Every week, the white trucks and trailers of West Winds Farm roll in to Farmers Markets and local neighborhoods across Tennessee, offering organic, grass-fed beef, pork, lamb and poultry products. West Winds started 14 years ago almost as an accident, when two Oak Ridge environmentalists fell for each other and then for farming…
Today West Winds is Tennessee’s sole organic meat producer, supplying markets from Memphis to Knoxville to Atlanta and the rest of the country via the internet.
We think it’s great news that several Tennessee Prisons are choosing to Go Green, and Live Green Tennessee recently visited Sergeant Doug Griffith of the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Griffith explained a recycling program that turns leftover food from five prisons into rich, fertile mulch that’s then used on a 100-acre kitchen garden. The inmates working the farm save the prison system—and you, the taxpayer—money... But more important is the responsibility, the fresh air, and the opportunity to learn practical, employable and life-long skills to help trustees adjust to life upon release.