An Opportunity to Help a Downtown Friend
Many of you know Art Carmichael. As much as anyone, he is a part of the fabric of downtown. A downtown resident for years, I first met Art, I believe, at the Just Ripe Half Birthday...
Charlotte Tolley
Downtown Farmers’ Market Returns with New Twists
It was here, then it was there, now it is here and there. As has every organization, particularly those that attract large crowds of people, Nourish Knoxville‘s Market Square Farmers’ Market was forced to remake itself...
Market Square Farmer’s Market Moves and Adds New Safeguards (Plus a list of other things you need to know today)
If you’re one of the many Market Square Farmers’ Market fans, you’ve probably started wondering about the plans for the downtown institution that is set to open on May 2. Given our current situation, it’s obvious...
Farmers’ Market and Civil War Commemorations for Your Weekend
I’ll bet when you read about the City People Home Tour yesterday you thought, “That sounds like a fun downtown weekend,” and you were right. Then maybe you looked at the events listing at the top of...
Just Ripe Sold to Century Harvest Farms!
I told you good news was on the way and here’s a shot of just that. I’ve been waiting anxiously to share the great news that Chris Burger and Century Harvest Farms will close next week...
Nourish Knoxville and the 2015 Winter Farmers’ Market
Like me, during your visits to the Market Square Farmers’ Market and other random times in the last year or so, you may have noticed references to Nourish Knoxville and wondered vaguely what that was all...
Just Ripe Facing Possible Closure, Hopes for Sale
I’ve written about many openings in the city as well as more than a few closures over the last four-and-a-half years. Some of the closures shocked me and some have hit on a personal level. None...
Winter (Farmers’) Market Coming to Southern Railway Station
I’m always being schooled by the many, many smarter people than myself that I continually run into. It wasn’t that many months ago that I had a conversation with a group and the idea of Winter...