On Saturday, April 24, people from throughout the region and the state came together at the Jenny Wiley convention center in Floyd County, Kentucky for a day of workshops on sustainable mountain agriculture and renewable energy and energy efficiency for the central Appalachian coalfields. The event was titled Growing Appalachia: moving forward in the mountains, and was sponsored by the floyd county chapter of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. Here are the voices of a few of the many presenters and participants at the event.