Food Matters: Pellissippi State Edible Schoolyard at Pond Gap Elementary
This is the first in a series of feature articles highlighting various key players addressing food access and food system issues here in Knoxville. It was a crisp autumn morning at the edible schoolyard as community volunteers plucked…
Knoxville Regional Foodshed Assessment Released!
As part of the Plan East Tennessee partnership, the Food Policy Council’s own Chad Hellwinckle, along with colleagues at the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Policy Analysis Center recently authored an assessment of the Knoxville Regional…
What If Kids Designed Our Neighborhoods?
Knoxville area kids were recently asked what they’d like their neighborhoods to look like and what they need to make healthy choices. The Eat, Play, Live partnership, with the YMCA and Together! Healthy Knox teamed…
FPC Spring 2013 Community Research Findings and Recommendations Released
In the Spring of 2013, the Knoxville-Knox County Food Policy Council completed a research effort targeting two important health/economic issues in Knox County. 1. Food access (insecurity) issues for City and County residents 2. Farm…
Knoxville Region Foodshed Map Released!
Recently, Plan East Tennessee (PlanET) partnered with the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Policy Analysis Center to produce a Regional Food System Assessment. The final assessment is forthcoming, but as part of the project a Knoxville…
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City Seeks Input on Zoning Changes for Urban Gardens
With increased interest in community gardens and locally produced foods, the City of Knoxville is ready to propose changes in the zoning ordinance that will make it easier for individuals and community groups to establish farming on privately held land. Anyone interested in community gardens,…
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Find Area Farmer’s Markets, Pick-Your-Own and Sale-On-Site Farms!
Want to know where you can buy local produce? Check out this map of area Knoxville Area Farmers’ Markets, Pick-Your-Own and Sale-on-Site Farms! Listings…
Do You Live in One of Knox County’s 20 Food Deserts?
Have you heard the term “food desert?” These are areas…
Would You Like to Be a Member Food Policy Council?
The Knoxville-Knox County Food Policy Council is led by appointees…
The Nation’s and World’s First Food Policy Council
Did you know that the Knoxville-Knox County Food Policy Council…
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Knoxville’s Food Week Kickoff!
Knoxville’s Food Week had a productive start on Saturday, Oct. 18 at Pond Gap Elementary’s Edible Schoolyard, a community school garden. The kickoff today at CAC Beardsley Community Farm kept the momentum going with some great talks, proclamations from the city and county mayors, and…
Knoxville’s Food Week!
Please Join Food Policy Council and partner organizations for a week-long observance and celebration of Food Day! October 18-26! Food Day inspires Americans to change their diets and our food policies. Every October 24, thousands of events all around the country bring Americans together to celebrate and…
Food Matters in Our Community!
Food Matters in Knoxville and Knox County! Did you know that when you spend $100 at a locally owned business $45 stays in the community? If that same $100 were spent at a national chain only $13 would stay in the local community. In Knox…
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15% of TN Households Are Food Insecure
Food-insecure households are those that were, at times, unable to acquire adequate food for one or more household members due to insufficient money or other resources for food, over the course of a year. As of 2011, households in Tennessee experiencing food insecurity were up…
