THE TENNESSEE FARM TABLE is a weekly podcast & radio show featuring the people of the state of Tennessee who produce, prepare and preserve foods and agricultural products. The radio show ends with a bluegrass gospel song, usually from a regional musician or band. Listen to the podcast straight from this website on the page “Listen to the show”, or from your favorite podcast app.
WHY: To celebrate our region’s unique culture through regional foodways. Also to improve our regional economy, community, food access, recipe sharing, and folklore.
Who is behind the Tennessee Farm Table? Amy Campbell is the founder, owner, and producer of The Tennessee Farm Table. This is a “1 woman operation” at this writing.
Closer definition of produce, prepare, and preserve:
Produce: (farmers, gardeners, producers of animal, vegetable, value added products, educators)
Prepare: (Chefs, home cooks, recipe developers, and organizations addressing food insecurity)
Preserve: (writers, food preservationists, museums, non profit organizations involved in the promotion and preservation of Mountain South foodways)
Frequent contributors:
- Mary Constantine - Retired Food Editor, the Knoxville News Sentinel.
- Fred Sauceman - Each week, Amy includes a 2 minute segment produced by Fred of Appalachian Foodways entitled “Pot Luck Radio”. Fred is Senior Writer and Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies, East Tennessee State University, News Director, WETS-FM, 89.5, Food Writer for Blue Ridge Country magazine , Columnist for Smoky Mountain Living magazine , Author of the book The Proffitts of Ridgewood: An Appalachian Family's Life in Barbecue.
- Jack Neely - Executive Director of the Knoxville History Project.
- East Tennessee's Own, Emi Sunshine sings our theme song. The theme song was written by Amy Campbell.
How to listen:
- Anytime via podcast: https://www.tennesseefarmtable.com/new-blog/
- The show is broadcast every week by radio on 2 non-commercial Tennessee Radio stations:
Saturday morning 9:00 - 9:30 A.M. on 89.9.fm, WDVX, Knoxville.
Saturday afternoons 2:00 - 2:30 P.M. on 88.1 WUTC, Chattanooga.
Sunday afternoons 1:00 P.M. from Radio Bristol.
*The Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast is broadcast from WDVX and WUTC as media outlets only. The Tennessee Farm Table is independently owned and produced by Amy Campbell, it is not the property of WDVX or WUTC nor is it produced by WDVX or WUTC. Amy Campbell and Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast do not receive funding from WDVX or WUTC Radio They are separate entities and all opinions expressed on the Tennessee Farm Table are those of Amy Campbell, or visiting guests and are not the opinions of WDVX or WUTC.
Amy’s Bio:
Amy Campbell created the Tennessee Farm Table Radio Show & Podcast in August of 2014. She created the Tennessee Farm Table to provide a platform to feature farmers, James Beard Award-winning chefs, Granny cooks, stories, recipes, growers, food writers, and people associated with regional agriculture and culture. All of this to encourage listeners to buy from their neighbor, shop at their local farmers’ markets, swap seeds and plants, and increase awareness, appreciation, and sales for our local farmers and makers of regional agriculturally based products. Often, Amy includes stories from our neighbors in surrounding states throughout Appalachia.
Amy and her husband (Marc Rochelson) publish a Lifestyle magazine “West Knoxville Lifestyle”, which is delivered to homes and businesses in zip codes of 37919, 37922) where Amy features Tennessee Farm Table topics frequently. Amy serves as Managing Editor.
Amy is a Knoxville native, a former PR Representative for the City of Knoxville with the Knoxville Farmers' Market, a founding board member of the Maryville Farmers' Market, Market Manager for the Maryville Farmers' Market in its 1st year( 2005). She is an avid gardener and seed saver, and fine artist. Amy holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and an MFA in Graphic Design from UTK. Amy is a former professor of Art from Maryville College, she is heavily invested in her community, has served on numerous boards, and seeks to help others make community connections.
Amy has volunteered with WDVX Radio since 1996 (before, during, and after the camper). She hosts two radio shows each Saturday morning beginning at 9 a.m. (The Tennessee Farm Table, and Sweetgrass, the Softer Side of Bluegrass with a peppering of classic country.) WDVX.com and The Tennessee Farm Table is also broadcast each Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. from Radio Bristol.
She and her husband enjoy a rural lifestyle along with 1 cat and 2 donkeys. They enjoy growing a little bit of food, flowers, and mowing enormous amounts of grass on 6 acres in Maryville, Tennessee.
Amy Campbell, Founder, Producer, and Hostess of the Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast. photographed by Laura Pierpont
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