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Today we are setting the table with a visit with a tremendously talented 14-year-old musician who makes his home in East Tennessee, Wyatt Ellis. He sings in that high lonesome sound and plays in a style all his own, heavily influenced by the sounds of the father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, along with Peter Rowan and Bobby Osborne.

Keep that kitchen cool; cook it outside!. How to cook juicy chicken and trout over live fire with Chef David Olsen of Live Fire Republic and Chef Joseph Lenn, owner of J.C. Holdway, Knoxville, TN.

Corn, Corn Relish, and Corn Cob Jelly recipes with Rachel Abbott Davis of J and R Farms, TN, plus a beautiful audio essay on corn from author and gardener Kelly Smith Trimble.

Today, we are setting the table with slow food. Food that takes time to grow and time to prepare. Guests today are Sarah Bush from Slow Food TN Valley, Rachel McCroskey of Four Daughter’s Farm of Walland, TN - and Josh Lowans with his wife Meagan’s recipe for cornbread salad. Sarah will tell us about the international organization called Slow Food and the TN Valley Chapter of this organization - a...

Today we visit with Tennessee farmers who practice regenerative agriculture and have news about Appalachian Homecoming. A three-day event celebrating and studying modern Appalachian cuisine and farming issues. Our guests include: - Christopher Burger, Brenna Powers Wright, Carrie Garvey, and chef Robert Allen of Bluestem Hollow, Greenback, TN. - Aliceson Bales of Bales Farm is located in Mosheim,...

We are setting the table with Recipes for Cobblers, Jam, and Pie made from fruits of the season. Guests include: - Farmers Susan and John Keller have been farming in Blount County, TN, on their family farm in continuous operation since 1890. UT Extension awarded John Keller Tennessee Farmer of the Year in 2014. Susan Keller shares a recipe for Miss Lily’s Blackberry Cobbler. This recipe comes from...

Guests on this topic include Lois Shuler Caughron and her daughter Ruth Caughron Davis. Lois is known as the last woman out of the cove. Lois and her late husband, Kermit Caughron, were the last settlers to move from Cades Cove after establishing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. - Aliceson Bales of Bales Farm, Mosheim, TN, with her recipe for Buttermilk chicken and how to make chicken brot...

Today we are setting the table with a visit with a tremendously talented 14-year-old musician who makes his home in East Tennessee, Wyatt Ellis. He sings in that high lonesome sound and plays in a style all his own, heavily influenced by the sounds of the father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, along with Peter Rowan and Bobby Osborne. Wyatt has had quite a year in his 13th year, in 2022, with highlight...

Our featured guest on the show today is Allan Benton of Madisonville, TN. Allan shares his story on how he learned what the word prosciutto meant and how he positioned his product to the world of fine dining. Allan's prosciutto goes toe to toe with some of the most expensive, well-known prosciuttos from all over the world. From Radio Bristol's Farm and Fun Time show, recorded live from the Birthpl...

Today, we are setting the table with Family Farming. We visit with Mike and Tammy Zavels of Zavels Family Farms in Corryton, TN. This farming family is a very successful family farm in the eastern region of Tennessee. They will let us know how they got into farming, how the family has grown, and the diversity of farm products they produce. They also give some experienced advice to those contemplat...

Asian Southern Fusion - Jessica Carr, Owner of Girl’s Gotta Eat Good (Knoxville’s first Asian Bakery), and Vic Scott, co-owner of Seoul Brothers, Hong’s Kitchen, and Bubbles and Cream Knoxville about their upcoming event Knox AAPI Night Market, May 19th, 2023 at Highwire Brewing, South Knoxville. And the Knox AAPI Business Association that they have founded. Plus, they share family recipes for Gim...

A visit with Singer and Songwriter Sarah Pickle, a Tennessee Treasure, program director, and fiddle instructor with Smoky Mountain JAM, Junior Appalachian Musicians program. I also asked her how she wrote her song The Piney Rose and about her chicken and dumplings. Also, Jenn Bowen, Museum Educator at the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend describes the upcoming “Kids take over the...

Searching for that fifth taste of “Umami” with a morel mushroom hunt, cook, and asparagus. My guests are Chris Burger and Chef Robert Allen of Bluestem Hollow. Plus, Author and Gardener Kelly Smith Trimble. ⁣ ⁣ Kelly is also presenting an Author talk and book signing Saturday, April 22, from 2-4 at the Blount County Public Library in Downtown Maryville, Tennessee. Plus news of the Tuckaleechee gar...

