Faith in the Soil, Part 4: The Theology of the Table and the Slow Food Revival Modern life has pushed the dinner table to the margins. We eat in cars, at desks, between appointments, or with a screen ...
It feels like it was yesterday that I was walking the grounds of Spade & Spoon in Johnson City, admiring the culinary garden and talking with Dr. Sarah Long about her vision for the region’s...
I don’t know about anyone else, but in my mind, one of the best things God ever put on the Earth is the cocoa bean. Since roughly 3300 B.C., people have been domesticating and consuming this inc...
Faith in the Soil, Part 3: Ancient Welfare, Modern Pastures Stand next to a conventional feedlot and take a deep breath. You’ll smell ammonia, dust—and something harder to ignore: stress. Modern...
Faith in the Soil: The Biblical Agrarian Movement, Part 2 If you stand on a ridge in the Appalachian Highlands and look down into the valleys, you won’t see what you see in the Midwest. There ar...
Faith in the Soil Series, Part 1 If you observe a modern, large-scale commercial farm today, you will see a wonder of industrial efficiency and productivity. Fields go on for miles in perfect, uniform...
Photos Courtesy of Old Morris Farm, LLC We met Eric and Lesley Guerra at Vintage Market Days a few months ago. Their handcrafted goat milk products caught our eye, but their story captured us. The Gue...
You immediately feel the contrast between the sharp, cold spring wind and the warm, lively activity of the farm’s seasonal reopening when driving through the front gate and heading down the narr...
The Creative Pulse of Tennessee’s Oldest Town: Discovering Mill Spring Makers Market Every time I get to Jonesborough, Tennessee, I can feel it. The place just has a spirit. Not one of those mus...
Today, I found myself pulling up to 594 Highway 126 in Bristol, Tennessee, just in time for the grand reopening of the Big Red Apple Shed. The energy in the parking lot told the whole story before I e...