Welcome to FromTheFarm.Net...

Our Local Bounty...Connecting East Tennessee consumers with farmgate sources for locally grown and locally made farm products...

FromThe Farm.Net provides an easy and convenient way to locate fresh, nutritious and delicious farm and food products grown and made right here in East Tennessee--and a great way to support your local farms and farm-based businesses.

List Your Farm or Business on FromTheFarm.Net...

If you are an East Tennessee farmer and would like to list your crops or other products on FromTheFarm.Net, please follow the link below to find out how.

Introducing Mobile Farmers Market Online!...

The Mobile Farmers Market Now you can pre-order fresh, locally grown fruits, vegetables, honey and other seasonal items from the Mobile Farmers Market.

Place your order here by midnight Sunday and pick up your order of fresh, nutritious, delicious local produce on Tuesday or Wednesday at any of the regularly scheduled Mobile Farmers Market locations.

Pre-pay by credit card when you place your order...or pay by cash or check at pickup...it just couldn't be easier to put fresh foods from local farms on your table!

View the current Mobile Farmers Market selection here and start enjoying the best of Greene County's farm-fresh foods!

And don't forget...you can also order Mobile Farmers Market Local Food Baskets here at FromTheFarm.Net--the same great, locally grown foods in seasonal mixed baskets.

Top 10 Reasons to Buy Local Foods...

  1. Food grown in your own community was probably picked within the past day or two. It's crisp, sweet and loaded with flavor. Produce flown or trucked in from California, Florida, Chile or Holland is, quite understandably, much older. Several studies have shown that the average distance food travels from farm to plate is 1,500 miles. In a week-long (or more) delay from harvest to dinner table, sugars turn to starches, plant cells shrink, and produce loses its vitality.

  2. A recent study showed that fresh produce loses nutrients quickly. Food that is frozen or canned soon after harvest is actually more nutritious than some "fresh" produce that has been on the truck or supermarket shelf for a week. Locally grown food, purchased soon after harvest, retains its nutrients.

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