2025 Speakers
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Bonnetta Adeeb
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Ariel Allen
United Way of Greater Knoxville
Connecting the Dots: Local Food Systems & Healthy Food Financing
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Signe Anderson
Tennessee Justice Center
Advocacy: Child Hunger Policy & the Impact on Communities Across Tennessee
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Rev Jen Bailey
The Dan & Margarette Maddox Fund
Keynote: Reclaiming Food and Land Lineages to Build Hopeful Futures
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Rachel Painter
UT Center for Farm Management
Pricing Products with Purpose
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Jack Bargainer
Cumberland River Compact
Welcome to Your Watershed: Understanding and Safeguarding Our Shared Water Resources
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Torrie Boggs
Real Good Kitchen Foundation
Connecting the Dots: Local Food Systems & Healthy Food Financing
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Rebecah Boynton
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Debbie Brann
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Greg Brann
River Cottage Farm, National Soil Health Division
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Ashley Brailsford
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Antonio Brazelton
Jackie Joyner-Kersee Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Innovation Center (JJK-FAN)
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Kat Britt
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Femeika Elliott
Rooted East Knoxville Collective
Creating Community-Owned Farmland: The East Tennessee Community, Housing, and Farmland Commons
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Rev Kate Fields
St. Augustine's Episcopal Chapel
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Diane Fisher
Steam Onward/Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance
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Jesse Fleisher
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Amyrose Foll
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Kathleen Growden
Save the Children Action Network
Advocacy: Child Hunger Policy & the Impact on Communities Across Tennessee
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Mak Harmon
Rooted East Knoxville
Practicing Collective Economics in the Food System: The Ujamaa Bartering Market
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Tanika Harper
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Jeannie M. Hunter
Food and Faith Collective
Practical Steps for Faith Communities to Feed Their Neighbors
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Kelsey Keener
Sequatchie Cove Farm
Scaling Pasture-Raised Egg Production on a Regenerative Farm
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Susana Lein
Salamander Springs Farm
Regenerative Agriculture: Combining Indigenous Milpa & Permaculture Practices
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Debra Lockard
Lockard’s Produce
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Jessie Lumpkins
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee
Beyond Surplus: What Farmers Should Know About Food Banks, Donations, and Making an Impact Locally
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Lillian Marcum
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Jody Gzhadawsot Mattena
BossLady Anish
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Anna Muhammad
The Northeast Organic Farming Association Massachusetts Chapter (NOFA/Mass) and Pocasset Pokanoket Landtrust
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Elizabeth Murphy
Nashville Grown
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Lauren Palmer
Bloomsbury Farms
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Jennifer Payne
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Jeff Poppen
Long Hungry Creek Farm
Storage Crop Success: Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes and Winter Squash
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Amy Qazi, RD, LDN
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee
Beyond Surplus: What Farmers Should Know About Food Banks, Donations, and Making an Impact Locally
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Jonathan Ramirez
Thriving Earth Farm
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Thomas Ruggles
Rooted East Knoxville
Practicing Collective Economics in the Food System: The Ujamaa Bartering Market
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Nolan Sherrill
Food Business Owner
Connecting the Dots: Local Food Systems & Healthy Food Financing
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Hebron Smith
Clarksville-Montgomery County Master Gardeners
Heirloom Seeds: Biodiversity, Belonging, and the Seed Keeper's Role
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Stephen Smith
Montgomery County Master Gardeners Association
Heirloom Seeds: Biodiversity, Belonging, and the Seed Keeper’s Role
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Stephen Ussery
Stewards Unlimited
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Taylor Ussery
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Robin Verson
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Anthony Villa
Villa Acres
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Kristina Villa
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Ira Wallace
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
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Michael Washburn
Seed Savers Exchange
Heirloom Seeds: Biodiversity, Belonging, and the Seed Keeper's Role
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Lillie Wiggins
Our Hands Garden
Practical Steps for Faith Communities to Feed Their Neighbors
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Jess Wilson
Southeast TN Young Farmers
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Lizzie Wright
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Mary Dunn
Gordon Memorial United Methodist Church
Practical Steps for Faith Communities to Feed Their Neighbors