Local Farmers market

In 2006 the All Saints' Episcopal Church of Smyrna almost ceased to exist. A schism over the ordination of clergy in their church led to the congregation splitting into two groups. The one group that did end up with the building might be considered by many to be the victors the truth is that numbers are needed to keep a community going.

In 2007 or so a new group of people entered the picture and new energy filled the building. A group of refugees from Myanmar took religious residence and a new feel was born. This new group was not one to be pew sitters and they quickly asked if they could turn part of the property into a small garden....and thus congregational history was made.

That small garden has grown into several well tended fields, multiple crops, and a thriving energetic community that has even set up their own farmers market.

My wife and I dropped by after I belatedly noticed that they had posted the hours for the market on their blog, Kurios Farms.

Farm Market Set to Open July 12
This Saturday July 12 will see the opening of our farm market on the church property located at 1401 Lee Victory Pkwy, Smyrna, TN in the picnic pavilion to the left of the church building. Through the rest of the season, the market will be open mornings on Saturdays and Tuesdays. This Saturday we expect to offer two varieties of yellow summer squash and zucchini. We may also have green beans, pickling cucumbers and okra. In the coming weeks we will be harvesting beefsteak tomatoes, lima beans, peppers, and sweet corn. As fall approaches we will continue to offer the above as they are available in addition to pumpkins, decorative corn and decorative corn husk arrangements. If you are adventurous, we also currently have a small variety of greens native to Burma.

This is really the best type of farmers market. You not only know it is grown here, but you can even see the fields as it grows.

The fields, the church and the market are located at 1401 Lee Victory Parkway. Their blog has pictures from the last year of them working the farm and other endeavours as they brought it up to full production.

The ladies there were very kind and they talked of the issues of cross cultural farming. One was explaining that Okra was to be picked small not large and that due to inexperience they tied the tomatoes late and that did hinder that crop some.

The market is located in a picnic pavilion on our property to the left of the church building. The market offers fresh produce grown in sight from the pavilion behind our church. All of our produce is grown cleanly without the use of ANYTHING artificial. God has provided us with sunlight, a natural water source and land made for farming. Our market will be open Tuesdays and Saturdays throughout the growing season. Read our Kurios Farm blog for updates, and come visit us.

Drop by for what is truly a local farmers market.