Despite the challenges still posed by the coronavirus pandemic and the US economy, Appalachian families deserve to sit down to a wonderful holiday feast this Thanksgiving and Christmas. This holiday season, we hope you join us in providing a heartfelt meal to over...
Barbara Puckett, owner of the Puckett Family Community Garden in Beattyville, Kentucky in Appalachian Lee County, is on a mission – “As a family, we would like to grow and produce vegetables for families in our community.” And thanks to the supporters of Americans...
For the vast majority of American children — and their parents — back to school time is a time of eager anticipation and excitement when students will be reunited with their old friends who they may not have seen since the last day of school and to start...
Our longtime partner in Beattyville, Kentucky, Cumberland Mountain Outreach, is a small grassroots non-profit organization focused on helping those most in need in the hard-pressed, rural Appalachian community – especially children and senior citizens. In the past...
On Tuesday, June 1 the wheels of the Lunch Box Bus, operated by our partner, Of One Accord, will be rolling again on the winding rural roads of Hancock and Hawkins counties in East Tennessee delivering meals to hungry children living in isolated pockets of poverty....
More than two months ago, Beattyville, Kentucky, and surrounding Lee County where our partner Cumberland Mountain Outreach operates, suffered an historic, 100-year flood. Dozens of businesses in the small town’s downtown area were forced to close, and hundreds of...
