This year at the One Valley community gardens, we have continued to see growth in the number of neighbors volunteering and partaking of the produce. It’s why we do this. Alicia and Keith, new friends of the garden, donated a raised bed and some lettuce seeds. Keith helped us work to set up the sink, and Alicia worked to weed around the fruit trees, adding soil, mulch, and logs around them. Then on September 16th, Dr. Laura Hartman's class from the Environmental Studies progra

Where has the growing season gone? We have had a wonderful year of production from our two community gardens, and the sweet potatoes are in the process of being harvested over the next couple of weeks. Already, the harvest has been bountiful, thanks in part to Rev. Carter’s planting techniques with the sweet potatoes. He dug trenches and incorporated peat moss into our wonderful compacted urban soil, and the sweet potatoes loved it! Come by and see us. Also, next Saturday wi

Late last month, One Valley, Inc. was presented the Roanoke Lion’s Club’s Virginia Council of Governor’s “Distinguished Service Award”...

All kinds of greens are in full production and summer squash are starting to bloom. Volunteers harvest vegetables for neighbors and...

04/26/25: We picked up the seedlings that we had planted from seed with Shawn back in February and transplanted them in the 8th & Gilmer...

03/22/25: Most of this month was spent pulling old vegetable stalks, trimming native plants in our fence border, reshaping beds,...

03/10/25: Miranda graduated from the University of North Carolina in 2020 with a BS in Health and Wellness Promotion and also has...

02/07/25: Shawn Jadrnicek, one of the Virginia Cooperative Extension agents in Roanoke City, invited One Valley garden volunteers to use...