Today, Special Growers, Maryville, TN, offers workforce development training and employment for people with learning differences who age out of high school and special education classes. Their story and Chattanooga Bakery’s Moonpie on my latest podcast and radio broadcast. Hope to have the honor of your good company! Thanks! At Special Growers, they grow culinary herbs and cut flowers and are supp...

My guests are Karen Zorio with her hot cross bun recipe, Farmer, Homesteader, and Cookbook Author Aliceson Bales with her Mother’s deviled egg recipe and some tips for peeling boiled eggs. Chef Joseph Blauvelt, Instructor/Program Coordinator of Pellissippi State Community College Culinary Arts program. Along with news of The Foothills Sip TN Wine Festival coming up on the Pellissippi Blount County...

The Legendary University of Tennessee Football Coach Phillip Fulmer raises bees and is my guest on this episode. Coach Fulmer is passionate about raising awareness for honey bees and was generous with his time to record this story in order to advocate for the importance of these bees.

Today we are setting the table with a farm visit. We visit with a farmer, garden manager, farm manager, and Chef from Bluestem Hollow, located in Greenback, TN. They also operate a downtown Knoxville urban farm - The Old City Gardens on Depot Ave. On the Greenback farm, they raise grassland beef, chickens for pastured eggs, and sustainably grown fruits and vegetables, along with a lovely event ven...

Today, we are setting the table with Mead. My guest is Jay Martin, Co-Owner of Flora De Mel, a Meadery and full-service restaurant located in Rossville, GA, just over the state line of TN from downtown Chattanooga. Jay is a proponent of urban beekeeping. This business sprang out of his and his business partner and wife Stephanie’s beekeeping. And in this show, Jay will answer the question of …What...

Helping the Honeybee with D & Jim Brown, Honey Rock Herb Farm owners, Louisville, Tennessee. This is their 36th year of growing the good life at Honey Rock Herb Farm, and they have raised bees for over 40 years. They share with us how important bees and pollinators are to all of us, how to attract them, and steps we can take to protect them. Also, in Fred Sauceman’s Pot Luck Radio series, he f...

Seed Saving & Stories with our seed-saving pal John Coykendall of Knoxville, TN. John tells us how he became a seed saver, some of the varieties he has saved, where to find old-time heirloom seed like the ones he saves, and shares plus some cute stories. John and I (Amy) worked together in the garden at Blackberry Farm together in 2007, where I learned from John the importance of this heirloom...

Today, we are setting the table with a brand new book, The Creative Vegetable Gardener, written by a Tennessee Author, Kelly Smith Trimble. 60 ways to cultivate Joy, Playfulness, and Beaty, along with a bounty of food. Kelly also shares a recipe for carrot top pesto. This book offers a different take on backyard gardening, encouraging us to rethink the rules of vegetable gardening. Breaking out of...

In this Valentine season, I (Amy Campbell) wanted to share a story of true love. Helen and Ellen founded The Love Kitchen on Valentine’s Day, 1986, feeding 22 people in need. I visited Helen and Ellen in 2015, and you can hear their voices in this podcast. Their truth that you will see posted on the wall of the love kitchen is “Everybody is God’s Somebody.” Three truths their Daddy taught them: 1....

Aliceson Bales of Bales Farm, Mosheim, Tennessee, with her cookbook, shares with us the cooking aspects and nutritional properties of lard from pasture-raised animals. Aliceson also shares a recipe for her white cheddar pimento cheese from her cookbook “Bales Farm Cookbook” with the forward written by Dolly Parton. Marshall Bales, currently 15 years old and the 6th generation to farm on Bales Farm...

Bill Houston narrates the story of Houston's Mineral Water, New Market, Tennessee - still going strong since 1931 - Bill Houston is the the owner and operator of this Mineral Well that his Grandfather established and this is a treasured watering hole for the community.
http://www.houstonsmineralwater.com/ Bill Houston is a very gifted fine artist with focus primarily on Tennessee landscapes. He al...

Today, we visit with Sheila Pennycuff, a Librarian at the Blount County Public Library located in Maryville, TN, and the woman who took an old wooden card catalog and turned it into a seed library. This seed library is located inside the Blount County Public Library. It is an essential service to the community where patrons check out seeds and contribute seeds back to the seed library.⁣ We also he...