Tennessee Farms

According to the American Farmland Association, Tennessee is now tied with North Carolina & Florida for the largest amount of farmland that is lost each year.

I just read this quote on the Franklin Farmers' Market site. It doesn't surprise me at all, as we note the For Sale signs and new condos and city homes that seem to be appearing even out near Leiper's Fork, and further. Something I've been wanting to do for a long time, but never taken the time to research it, is to visit, educate myself on, and support local farms. From time to time I head out to the downtown Farmers' Market but it is by no means a habit. So I am going to start a side listing of local organic food farmers and will occasionally, hopefully, update this site as to my findings. Partially fueled by reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, and partly by my sadness of seeing farmland and forest "develop" into buildings frighteningly quickly in my 10+ years of living here, I feel I must go see some of it before it disappears forever.
If you have a local farm or local food resource that you know of, please tell let me know.