Food As A Verb: Farming And Food In Southeast Tennessee

Old timey corn picked the old timey way at Sequatchie Cove Farm.(Sequatchie Cove Farm)Drive about an hour west of Chattanooga - and you’ll find an emerging generation of farmers passionate about locally grown food here in Southeast Tennessee.Kelsey Keener is a third-generation farmer at Sequatchie Cove Farm, along the Sequatchie River in Sequatchie.Jess Wilson is president of the Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers Coalition, a collaboration among farmers on the Cumberland Plateau and in Chattanooga. She and her husband Nate own the Summer Fields sheep farm and In-Town Organics in Monteagle.Over the summer, we spoke with Kelsey and Jess - along with David Cook of the Chattanooga media startup Food As A Verb, who arranged our conversation.The Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers Coalition is conducting a Soil Carbon Analysis study to provide data on the benefits of regenerative agriculture in Southeast Tennessee.(The Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers Coalition)(Food As A Verb)