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Overhill Gardens, Monroe County, Tennessee with owner Avi Askey. Overhill Gardens is a Native plant nursery, and Eco-Friendly Landscapes, Hardscape, and design business. Amy interviews owner Avi Askey about his work for over 20 years now to improve region’s ecology through his work of saving native plants, and endangered native plant species.  Also Fred Sauceman shares a segment with the recording...

Today, we are setting the table with our little friends, pollinators and the honey bee and ways that we can help to protect them. We will visit today with 2 families who raise bees in East, TN. D & Jim Brown who own and run Honey Rock Herb Farm, in Louisville, TN and have raised bees for over 40 years. Coley and Judy O’Dell who own and run Smoky Ridge Apiaries in Maryville, TN and have taught coun...

Today, we are setting the table with 2 farmers’ markets in East, TN. We first visit with Chris Battle, one of the people who helped to create the Eastside Sunday Farmers’ Market located right on the edge of downtown Knoxville in East, Knoxville. This is an urban area in need of sources of fresh, nutritious produce. Chris Battle is in a mission to help bring a solution to the problem of limited acc...

Today, we are setting the table with fly fishing and how to cook trout over an open fire. Our guests are fly fishing guides Charity and Ian Rudder of R&R Fly Fishing from Townsend, TN. Charity is also leading a "River Discovery" event to benefit Freshwatersillustrated.org June 18, in Townsend, TN. Also James Beard Award winning Chef Joseph Lenn, Owner of JC Holdway restaurant located in downtown K...

A visit with John and Rachel Davis, owners of J & R Farms in Blount County, Tennessee. And John’s family has saved and raised an heirloom bean for generations that they call the “Striped Stick Bean” - a bean that comes from the last residents of Cades Cove Kermit and Lois Caughron and John’s ancestors. For his “Potluck Radio” series, Fred Sauceman recalls a Tennessee memories of the Franklin Club...

Genera, a Biomass solutions company in Vonore, Tennessee. 
Today, we are setting the table with a really good story in East, Tennessee Agriculture. We visit with Genera, in Vonore, Tennessee - this is a company that manufactures compostable food service table ware, take out containers and such from domestically sourced, sustainably raised switchgrass and biomass sorghum. Genera is actively recruit...

Today, we are setting the table with Mother’s Day Strawberries. 
I’ve got a recipe for a scratch made strawberry shortcake, and an easy bisquick shortcake for you Mothers’ Day dessert. Fred Sauceman shares a little story about Wayne Scott, one of Tennessee’s most respected strawberry farmers who passed away in 2008. Mary Dee Dee Constantine, retired food editor from the Knoxville News Sentinel has...

And today, we are setting the table with the importance of 4-H and how this organization is so vital to our community through youth development and adult volunteering. Our guests include Dr. Joe Johnson, President Emeritus of the University of Tennessee, retired food editor from the Knoxville News Sentinel - Mary Dee Dee Constantine and her childhood 4-H story, Tony Lawson, co-founder of WDVX Radi...

We visit with a Chef and a small, food business owner in our community, Jenna Baker. She owns and operates “Eat to Be Well” located in downtown Knoxville. We hear how she came to run this sort of business, what drives her, her focus on plant based foods for better health, and her “Be Well Box” business model that she transitioned into at the start of this year. On Fred Sauceman’s “Pot Luck Radio”...

Our guest is Amelia Geis-Scott, Chef and Coordinator of “The Welcome Table” a ministry offered by 2 churches in Blount County, TN offering a hot meal to anyone, 2 week night evenings per week.  Fred Sauceman shares a recipe for slow cooker pork roast, and Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine shares an economical recipe for African Peanut Butter Soup. Plus Amy starts the show off with information on food acc...

Young Farmer, and Holistic Health Coach Rachel McCroskey, Co-Owner of Four Daughters Farm lets us know about her family’s farm located in Walland, Tennessee. Rachel also describes a sculpture that her late GrandMother Joyce McCroskey “Jo Jo” created to honor the memory Polly Toole, an important African American woman who lived in Blount County during the time of the Civil War, who was also an eman...

This episode of The Tennessee Farm table is first information for “Food Triage” in this age of Corona Virus - how to support local, East Tennessee restaurants by utilizing the call ahead, curb side pick up features that many of our smaller restaurants are offering. How to buy directly from farmers in our area who have inventory. How to find food if you do not have a pay check, school closings, or...

