless. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. While supplies last, two-year agreement required. Over 50 people were in attendance for Grow Appalachia's first meeting of the year at the Heinemann Cinema School Thursday. Grow Appalachia's been working to preserve the past, build hope for the future and empower Appalachians to live healthy, productive lives. Grow Appalachia is a program that allows us to work with people in the community to provide them with resources and trainings to grow their own organic gardens. We work with gardeners who are just home gardeners or community gardeners or people who are growing for market. Resources being seeds, garden tools, fertilizer, etc. And also we offer workshops teaching them about garden planting. So it's really a program for people of all skill levels in gardening. Grow Appalachia is planting the seeds for a sustainable future. Despite having a rich agricultural history, family farming and gardening have become less popular and less profitable than Appalachia, limiting the access to healthy, affordable food. However, interest in growing organic foods is increasing for many reasons. We started out the first year, there was probably 14 or 15 families involved and by the end of the year there was about 6 families and then you can see tonight there was a bunch. I think by us talking to people, telling them the benefits and they were starting to see the benefits from us, what we're doing and everyone thinks you can't grow vegetables organically and I'm all the time showing pictures of what can be done. I've got one lady I work with, she had never grown a garden, this would make her third year and actually the last two years she said she has bought no vegetables from the store. For more information on Grow Appalachia, visit them on the web at Heinemannsettlementschool.org. Reporting from Heinemann for EKB News, I'm Shawn Allen.