This workshop will assist you in honing the skills needed to produce high quality food and a quality lifestyle - profitably. Financial profitability and the improvement of the farm’s natural resources (soil, water, plants, wild-life, and culture) are the two essential factors of any agricultural...
Read MoreToday, on the eve of National Farmers Market Week, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Administrator Anne L. Alonzo announced the results of the 2014 Farmers Market Manager Survey. Based on a survey of almost 1,400 farmers market managers from across...
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Read MoreTN State University is hosting this year's Small Farm Expo. Join them at the AREC main campus from 7:30 - 2:0O PM for tours, beekeeping and fencing demonstrations and much more. This event is free to the public and lunch will be provided Main Campus AREC 1521...
Read MoreHemp is an agricultural crop grown worldwide and prized for its ability to be used for paper production, building components, products for human and even animal consumption through the seed, and health and beauty products based on hemp oil. (Hemp oil is a major by-product...
Read MoreFrom Jeff Poppen - We would like to invite you out to historic Red Boiling Springs any Saturday for our farmers market and for a free farm tour any Tuesday-Sunday from now until the end of October. Please email info@barefootfarmer.com or call 678-787-0935 to schedule...
Read MoreThe Tennessee Agritourism Association has planned a ROCK'N three day bus tour for you, July 19-21st, beginning and ending in Chattanooga! There will be lots of farm visits, including a wedding venue, peach and apple orchards, specialty meats, a haunted barn, pumpkin patch/corn mazes, as...
Read MoreSouthern SAWG is holding a meeting in Nashville at Scarritt Bennett on Jun 26-28. Since some of the board members and staff will be here on Thursday, we decided it would be a good time to hold this potluck so you could meet some of...
Read MoreFrom Alicia and Bert Batson - Farming Friends, Bert's nephew, Ben Hartman who operates Clay Bottom Farm along with his wife, Rachel, in Goshen, IN, has written a book on successful small, organic farming published by Chelsea Green, a sustainable living publisher. Ben and...
Read MoreDavid Wells' mushroom company, Henosis, is hosting a workshop to teach people how to build edible gourmet mushroom beds. Not only are these mushrooms delicious to eat, but they filter water, and benefit your garden, building compost for years to come. You can easily incorporate...
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