Home canning is a big part of many families’ food preservation tradition.  A much older and less common technique is the process of Fermentation, traced back as far as 1500 BC.
Sandor Katz is an avid practitioner of this process, even gaining the nickname SandorKraut for his first fermented Sauerkraut venture. With 14-years’ experience, Katz proudly promotes the health benefits and amazing taste that come with fermenting foods and beverages.

• Wild Fermentation website
• Sandor's Sauerkraut (Sandorkraut) Recipe

More and more, individuals and businesses are buying into the fact that conscientious living is healthy for all of us. Some make small commitments; some go all out. For Tayst Restaurant’s Chef Jeremy Barlow, a personal goal to go green and shop local changed his professional life when he earned the Green Restaurant Association’s coveted Three-Star Certification.
The rating governs nearly every aspect of Barlow’s operation, from watts wasted, to food recycled to water saved. The rating is no mean feat; Tayst one of perhaps a dozen in the nation to earn Three Star status, which gained Barlow a lot of attention as CNN and Martha Stewart came calling.
Still, it’s the food that keeps customers happy, and coming back to Tayst…

• Tayst Restaurant

A lot of gardeners we know wait until spring to plant those wonderful gardens full of fresh fruits and vegetables. But at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, the Water's Organic Farm utilizes a variety of tunnel techniques to bring hungry college students fresh produce right through the winter.  
Live Green Tennessee visited Water’s Farm manager, Randy Dodson, to discover the ease and affordability of Tunnel Gardening in your own backyard!

• Waters Organic Farm

While a lot of farmers’ markets are seasonal and closed in the coldest months of winter, there are still a few small, farm-friendly vendors welcoming customers through the door every day. In Nashville’s Sylvan Park, one grocer has been doing just that for nearly 20 years. In fact, generations of Nashvillians have shopped at the historic spot now known simply as The Produce Place.

• The Produce Place website