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This project will allow for regular adjustment through the tracking of production and budgets.

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The very structure of this project requires interdependence between multiple local organizations, with the possibility of outside help with financial or material support.  Further interdependence  could later be cultivated between the various program locations. Three way partnership for sure.

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This project provides for multiple approaches to improving life for it participants.  Essentially providing exercise, education, and economic opportunities is a big step forward.  It also will provide healthy food for the community.  Not to mention the possibility of expanding into additional support structures.

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With proper management and community support this project should remain sustainable economically, culturally, and especially environmentally.

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This project is open to the public.  Any school, nonprofit, community organization, or other entities are welcome to participate with us to help establish a program at their site.

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Suggested tasks to make each site work for their community. 

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Suggested tasks to make each site work for their community. 

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7 Tasks
1 Develop leadership (form a local coordinating committee)
2 Find a starting point and locate resources (identify local successes)
3 Obtain a relevant education (adapt successes from elsewhere)
4 Fit actions to your economic, environmental, and cultural situation (conduct
self-evaluations)
5 Determine the direction and the partners (make effective decisions)
6 Coordinate people, resources, and time (each partner implements actions)
7 Keep momentum on track (repeat tasks, while making midcourse corrections
to strengthen the four principles)

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Boone County Community Foundation, Boone Health, Try This WV, the Pallontine Foundation of Huntington, Guyan Conservation District, the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Grow Appalachia, the WV Department of Agriculture, the USDA,

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This project could bring lots of gradual positive behavior change to the community. For starters it helps to encourage people to find more belonging in their community. By being involved in such a program, community members can see the real world (fiscal) benefits of supporting local farming. Hopefully this will impact their spending habits to reflect that support. This will also open people's minds to the concept that they can take their financial futures into their own hands.

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Each site will be conducting surveys with the community to decide which crops are more likely to bring them sales. Each site will also be tracking the information on what they plant, how long it takes to mature, how many/how big their harvests are, and of course the price that those items are fetching at market. They will also be tracking the budgets, salaries, and profitability of their programs.

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The community sites will act as the ground up portion of the partnership. Dig in will bring their expertise in both agriculture and securing funding for the infrastructure as the outside in portion of the partnership. The top down of this partnership will be the funding agencies or organizations that will contribute materials or grant funding.

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The long term dream that this infrastructure could help support, would be a large scale learning farm.  Established space that provides the community educational offerings on small scale operations.  These spaces would then be complimented by leased land space that would be operated by independent operations.  This land lease would help operators by helping provide low cost, accessible land, with needed infrastructure.  It would help the community by guaranteeing non destructive access to help educate those interested in learning about moving up to larger operations.   Collectively the farm would build up processing capacity to add to the local marketing capacity of the potential Co op.
To add additional revenue and points of view of things, a possible added project could be a Agritourism retreat. Provide summer camps, educational groups, tourist groups, or even corporate team building opportunities, as a chance to show both the natural beauty of the region and the much desired escape to the farm life experience. This would add both income and advertising to help build and eventual brand for our Boone County goods.

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Once production reaches a certain point, it could be advantageous to begin development of a traveling pop up market to serve the outlying areas of the county.

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Each of these partner sites, will have the ability to expand over time.  Concepts in raising animals, forest farming, maple syrup production, mushroom farming, aquaponics, bee keeping, etc... All of which will be in eventual development through the Dig In Agriculture Education Center.

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Dig In, with support from other community organizations, will help partner sites to acquire the needed infrastructure to begin a market gardening operation on site.   This program would provide the needed education and instruction for these sites to :grow produce for market, to grow for use in value added products to sell at market, and provide income either for the programs/host sites or their volunteer participants.  Programs at schools are suggested to run the programs like actual businesses to the benefit of the students involved. These programs will put their production into supporting the local county farmers market. This will either include setting up and selling or taking advantage of a local program that will handle that service for a small fee.

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Community Garden in Madison, WV. Provides community members growing space to allow them to grow for whatever purpose they desire.

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Establishing some kind of entity that can help handle the marketing for those who wish to keep to their production work. This might best be served at first from just a basic aggregate service. Eventually though, it would be appropriate to establish a full on Agriculture Co Op that could be responsible for mainly marketing and sales to begin with.

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BARN, Uneeda Community Center (in development), Scott High, Van High, Sherman High, Drug Recovery Programs,

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Dig In Inc’s Agriculture Education Center 

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Dig In Inc’s Agriculture Education Center 

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This education center can serve as a hub for hands on learning to develop the skills and experience for people interested in agriculture.  Partnerships with local schools, community centers, and community organizations could help build and organize independent production projects that will provide a path to entrepreneurship in agriculture.

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These examples are current, profitable, and applicable right here in our region.

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This is an organized collective that helps local farmers get their products/produce out along their network.  They also have an online market that utilizes local drop points to move items between producers and consumers.

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This market travels through multiple locations across a few counties in the southern part of the state.  Once production gets to the point where we have more than we can sell directly in Madison, we could possibly adapt this model to serve the outlying areas of Boone.

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This group has created a school program that not only teaches agriculture from the ground up, but it provides a small number of jobs for the students who put in the hours working the ground.  They have plans to expand into honey bees and hopefully maple syrup.