Our mission and principles.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit incubator and think tank working with people and organizations across Appalachia to build self-sustaining, healing communities.
From North Carolina to Johnson County.
Grow Well Appalachia has served communities since 2002. In 2024, after 22 years of service in North Carolina, GWA established a presence in Johnson County, Tennessee. We took time to understand the region, its residents and their needs, its abundant resources, and the real challenges of small-town living and business ownership.
Our team and volunteer base has grown, and our objective is clear: to enhance lives, research conservation strategies, get people back out into nature, and inspire community participation, with health, healing, food security and sustainability at the heart of it all.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller
Practical tools for everyday resilience.
Health, healing and the land are woven together in everything we do, just like the leaves and flowers growing around this helix, rooted in the Appalachian mountains.
Grow Well Appalachia is powered by SEE Infinitely, the holistic and functional health practice of our founder, Nicole M. Henderson, sharing practical tools that help families and communities grow well.
What guides us
Empowerment
Fostering long-term growth and sustainability by empowering the region through cooperation.
Good Stewardship
Responsible care for the land and its inhabitants, for everyone’s well-being and growth.
Imagination
Innovative ideas and creative solutions to complex regional issues through research and advocacy.
Big Thinkers
Bringing together people from many backgrounds to find the best ideas and solutions.
Nicole M. Henderson, ThM
Visionary and advocate for holistic, functional and energy medicine, health and wellness, and published author. Nicole leads GWA’s mission to help Appalachian communities thrive, and is currently partnering with The Venus Project to learn more about sustainable, sovereign living solutions.
Visionary thinkers, compassionate leaders
Plant something that lasts.
$5 may stock a family’s garden for a season. Your gift helps keep the Seed Library shelves full and our projects moving.