Farm Fresh Appalachia Blog
Farm Profile: Old Forge Homestead Dairy Goats with Donica Krebs
“We didn’t even talk about it, we knew this was how we wanted to live.” Tied together by the love for mountains and working the land, Donica and Caleb Krebs operate Old Forge Homestead, a farm in Siam/Hampton area of Carter County focused on dairy goats and...
Farm Profile: A Bushel & A Peck Farms – The Junge Family
Christy Junge and family sell as A Bushel and A Peck Farm at the Johnson County Farmers Market and the Elizabethton Farmers Market. A Bushel and A Peck is a generational family farm located in Butler, farmed by Christy, her husband, her parents, and her daughter....
Farms to Folks Meet Your Farmer Fair
WHEN: April 16th — 12:00–4:00PM WHERE: Jonesborough Visitors Center Come meet your farmers and farmers market vendors just before market seasons kick off in Northeast Tennessee! At this Meet Your Farmer Fair, ARCD hopes to bring together farmers from across the region...
Farmer Outreach 2020
In the coming year, Farm Fresh Appalachia will offer more educational, promotional, and networking opportunities for farmers, producers, and growers than we ever have before. We hope to reach as many local growers and producers as we can! This page will serve as a...
Farm Fresh Appalachia Farm Tours 2020 – Farmer Invitation
Farm Fresh Appalachia Farm Tours 2020 Northeast Tennessee – Saturday, June 20th Southwest Virginia – Saturday, September 26th Applications need to be submitted by March 16, 2020 for Tennessee, and July 2, 2020 for Virginia. If you are a farmer in Northeast Tennessee...
National Farmers Market Week – 2019
National Farmers Market Week August 4 - 10, 2019 Join us and Farmers Markets across the region as we celebrate National Farmers Market Week! Love Farmers Markets as much as we do? Here’s your chance to win some farmers market swag! Visit your favorite markets during...
Tennessee Farm Tour Reflections: A Note from the Executive Director
Saturday, June 22: Up earlier than usual — 4:00 a.m. to be exact — the morning unfolded beautifully. As dawn gave way to daylight and temperatures warm without being hot, the staff and volunteers of ARC&D made final preparations for the Spring in TN-Farm Fresh...
Why Buy Local?
You’ve seen the bumper stickers, you’ve heard the pleas, you probably have a t-shirt or a tote bag that attempts to persuade you to shop locally, but what is it all for? Does your purchase really make that much of a difference? If a purchase is impactful, how and...
First Appalachian Farmers Market Association Retreat: A Great Success!
Farmers market managers, representatives, and vendors from across Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia came together in Kingsport for a full day of relationship building and learning at the first ever Appalachian Farmers Market Association (AFMA) Retreat. There...
Spring! in TN Farm Tour – Farmer Invitation
Spring! in Tennessee Farm Tour Saturday, June 22 1-5pm Applications must be submitted by April 17. If you are a farmer in Washington or Greene County TN and would like a chance to boost your business this spring, please join us for the 2nd Annual Farm Fresh Farm...