Rural Resources is all about LOCAL FOOD! Based in the agricultural heart-land of rural, Appalachian, East Tennessee we are connecting local farms and food with families! Our region has traditionally been one of small scale subsitance farms where nearly every family milked a cow, kept some chickens, and grew a garden. But, in recent generations, we've seen a growing disconnect between our families and the food we eat. The results are an aging farming popluation and a new culture of diet related health illness that includes obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and more.
We want to change all that! Using our community farm as home base and our Mobile Farmers' Market to connect local farms with YOU we want to help you experience where your food comes from: growing it, cooking it, and/or eating it! We are involving youth in the experience and working with local growers to promote and distribute real, nutritious, food to families all around our hometown of Greeneville, TN and beyond! Do you want to be a part of teaching or learning? Growing produce for the community? Or, do you just want to sink your teeth into a juicy tomato with real taste? If your answer is yes, we want to connect with you! Contact us or check out all the ways you can purchase local food!
We are excited about this food adventure! We invite you to join the fun...GROW IT, COOK IT, EAT IT! Know Farms! Know Food!
Rural Resources, Tusculum College, and Christ United Methodist Church
invite you to join us for
Food Movie Night and Rain Barrel Silent Auction
Thursday, February 2nd at Christ United Methodist Church, 307 South Main, Greeneville. We will show Ingredients, a documentary by Robert Bates that explores the local foods movement and its origins, including interviews with farmers, politicians, and locavore champions like Alice Waters and Peter Hoffman.
The rain barrels for auction are hand-painted by students at Tusculum College. Each one features a recreation of a well-known work of art, rendered in bright weather-ready paint--set to move from the event straight into your garden. All proceeds benefit Rural Resources.
A local foods dinner kicks off the evening at 5:30pm, $10 adults/$4 children and students with ID. The movie and auction are FREE and start at 6:15pm. Please RSVP for dinner, so we can be sure to have enough food. Childcare provided, with fun food-themed activities to keep your young ones busy while you enjoy yourself!
Rain barrel painted by Danielle Armstrong
We're all about involving Youth with Local Food!
The Rural Resources Farm and Food Teen Training Program teaches at-risk youth in the Greeneville area to grow, eat, cook, and sell healthy local foods! Along the way, they learn leadership skills, give back to community, and even create and run their own businesses.
Click here to watch a video!
