Randall’s Story

Photo by Sarah Unger

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.

Time seems to slip and unmoor a bit, the way that it can in an open field - distant mountains, distant crows, so quiet, just for a moment or two - as things settle into what feels like a brief oneness.

Nearby, Randall's herd of 10 cows.”