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June 18, 2025
Plan Hamilton and the Unsettling of Hamilton County
When does the land win?
"Our bodies live by farming."
Chattanooga
Coffee
June 15, 2025
Cast Your Buckets: the Rise of Cocoa Cafe and the True Heart of Alton Park
"That is how we build communities."
Reporting from West 38th Street: the first in a two-part series.
Monteagle
Sewanee
Restaurant
June 8, 2025
"The Light is Really Special" at this 20-Farm Restaurant in Sewanee
Come join us for a most special dinner.
"It's a masterpiece," one guest said.
June 1, 2025
Why Did the Mayor Cut All Funding for the Food Bank?
Some $150,000 in direct aid was eliminated.
In a $1 billon budget, how much goes to fight hunger?
May 25, 2025
Grass-to-Milk-to-Cheese with the Young Farmer with the Dragon Tattoo
It felt like a nursery rhyme.
"Have you ever milked anything before?"
May 18, 2025
She's My Partner: a different Food as a Verb story
Save Lilly, the Marine whispered to the vet.
She's my world.
May 11, 2025
But the Fire Burns Hot: Easy Bistro Turns 20
Twenty years ago, a pair of 20-somethings took the biggest risk of their lives.
Happy 20th, Easy.
Chattanooga
May 4, 2025
Welcome to The Table: a new form of community
More events, more content, more community.
You asked. We listened. Join us at The Table.
Chattanooga
April 27, 2025
A Guy Walks Into a Bar ... and Changes Our City's Beer Scene Forever
Like a pitcher who throws a perfect game. An outlier among outliers.
He's created more than 200 beers, ya'll.
April 20, 2025
Sharing and Wine: the French Travel to Chattanooga
From Meigs County to Burgundy, it's the same story.
A little French, a little Easter, a little wine.
art
Chef
Chattanooga
April 13, 2025
Create and Disappear: Welcome to Our First Annual Art Show
Why aren't chefs considered artists, too?
"I Don't Care About Your Micro-greens."
Chattanooga
April 6, 2025
"This is Catastrophic" - Federal Cuts and the Chattanooga Area Food Bank
Some 20% of funding's been lost.
It could get even worse.
farming
March 30, 2025
Farmers Speak: Tariffs, Bird Flu, Funding Cuts and What We Can Do
Meet your farmer. Look them in the eye.
They will care for you and your family.
Restaurant
Chattanooga
March 23, 2025
Everything Affects Everything: a Day in the Life of a Brisket and Spare Ribs
The story begins with a single log.
"Texas barbecue is about this relentless pursuit of perfection."
Chattanooga
March 16, 2025
Raising Chickens in the Best Outdoor City
Why are backyard chickens illegal?
Here's how to raise your own.
Chattanooga
March 9, 2025
"It's Hardest to Get Food" - The Hope of Chattanooga's Food Co-op
One million members, 38 states. Why not a food co-op here?
Welcome to the Chattanooga Community Cooperative.
Bread
Bakery
March 2, 2025
Oxford's Local Loaf: an old story told new
The story of Rouge, retold.
Food as a Verb, meet Oxford American.
Chattanooga
February 24, 2025
Sixty Years Ago: "Man Shot Dead at Restaurant"
The year was 1964.
An untold story from a long-ago Chattanooga restaurant.
farming
education
February 16, 2025
Calling for Help: How Do You Farm Without Land?
It’s as close to a real-life miracle.
A farmer, his herd and the heartache of liminal space.
farming
thank you
February 9, 2025
We're All Writing Love Letters Together
It all rolls back to love.
This is our Valentine's to you.
farming
Chattanooga
February 2, 2025
Where is the Plan for our Regional Food Plan?
We can create a regional food plan.
Heavens-to-Betsy. Am I the only one confused here?
Chef
Restaurant
January 26, 2025
The Look-Good, Taste-Good Style of Antonio Tate, the Sneakerhead Chef
"I'm a creative, so I'm big on style."
Meet Chattanooga's Sneakerhead Chef
January 19, 2025
All the Light Possible: Dani García's Tres Leches Cake
One cake contains struggle, dreams and sweetness.
The story of four generations of women and one Tres Leches cake.
Restaurant
Chattanooga
January 12, 2025
Freedom Is: the Bohemian Village story
Step inside east Chattanooga's most authentic, loving juice bar.
Silas Luster, representation and the meaning of freedom.
thank you
Chattanooga
January 5, 2025
Peach or Barf? We Need a Small Favor, Please
(We'd love to be your Third Best Media Friend.)
Isn’t it funny what life - and 2025 - will bring?
Spirits
Chattanooga
December 29, 2024
Romance, story and stars: a New Year's Eve invitation
Let the bottle find you.
Wine tells a story. Can we listen?
Chattanooga
December 22, 2024
Something Bigger: a Welcome Home Christmas Story
Where do you go when you're homeless and dying?
"You know the story about the Grinch whose heart shrinks three sizes too small? I feel like mine has grown three sizes so large."
Restaurant
farming
Chattanooga
December 15, 2024
Grace and Letting Go: My First Burger Since 2002
After 20 years of one thing, there was grace to find another.
What did it taste like? My first burger since W. was president?
education
Chattanooga
farming
December 8, 2024
Farm to Table is not the Full Story
We need a circle, not a straight line.
Farm-to-table. It's our beloved phrase. But it doesn't tell the whole story.
Chattanooga
December 1, 2024
The Most Beautiful Meal of the Year
Welcome to the 2024 Gratefull Lunch
All the great parts of life were there, all compressed in a few hours' of warm food, generosity and community.
LFPA
November 24, 2024
The ship has sailed: the inside story of TDA and LFPA Plus.
