Tagged: local food

1:48pm

Mon May 20, 2013
The Ultimate In Local Food, Perhaps

Can A Backyard Feed A Whole Family? Suburban Homesteaders Try

Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions, by by Oscar H. Will and Karen K. Will gives practical advice to homesteaders.

Homesteading dates back to the pioneer days (remember Little House On The Prairie?), when families grew much of their own food on their own land.  In the modern version, homesteaders avoid grocery stores by planting backyard gardens and raising pigs, rabbits and other animals for meat.  In this segment, WUTC visits Monica and Byron DeLoach, homesteaders who live in North Georgia.

Oscar Hank Will, author of Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions, also joins in the conversation.

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8:41am

Thu March 21, 2013
Farmers Market

Straight from the Farm

Credit Main Street Farmers Market
Main Street Farmers Market

Chattanooga has a variety of farmers markets where you can purchase fresh produce and local food products directly from the producers. 

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11:42am

Thu April 5, 2012