Investing in agriculture: The Cumberland River Compact’s River Friendly Farms program expands to offer educational opportunities to help farmers thrive. Tennessee is home to nearly 70,000 farms. Covering about 40% […]
Agrarian Commons and the Importance of Land Access for Regenerative Agriculture SUBSCRIBE TO RIVER TALKS ON APPLE PODCASTS, SPOTIFY, OR GOOGLE Summary: The implementation and growth of regenerative agriculture practices that […]
Farmland Under Threat SUBSCRIBE TO RIVER TALKS ON APPLE PODCASTS, SPOTIFY, OR GOOGLE Summary: Across the United States, 11 million acres of farmland have been lost from 2001 to 2016. In Tennessee, […]
Food is Medicine: The Story of Reggie’s Veggies For Reggie Marshall, the connection between healthy food and healthy life has always been clear. While the Jackson, TN native grew up […]
Winding 115 miles, the Harpeth River flows northwest through Franklin and Kingston Springs through cities and past expansive farmlands to eventually reach the Cumberland River. Nearly 250,000 people call this […]
Cynthia may seem like an unlikely farmer, but from a young age she loved farm birds! As a city girl from Chicago, she would visit the chickens at the Lincoln […]
Going on the Offense with Regenerative Agriculture (featuring Mitchell Hora and Jeremiah Durbin) SUBSCRIBE TO RIVER TALKS ON APPLE PODCASTS, SPOTIFY, OR GOOGLE Summary: Now more than ever, farmers are challenged with keeping […]
A CSA that Starts with the Soil Sylvia and Al Ganier have histories of farming in their blood; the tradition has been passed down through both their families. It would […]
Abundantly Fruitful and Helpful to Many, Including the Environment When Lori Birkhead and her husband bought their 96-acre farm in Joelton, TN, they had to start the restoration of their […]
Leigh and Olin Funderburk’s 15-acre farm in Williamson County has a creek with a stone bed that winds almost through the entire farm and lends its identity to the name of their property: Stoney Creek Farm. […]