New farmers grow knowledge at Chattanooga conference

“Weed management techniques” may not sound like a very fetching early morning topic, but it packed more than 225 eager farmers into one ballroom at the Chattanooga Trade and Convention Center.
Up to 1,200 people — many new and hopeful farmers — attended a four-day conference, the Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms Conference and Trade Show.

Trae Moore, a Chattanoogan who started the Main Street Farmers Market and helped organize the conference, said the farm model is changing, turning away from giant industrial farms to small, locally grown food producers.

Moore said he hopes the conference helps residents see how small farms can work to the local economy’s benefit.

Read full story at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

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