This is the first in a six-part series in a Collaboration between Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers Coalition and Food as a Verb.

“Randall Tomlinson, hair braided down his back and dog named Gizzard at his feet, is standing in a Marion County pasture when the rain begins to fall. It's a soft rain, almost gentle, and neither Randall, nor Gizzard, seem to mind.”

This is the second in a six-part series of stories in partnership with Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers Coalition and Food as a Verb.

“The scene was like a psalm. A flock of sheep graze in the tall grass - fescue, orchard grass, clover's coming soon - at the base of green mountains, as fat clouds - they, too, white and fluffy - ease across a big blue sky. It even smells like a nursery rhyme: fresh, verdant, innocent.”

This is the third article in a six-part series of stories produced through a partnership between us the Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers Coalition and Food as a Verb.

“Before you hear the stories about Miss Rose or the homeless man's cantaloupe or the way the dozens of kids plant-steward-harvest like a 21st-century army of Old McDonalds, there are a few facts that bear standing up, each flowing out of this very special farm in the middle of a south Chattanooga food desert.”