Food as a Verb

09/04/2024

“The human toll of the dry and heat is also rough. Watching crops wither combined with having to be out in the heat doing daily chores can be quite disheartening and makes a person question why in the heck am I even doing this? Luckily, I can remind myself of all the reasons why I love what I do even with all the hardships that we face.“ Kelsey Keener

100 degrees and no rain: this is what farmers say about the summer of 2024.

Farmers speak on heat, drought and how we can help.

09/03/2024

Here’s to one year. 109 stories shared. Thank YOU for helping us bring this to life.
We’re celebrating☝🏼with a new website! Same stories, same soul, just a little makeover.
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08/13/2024

Before we said our goodbyes, Sister Hannah stopped by the blueberries.

“If you have a relationship with something, you’re going to care for it more,” she said. “You don’t have a relationship with aisle 12, but you do have a relationship with these blueberries.”

Full story of nuns, lavender and a mountain garden on FoodasaVerb.com

08/05/2024

“In 2009, we formally moved and officially started calling it the Main Street Farmers’ Market. There was no structure. No rules, no application process. No board, no legal entity. It was a rogue group of farmers,” said Padgett

The turns 15 this year, dig into the history and the beautiful people that pioneered the market we all know and love.

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08/01/2024

How many bags of food can you carry while riding a bike? How long before meat spoils? Or milk goes bad?

Can you carry enough food for a week while walking the two or three miles home?

There’s been a grocery story in that East 23rd Street space for years; first Red Food, then Bi-Lo, then Food City.

And now what..

Dig into the closing of the 23rd St Food City and what it means for this now food-medicine desert.
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07/22/2024

Rouge is Chattanooga’s first true local loaf of bread. Locally grown. Locally milled. Locally baked.

A few years ago, Erik and wife Lauren, owners of , began wondering:
Can we bake a loaf of bread that is entirely local? Grown from local grains on a local farm, milled and cleaned by local hands, baked by our own bakers?

“It’s a humbling reminder that the craft and grains are bigger than you,” Erik began. “This 200-year old wheat from France and a small little bakery in Chattanooga. It’s pretty awesome.”

Dig in🌾 (and enjoy our own adventure *attampting* to create our own local loaf)

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07/15/2024

A tough industry, a tougher woman: Rossville's own spitfire pastry chef.

"I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me."
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07/09/2024

This Saturday! Join us at Bird Fork Farm for a volunteer day from 9AM-Noonish CENTRAL TIME. DM us if you are going to join so we can pass along details. Hope to see you!

07/08/2024

From 2017 to 2022, the rate of farmland-loss accelerated.
Equivalent to 86,588 acres lost per year.
Or 237 acres lost per day.
Or 9.8 acres lost per hour.

Tennessee is facing more threat of farmland loss than nearly all other US states.

Full Story: foodasaverb.com
American Farmland Trust Pick TN Products Civil Eats Tennessee Department of Agriculture

07/08/2024

In the fall of 2017, Stacy Martin was living in Atlanta – she'd soon move to Chattanooga – when she got the news: her mom was diagnosed with stage IV uterine cancer.

07/01/2024

We get the opportunity to talk to a lot of people. People that are passionate about their businesses or land, the food they are growing or cooking... This story hit. We hope you join us in reading and supporting Stacy Martin and Seahorse Snacks.

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CHI Memorial No Stomach For Cancer The Lost Kitchen

06/24/2024

Let’s get our hands dirty together, folks! Saturday, July 13th 9am-noonish we’re headed to for a volunteer morning. Drop us a DM if you plan on joining us. It’ll be a good time!

06/24/2024

Every day for the last 42 years, Sammy Norton has milked cows. Every morning, at 4.30. Every afternoon, again at 4.30.

That’s 15,330 days.

Dig in🖤🐄
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06/17/2024

She whispers and gently guides the horses, with worn leather harness over their massive necks, as they back onto a Pioneer cultivator, the same sort of machine used a century ago, before highways and high speed, in a time of oil lanterns and telegraphs, darkrooms and Smith Coronas…

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06/03/2024

You can take the boy out of the NYC deli, but can’t take the deli out of the boy. Deli culture is a melting pot of smells, tongues and languages and accents, shouting and laughing, the sizzle of presses and grills, the incoming delight of sliced pastrami and warm NYC bagels.

Enjoy River Street Deli
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05/28/2024

You won’t see headlines on Taco Tuesday. No elected officials. But inside? Mighty, unyielding work is happening based on an old formula:

Attention and love can change lives.

Please read🌱
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05/20/2024

Chili Pepper Ranch is home to Wagyu cattle, a Japanese breed that the Osborns steward with great respect, carefully, lovingly, painstakingly attending to all parts of the ranch-to-plate experience.

Read the full story
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05/15/2024

Battle Academy is doing school in a way that feels like life. Thanks to a dynamic program called Cooking Up Learning, 500 elementary students are encountering cooking, food and their own lives in marvelous ways.

This is The Bagel Bash 2024.
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Honey Seed

05/15/2024

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"There's a lot of chocolate."

05/12/2024

When your own well is deep, you’re able to pass along healing water to others. At their core, Wood and Poland – as partners, mothers, businesswomen – do one thing really well: they love on folks.

Join us with as we celebrate these women who have built a business from the one ingredient we all long for, love.

05/06/2024

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05/06/2024

This is a swarm story of relationships, between these precious, vulnerable, mighty insects, the flowering trees and plants around them, the dangers that threaten them, the vast list of foods we enjoy because of their labor, and the beekeepers, like Carmen Joyce, who protect, honor and love these biggest smallest honeybees.

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04/29/2024

“They spoke about the land and planet, farmers and chefs, and how it all means something. It is all delicate and intentional. And in spaces like this, it can all come together and thrive...”

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04/22/2024

“I love being outdoors,” he began. “I love watching things grow. I love to see baby calves running across the field with their tails over their back when they’re four weeks old. I love watching strawberries go from the white bloom to berry. I love seeing other people enjoy it.”

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04/14/2024

In an age of instant-everything, sourdough, which takes its own sweet time, runs against the stream, a delicious countercultural reminder that good things aren't quick.

Today, we are digging into a Chattanooga staple, Bread & Butter
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04/12/2024

https://civileats.com/2024/04/10/how-tennessee-officials-lost-out-on-millions-in-funding-for-farmers-and-food-banks/

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture missed a USDA grant deadline to allow food banks to buy from local farmers. Now, state officials are looking for ways to make up the funds.

04/03/2024

Last Thursday, we sat down at Spice Trail Chatt to experience a taste of Bihar, owner Sujata Singh’s home state in India. An evening completed with childhood stories, tastes and textures that paid homage to Bihar and an intimate setting as if we were sitting right in Singh’s home.

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03/31/2024

“I am passionate about the role that faith communities could play in our food system.”
Kelsey Aebi speaks on spirit, soil and Farm Church.

Happy Easter🌱

Here, worship service includes community service.

03/27/2024

Last weekend Mac's Kitchen & Bar celebrated its one-year anniversary.
Over wine and family-style servings we talked about the beauty that comes when folks find their calling, when work aligns with identity.

We’re here for it. Dig in. 🌱
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03/25/2024

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It's actually possible.