National Volunteer Week: Katelyn Cox

Volunteers make the world go ’round and they make the ARC&D go ’round too. This week is National Volunteer Week. Just last year year alone we tracked 1,500 hours of volunteer time. Much of this was for the Quilt Trail painters and coordinators in...

Food Forest Spring Brunch

This Saturday March 24th at 10:30AM, celebrate the coming of Spring at the Mountain Home Food Forest– Johnson City’s “public edible park.” This is a fun opportunity to see our Sowing Seeds programming in action, one of the most rewarding...

Introducing TN Farm Link and AmeriCorps Amy Davis

My name is Amy Davis, and I serve the Appalachian Resource Conservation and Development Council through AmeriCorps VISTA as the Tennessee Farm Link Coordinator. …huh? Let me break it down a bit. My name is Amy Davis. I grew up in the woods of Grainger County,...