Why Hope? Hope is Becky’s family name. But also, getting started in farming was a vision of hope. “Hope for simpler life,” says Steve, as well as more self-determination. “Farming has also come with many a tear thinking how did I get into this mess?” Hope prevails for the Mallory family!

Located in Greeneville, these fields have been growing food for many years by many hands. Steven went through the ARC&D’s Field School Beginning Farmers Training program in 2017. A new beginning for him, and a new beginning for the family’s land, which they moved back to in 2017 when it was time to take care of family and move to the country.

At farmers markets Steve and Becky Mallory offer according to season a variety of lettuce, kales, greens, beets, carrots, tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes, squashes, and a rainbow of cut flower choices aided by Becky’s artistic eye. The “Studio” piece of the farm name is Becky’s plant-dyed apparel and  linens. Hope Farms grows and processes Indigo for dyeing and makes other dyes from their own botanical foraging. Becky is teaching eco-dyeing as part of the Ag in Art series in May in Johnson City.

Hope Farms & Studio will sell at Boone Street Market in Jonesborough and the Jonesborough Famers Market. New this year Steven will be hoping to bring to markets Aunt Ruby’s Green tomato, which is a Greene County heirloom, and Titsworth tomatoes,  an heirloom from Stoney Creek in Carter County.