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Welcome to September!
August is full of fresh veggies and sun filled afternoons. We hope you are taking full advantage of the late summer produce by visiting your local farmers market. This month we have tips on how to keep that summer garden full of life, a conversation with the lady behind Knoxville's premier farmers market and some low tech plants that serve some high tech functions. Pour yourself a tall glass of sweet tea, and read on.
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Tennessee Trees: Meet our New State Forester and Wildland Fire Chief
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Did you know half of Tennessee is covered by forest land? The care and protection of that land is overseen by Tennessee’s State Forester, David Arnold. Arnold was just recently appointed to the position by Governor Bill Haslam and he has some new goals for one of the state’s most important resources. Also, wildfire season is just a few months away. Meet the state’s new wildland fire chief, Wade Waters. Listen now.
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Agriculture making headlines
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In junior high, Andrew Dixon and his brother, Philip, began selling corn stalk bundles to crafting enthusiasts to earn spending money. In 2005, a neighboring agritourism farmer retired and encouraged the young men to take up the torch. The next fall, the Dixons, along with their parents, Steve and Karen, opened Grandaddy’s Farm in Estill Springs to the public, adding a tourism element to the mainstay crops of corn, wheat and soybeans on the property cultivated by the younger Dixons’ great-grandfather, Charles, in 1951. Learn how agritourism is expanding agriculture »
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The silhouettes created for the 2018 summer “Joyful Flight: A Hummingbird Exhibit,” on display at the UT Gardens, Knoxville, will be auctioned on Sunday, September 9. The auction is the last phase of an art project designed to promote community participation and artist collaboration as well awareness and support for the UT Gardens.
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In Tennessee, a growing number of farmers markets are putting more dollars into farmers’ pockets while helping hungry people maximize their access to fresh food. Forty of Tennessee’s farmers markets now work with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the federal government’s primary anti-hunger program.
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