The Booth at Waffle House
One ordinary breakfast booth becomes a place of memory, gratitude, and reckoning with a father’s service—and the enduring dignity of a faithful life and honest work.
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Healthy Soil: The Wellspring of Life
Owner/operators of Liberty Trace Farm, Kevin and Mikki Krause, educate people on the necessity of soil microbiology to grow nutrient-dense foods for optimal health.
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Southern Comfort Food: Old Fashioned Tea Cakes
The storied history of the Southern Tea Cake ties us to those generations who made them before us.
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Returning to the Ginger Root
As another cold and flu season approaches, I find myself thinking less about the latest headlines and more about the quiet wisdom that once filled the kitchen pantries of our grandmothers. Long before pharmacy aisles stretched for hundreds of feet, families relied on the ordinary gifts of the garden and the pantry. They knew which
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Returning Home to Local Food
Farm stands, home gardens, and small growers shorten the distance between land and table—and remind us that food carries culture, memory, stewardship, and the life of a community.
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The Little Garden in Front of the Shelter
A meticulously tended garden in front of a Clarksville shelter reveals something larger than tomatoes and lettuce: dignity, stewardship, and hope taking root in an unlikely place.
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Don’t Miss the Harvest
Once I committed to eating fresh, local food in season, I began to notice something I had overlooked for years. The calendar wasn’t only measured in months. It was measured in strawberries, peaches, tomatoes, figs, pumpkins, and apples. Each one arrived with little fanfare, stayed only a short while, and quietly disappeared until the following
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Regenerative Gardening
Regenerative gardening begins with a different way of seeing: not a plot to manage into submission, but a living community of soil, roots, insects, flowers, food, and patient care.
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