Market Square and UT Farmers Start next week

Our 2 Knoxville markets start this week and its going to be a busy season. 

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Pick up Options - Knoxville, TN

• -Market Square, Saturday’s 9am-2pm
• -UT Farmers Market, Thursdays 4pm-7pm
• -Three Rivers Market, Saturdays 9am Sharp!

Pick up Options - Johnson City, TN

• Jonesborough Farmers Market, Saturdays 8am-12pm.

Who are these people and why are they so.....Organic?

JEM Organic Farm is a Certified Organic Farm located just outside of Historic Rogersville TN. We are a small family run farm and grow certified organic produce and are one of Tennessee's only Non GMO whole chicken and egg producers.

We raise our own hogs and goats, supplying various cuts of each. We also raise NON GMO Meat Birds including chicken, duck and turkey.

All our animals are raised without confinement and allowed to behave like...umm animals, meaning they root, scratch, eat grass and swim! We rotate each of our animals to clean fields often, offer the best hay we can manage and keep our pastures as nice as possible.  We raise them the way nature intended. Our feeling is that healthy, happy animals create a balanced farm and provide the best tasting meat and eggs.

All of our animals are fed strickly NON GMO Feed. This feed is tested at every batch from the supplier and carries the NON GMO Verified Label.

Ok, that’s great! But why go through the extra trouble of being certified organic?

Easy. We've see the evidence of what Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)'s are doing to the world's food supply, genetic diversity and food safety.  We believe that GMO crops are damaging the land, the environment and the health of the people that eat this altered food.

The organic certification is an assurance that we do what we say we do. We believe that renewing the land as we manage our crops and animals is vitally important to the food we all eat everyday. The soil, plants and animals are all integrated and need to work together. Adding pesticides and petroleum-based fertilizers only inhibit nature’s balance. We value our certification because it’s our way of walking the walk and talking the talk. There are a lot of people out there who want to sell you things and will say anything to do it. We don’t want to be one of them.

Our goal is to re-mineralize the land, grow the freshest and most nutrient dense foods that are healthy and great tasting for our neighbors in East Tennessee.

We don't use GMO treated seeds.....EVER and all our chicken feed is NON GMO.

We Strongly urge you to look at the Genetically Modified Food link on the button labeled "GMO Risks"

Are we Activists? Or just general Whacko’s

A little of both really!  Over the last several years we’ve read a lot of labels and found that a whole lot of the so-called “natural” foods on the market are treated or contain altered ingredients. Whether it is GMO’s, high fructose corn syrup, pesticides or antibiotics, most things found in the grocery stores contain some of this stuff and frankly we are completely tired of filling our shelves with poor food choices and with foods that want to kill us!

So, yes we talk about GMO’s, we want to make everyone aware of what pestisides can do and we probably know more than we should about the whole corn syrup thing. The saying is "you are what you eat" is important to JEM Farm and should be important to anyone who occasionally  eats.......!