Check 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...
Read MoreNRCS TN and TACD are bringing Soil Health Conferences to East, Middle and West Tennessee. The featured speaker is Ray Archuleta, an NRCS Conservation Agronomist who spoke at the TACD Convention in February. Ray McCormick, Ken Miller, farmers practicing soil health, and Greg Brann, NRCS,...
Read MoreThe Inaugural Farm to Table International Symposium (F2T) in New Orleans features the brightest thought leaders and leading practitioners in the burgeoning farm-to-table movement. F2T explores the cultivation, distribution, and consumption of food and drink sourced locally to globally. Topics include farming and aquaculture, fisheries,...
Read MoreJohn Patrick wanted to point out an excellent resource on the NCAT's National Sustainable Agriculture Information service site. This feature has numerous resources for understanding the dynamics of local food systems, how growers can participate and, most useful to us, examples of successful community efforts...
Read MoreAre you interested in going to China? And not only going to China, but going with a group of American farmers to visit with and learn about agriculture in China?! CJ Sentell of Ecotone Farm is collecting input for Professor Mengmeng Gu of Texas A&M AgriLife...
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