National Good Food Network is sponsoring a webinar on Food Hubs and Farm to school programs. “Farm to school programs have been very successful at getting good, healthy, local, whole foods to our nation's students. However, some schools and districts find that their school food...
Read MoreHey gang! I'm leading a free program on food preservation at the Bells Bend Park Outdoor Center this Saturday the 14th from 10-11am (or longer?). Some of you may already pickle/can/ferment/dehydrate your food, but I figured that it was up most everyone's alley and worth...
Read MoreThe Healthy Nashville Leadership Council and its sub-committees are meeting at Green Door Gourmet to prioritize public health issues and identify resources for addressing them. To voice our opinions of sustainable farming's numerous beneficial roles in future local policy initiatives is an opportunity we should...
Read MoreSpiral Ridge Permaculture is hosting a REGRARIAN’ Open Consultancy (RAC) with Darren Doherty If you are serious about doing design work for clients or applying design to farmland, you don’t want to miss this course! Darren is one of the world’s most experienced Permaculture Design...
Read MoreCheck out the Wallace Center's excellent newsletter this month. Its contains lots of fresh reports on food hubs, pasture projects, National Good Food Network activities, upcoming events in the south east and much more....
Read MoreLearn about breeding, incubation, brooding and growing heritage poultry at the Sustainable Poultry Network's coaching clinic in the Bells Bend farm community. Poultry experts from around the country will teaching this one-day, eight-hour coaching clinic which includes a visit to a farm raising heritage breed...
Read More"National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) Horticulture Specialist Guy Ames will present a webinar addressing what it takes to develop fruit that’s adapted locally and regionally – and he’ll get hands-on with a discussion of grafting, budding, cuttings, and other forms of asexual fruit propagation....
Read More"Councilman Jason Holleman is a State Senate candidate for the Nashville region. He is meeting TODAY with local food leaders, urban gardeners, and farmers about some of the ways that state issues impact current Davidson county farmers ability to farm sustainably, and barriers to access...
Read MoreNational Good Food Network is sponsoring a webinar that "will describe the lessons learned from the recent benchmarking study of food hub financial and operational characteristics. The presentation will highlight how successful food hubs across the nation have achieved their mission and goals...
Read MoreUT-Knoxville is starting a workshop series this month, running through December. They are targeting “commercial producers and agriculture professionals interested in learning organic and conventional crop production practices”. Most workshops are between Knoxville and Nashville with the final workshop at Delvin Farms. See full list...
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