An exclusive Food as a Verb report
In February 2024, the CEO of a Tennessee food bank emailed a high-ranking Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) employee from her iPhone. The subject line? LFPA Plus.
Spirits
November 17, 2024
Meet Bill the Wine Guy and the Willamette Valley
There's nobody like him - or his 60-foot aisle of Pruett's Market wine - in Chattanooga.
Bill Hull is the in-house wine expert - "the wine guy" - at Pruett's Market, the Signal Mountain grocery store.
Bread
November 10, 2024
How to Bake a Post-Election Loaf
A poem for uncertain times.
When your heart breaks its leash, Let it go. Let it run.
farming
Chattanooga
November 3, 2024
Without them, we don't eat: a few thoughts on labor.
These are loud days. Two farmers offer perspective.
Roy and his daughter Rebecca run their 1100-acre Jones Farm in north Alabama. Their main crop? Fruit, with some vegetables, grown on 15 acres. During prime season, they need a dozen workers, sometimes more.
farming
Restaurant
Chattanooga
October 27, 2024
Know Your Burger: a true farm-to-table story
Meet your local butcher, farmer, processor and cow in this special Food as a Verb presentation.
Our story spotlights a wholesome, intentional relationship between farmers, processors, butchers, animals and restaurant owners. In life and death, these relationships are built on respect. They benefit all involved.
gut health
Chattanooga
Restaurant
October 20, 2024
Help Heal the System: the Southern Squeeze story
They lined up outside her college apartment. Now, it's Riverview. Kelsey Vasileff's life - and recipes - make others healthy.
Standing tall in a family of meat-eaters, Kelsey Vasileff was 10 when she made her announcement: I'm going vegetarian.
farming
Chattanooga
October 13, 2024
"Ain't No Power in Paint"
Memories and wisdom from a long-ago wheat threshing.
Today's feature is written by Dr. Robin Fazio, long-time farmer, educator and founder of Baylor School's gardening program and Mechanics' Club.This is a story of authenticity and confidence, not shiny bluster.
October 6, 2024
The Ground Beneath Us: Boyd Buchanan Teaches Agriculture for the 21st century
"It's my favorite part of school."
It is a mid-morning Monday on the 65-acre Boyd Buchanan campus and a dozen students in Melissa Owens's Agriscience class are planting yellow onion sets, moving zinnia transplants to the greenhouse, checking on - really, cuddling - the lop-eared bunny, tilling new beds, making plans for a fall flower sale.
farming
Chattanooga
September 29, 2024
Hamilton County's agrarian crisis: only 1,274 acres of cropland remain.
Hamilton County's lost 5,000 acres of farmland since 2001. And you can't farm without land and money. Where are our county leaders?
What do you need to know in order to farm?That's the question being asked by Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers and Crabtree Farms, who are planning to offer free, farmer-led workshops on sustainable-ag topics next year.
Coffee
Chattanooga
September 22, 2024
Welcome to Sprodeo: a love letter to Chattanooga coffee
What happens when Chattanooga's best baristas compete?
On Thursday evening, as Smash Boyz served last-call burgers from the grill and folks downed their second or third drink - Coors in a can, peach LaCroix, 16 oz. Liquid Death - while kicked back on folding chairs inside a Red Bank garage, Tyler Sowrey stepped out from behind the silver-sexy Slayer espresso machine and carried forward two cortados - half steamed milk, half espresso - poured into small, snow-white cups.
Chattanooga
Restaurant
September 15, 2024
Welcome to Lupi's: a story of the simple things.
There was a time you couldn't get a good slice + beer in this town. Dorris Shober changed that.
We are strolling through Flying Turtle Farm, the 68 acres in Cloudland, Georgia, where Dorris Shober and husband John care for pigs, Brangus cattle, a spiral garden, vegetables and flowers - like celosia and zinnias, which Dorris gently talks about like they're dear friends - when this one question almost jumps out of my mouth.
Chef
Restaurant
Chattanooga
September 8, 2024
Tall boys, $9 burgers and life-changing hospitality:
An honest conversation with Erik and Amanda Niel
Since 2005, Erik and Amanda Niel have been exquisitely intentional about taking care of Chattanoogans, building their restaurant careers here on this very premise."We've made them feel comfortable," Amanda said. "If you're really good at it, people have an emotional connection."
thank you
September 1, 2024
Our Labor Day edition:
Easy like Sunday morning
Today? We're exhaling, non-laboring for Labor Day and hope you will, too.
thank you
anniversary
Chattanooga
August 25, 2024
Happy Birthday, Food as a Verb friends
Our party is your party, too.
For our one-year birthday, we welcome to our new website home. We hope you love it. We sure do.
Chattanooga
August 18, 2024
The meal that tastes like letting go
A story on moving your first-born into college.
The more I talk with our local farmers, the more I realize: it's all generosity. It's all grown with love.
Sewanee
Markets
farming
August 11, 2024
Fixing the broken parts: nuns, lavender, a mountain garden.
"I would rather be here than anywhere else."
Claire Sims found the garden all the way from Wetumpka, Alabama, some 200 miles away. She grew up in a very strict church, whose beliefs – women can't preach in the pulpit or speak with authority – pushed her even farther away.
Markets
farming
August 4, 2024
Our city's true market: a few rogue farmers and an idea that changed Chattanooga.
Happy Birthday, Main Street Farmers' Market.
Fifteen years ago, maybe longer, Miriam Keener had an idea."We need a farmer-run market," she said.
Chattanooga
education
July 28, 2024
What happens to a neighborhood without a grocery and pharmacy?
Highland Park is a food-medicine desert.
It's a strange, dizzying time for Highland Park and the 37404 zip code that stretches down Dodds Ave., across the foot of Missionary Ridge, onto the lively Main Street.
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