We are currently in our start-up phase, which means the Nashville Food Co-op needs Founding Owners to join now in order to move forward to becoming a functioning, community-owned, local grocery store. Your founding ownership means joining the growing movement to keep our hard-earned money...
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Farmers’ market season will be here before we know it! We have partnered up with the University of Kentucky to offer a 5-part webinar series on Zoom every Monday evening in March from 6-7:30 PM EST called Getting Ready for Market (flyer attached). The topics...
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Learn the basics of annual plasticulture strawberry production through six free, 90 minute webinars. Each webinar will cover new and timely information with updated recommendations from experts across the Southeast....
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This course helps produce growers learn about the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and help them fulfill the educational requirement associated with the Produce Safety Rule. ...
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Usually at this time, we are planning for our annual Gathering at the Green Door Gourmet Farms (This would have been our 9th annual event!). Sylvia and I discussed our possibilities and decided there were no safe ways to physically hold the Gathering this Spring....
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The focus this year will be on regenerative farm practices, soil conservation/cover cropping practices as well as business development. Beginning farmers and ranchers, whether intending to farm full-time or for supplemental income, face many important and interrelated decisions that affect their success and will benefit...
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The film, available on YouTube, tells the story of how farmers are building a regenerative agriculture by centering their operations around the animals they care for....
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Farmland owners and anyone with an agricultural lease are invited to participate in a free “lunch and learn” mini webinar series starting in March. This series of short courses will teach you the basics of farmland leases and will provide you with useful tools and...
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This is a handbook for growing a Climate Victory Garden when the enemy is global warming. Acadia Tucker, a carbon farmer and garden-er, invites us to think of gardening as civic action. By building carbon-rich soil, even in a backyard-sized patch, we can capture greenhouse...
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In an effort to better support the agricultural community, we are partnering with the State of Tennessee to understand how much surplus fresh produce is available in fields. Tennessee growers are phenomenal producers with great yields, but markets aren’t always available to absorb the healthy,...
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