A visit with Bianca Morton, Chef Director, and Jennifer Justice, Marketing and Events Manager at the Nashville Food Project. This organization is helping with emergency food response after the devastating tornadoes that hit Nashville and Middle Tennessee the first week of March, 2020. Fred Sauceman shares news of a Turkish restaurant in Johnson City that is quickly becoming on oof the area’s favor...

Crooked Road Farm, South Knoxville, TN & Pal’s Sudden Service This episode includes a visit with Farmer Jonny Buchanan who owns Crooked Road Farm in South Knox County, in Eastern Tennessee. He raises pasture raised eggs, and pork (pork is not certified organic), and he raises certified organic produce. His products can be purchased at Three Rivers Market in Knoxville and he also hosts a CSA. Below...

Helen and Ellen started The Love Kitchen in 1986 feeding 22 people in need. The Love Kitchen now provides a Wednesday food pantry, and serves 500 meals in house and delivers over 3,000 meals to the homebound per week. That’s 155,000 meals a year. Amy visited Helen and Ellen in 2015 and in this recording, you can hear their own voices. Their truth that you will see posted on the wall of the love ki...

My guest today is Chef Christian Moorish. Christian’s job title is Director of Culinary Operations and Foundation Chef at Century Harvest Farms Foundation in Greenback, TN. He is leading a 1/2 day workshop February 15th, at the Appalachian Meat Collective in New Market, TN. This will be a workshop on dry aging and how to prepare a pork loin into “Lonzeno” - a Spanish Style Ham made from pork loin....

Iva Spoon Wilde with Cast Iron Cornbread, make your own butter, fried peach pies. Mary “Dee Dee” Constantine with a recipe for Vietnamese Beef Stew. Fred Sauceman’s “Pot Luck Radio” segment with Pal Kenneth Barger, the man who created an upper East Tennessee favorite eating establishment “Pal’s Sudden Service”.Plus public service announcements about:Citizens Against Pellissippi Parkway Extension “...

News of an “Iron Skillet Lunch” and memories of days gone by - I’ve got news about today’s Winter Heritage Festival taking place in Townsend, TN, January 25th from 10:00 - 2:30 P.M. - A visit with Rachel Davis of J & R Farms who along with her husband John will be cooking the “Iron Skillet Lunch” in cast iron at the Winter Heritage Festival - a visit with the “last woman out of Cades Cove” Lois Sh...

The Community Watering Hole since 1931. The story of an East, Tennessee community treasure  with Bill Houston, 3rd generation owner, & operator of Houston’s Mineral Well, New Market, Tennessee. Bill Houston is a very gifted fine artist with focus primarily on Tennessee landscapes.  He also taught fine art to students at Carson Newman University for over 40 years.  Bill is a 3rd generation, New Mar...

Let’s dream about that spring garden - we visit today with 2 farmers and seed savers from East, Tennessee who help to preserve and share heirloom seed of our region, Michael Washburn, and John Coykendall. These 2 will be presenting a program January 7th at the BCPL in Maryville, TN - and that is the feature of this episode of the Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast. John Coykendall has a bran...

“Traditional New Years Day Good Luck Foods” from 3 different cultures on the latest episode of The Tennessee Farm Table - Appalachian Black eyed peas, collard greens and cornbread in the form of “Hoppin’ John” with Martha Boggs (Owner of the Bistro at the Bijou, Knoxville) - Asian noodles and greens and Lisa Smith’s Hoppin’ John Recipe with Mary Constantine (Food writer for the Knoxville News Sent...

Why do we all eat Pinto Beans in Appalachia, an Appalachian Culinary discussion with Ronni Lundy. It has to do the mining camps, labor wars, the company store, & food insecurity as told by James Beard Award winning Food Writer Ronni Lundy.
Fred Sauceman shares 2 of his pot luck radio segments. A short food story  about a Festive Christmas green and red Pear Salad by way of Margaret Carr. And the 2...

A visit wirh Bailey Foster, Founder of a new business “Real Good Kitchen”, a food incubator launching in 2020, located on Magnolia Avenue, in Knoxville, TN with the goal of Improving our community through food. Fred Sauceman from Johnson City, TN shares a Pot Luck Radio segment from Putnam County, TN where he visits Mark & Sheri Gunther - owners of Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill, and producers of Muddy P...