Letcher County is now home to the only raptor rehabilitation center in southeastern Kentucky. The new facility opened last month at the Letcher County Extension Office, and will serve as a home for injured and recovering birds of prey rescued throughout the region. At the ribbon cutting ceremony in early March, Letcher countians got to […]
It’s been an unusually mild winter here in the mountains, and many are wondering how this will affect our growing season. On Friday, February 17, growers from throughout the region came together to discuss this and more at the east Kentucky fruit and vegetable conference. The day-long conference was held at the Letcher County Extension […]
Hosts Sylvia Ryerson and Mimi Pickering discuss clean energy opportunuties for eastern Kentucky with guests Nathan Hall of Floyd County, who built his own mobile biodiesal conversion system, and Matt Partymiller, co-founder and operating partner of Solar Energy Solutions in Lexington. In this show we hear from Nathan and Matt on how growing our clean […]
The winter of 2012 so far has been unseasonably warm. It comes as the Appalachian coal industry faces a time of change, and amid a debate between people who say that coal is helping cause global warming and those who say there’s no such thing. Richard Trumka addressed this question recently. He is the president of America’s […]
