Small batch Tennessee Maple Syrup and Asparagus

by Amy Campbell

S11:E15. 04.13.2024

Small batch Tennessee Maple Syrup and Asparagus

We welcome spring in Tennessee with Clint Smith’s Small batch Tennessee maple syrup doings. And Author, Podcaster, gardener, and YouTube channel favorite “Digging It,” Kelly Smith Trimble on the topic of Asparagus.

Clint Smith: Clint is available by email, just email me first and I will text him.

Kelly Smith Trimble: https://www.kellysmithtrimble.com/

Emi Sunshine (sings our theme song): https://theemisunshine.com/

Clint Smith holds a bottle of his small batch of maple syrup.

Photo The kind, smart, and amazing Kelly Smith Trimble. https://www.kellysmithtrimble.com/

Femeika "Meik" Elliott, Founder and owner of Meik Meals, Rooted East, and The Lotus Experience, Knoxville

by Amy Campbell

S11:E5. 02/03/2024

Femeika "Meik" Elliott, Creator, and Owner of Meik Meals, Knoxville Amy Campbell - The Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast

Today, we are setting the table with pant-based eating and how this helps new moms. Today, my first guest is Meik Elliott, creator, and owner of Meik Meals. This young, black, Knoxville-based entrepreneurial chef creates foods that give us that comfort of taste while using healthier ingredients. Meik encourages people to make lifestyle choices that nurture the body, mind, and soul. She specifically works with postpartum Mothers to help them feel their best through food, education, and meditation with her Lotus program. Meik also speaks to groups throughout the community about her work.

Fred Saucepan’s potluck radio segment features Cherokee poet and storyteller Marilou Awiakta.

Fred Sauceman https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Femika “Meik” Elliott’s businesses and organizations:

Call for volunteers: Volunteers are needed for the Knox County Community Garden Alliance on Sunday nights at 6 PM. Especially Black and East Knoxville community members.

Address: 3907 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Suite 107 Knoxville TN 37914

Phone: (865) 310-1150

Email: Stair@knoxgardenalliance.org

Femika “Meik” Elliott, Founder, Owner of Meik Meals, Rooted East, The Lotus Experience, and Chief of operations of the Knoxville Community Gardens & Growers Alliance. Photo: Amy Campbell, 2021.

The Love Kitchen, Knoxville, TN. Feeding all races, all denominations since 1986.

by Amy Campbell

S10:E6. 02/11/2023

The Love Kitchen, Knoxville, TN. Feeding all races, all denominations since 1986.

For this Valentine's season, I (Amy Campbell) wanted to share a story about true love. Helen and Ellen founded The Love Kitchen on Valentine’s Day, 1986, feeding 22 people in need. I visited Helen and Ellen in 2015, and you can hear their voices in this podcast. Their truth that you will see posted on the wall of the love kitchen is “Everybody is God’s Somebody.”

Three truths their Daddy taught them:

  1. There is but one father, that’s the heavenly father
  2. There is but 1 race, and that’s the human race.
  3. Don’t ever take the last pc of bread from the table cause somebody might come by who’s hungry.

The Love Kitchen provides a Wednesday food pantry, serves 500 meals in-house, and delivers over 3,000 meals to the homebound weekly. That’s 155,000 meals a year. So even though Helen and Ellen are no longer with us in body, they are with us in spirit, and The Love Kitchen is still thriving and serving.

Mary "Dee Dee" Constantine (retired food writer for the Knoxville News Sentinel) shares a quick meal for Asian noodles and greens that takes about 20-25 minutes to prepare.

Links:

The Love Kitchen: https://thelovekitchen.org/

Mary Dee Dee Constantine: https://twitter.com/skilletsister

Emi Sunshine sings our theme song: https://theemisunshine.com/

Ellen Turner and Helen Ashe, Founders of The Love Kitchen, Knoxville, TN. Photo: From the Love Kitchen Website. https://thelovekitchen.org/

Femeika Elliott, Founder of Meik Meals, and the Lotus Program, Knoxville

by Amy Campbell

S9:E20. 05/28/2022

Femeika (Meik) Elliott, Founder of Meik Meals, and the Lotus Program, Knoxville

Today, we are setting the table with plant-based eating, especially for new Mothers. My first guest is Femeika (Meik) Elliott, founder, and owner of Meik Meals and the Lotus Program. This young, black, Knoxville-based entrepreneurial chef creates foods that give us that comfort of taste while using healthier ingredients. Meik encourages people to make lifestyle choices that nurture the body, mind, and soul. She specifically works with postpartum Mothers to help them feel their best through food, education, and meditation with her Lotus program. Meik also speaks to groups throughout the community about her work. This episode originally aired in February 2022, and since then, Meik Elliott has won the What's The Big Idea? 2022 Pitch Competition, through the Knoxville Entrepreneurial Center, and has presented at Pecha Kucha night, Knoxville. Also, Fred Saucepan’s potluck radio series features Cherokee poet and storyteller Marilou Awiakta.

Meik Meals https://meik-meals.com/

The Lotus Program: https://www.teknovation.biz/breaking-news-the-lotus-program-wins-last-nights-wtbi-pitch-competition/

Fred Sauceman https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Knoxville Entrepreneurial Center: https://knoxec.com/

PechaKucha Knoxville: https://www.facebook.com/pknknoxville/