{"id":8467,"date":"2014-04-25T01:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=8467"},"modified":"2014-04-25T00:42:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:42:26","slug":"tennessee-introduces-new-mobile-app-for-farms-farmers-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2014\/04\/25\/tennessee-introduces-new-mobile-app-for-farms-farmers-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Introduces New Mobile App for Farms, Farmers Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheNashville, TN <\/strong>– A \u201cPick Tennessee\u201d mobile app is now available which can find and then map the way to locally grown farm products, farms and farmers markets. The free app, downloadable from both iTunes for Apple products and from Google Play for Android devices, is the latest advancement of Tennessee Department of Agriculture\u2019s Pick Tennessee Products promotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud to introduce this new face of an old friend,\u201d Tennessee Department of Agriculture Commissioner Julius Johnson said. \u201cPick Tennessee Products has thrived for 28 years not only by providing real and valuable services, but also by having the flexibility to adapt to change\u2014changing cultures, consumer demands, and technology.\u201cOur government services must anticipate needs not just for the current year, but for 15 years down the road. With the new Pick Tennessee mobile app, we now reach consumers where they already expect to find us\u2014on their phones and other digital devices.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pick Tennessee mobile app allows users to search by item, like \u201capples,\u201d by region of the state, or season. The mobile app then provides directions to the chosen location through direct GPS mapping.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Tennessee farmer or farm product producer who sells directly to the public can visit the Pick Tennessee Products website and apply to become part of this extraordinary free service,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIf a farm is listed on Pick Tennessee Products, that farm is automatically available on the new Pick Tennessee mobile app for GPS mapping.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pick Tennessee mobile app can keep track of favorites and provides links to seasonal recipes, handy tips and fun facts, as well as the full Pick Tennessee Products website. Farm direct and local items on the app include options as varied as local fruits and vegetables, wineries, greenhouses and plant nurseries, Christmas tree farms, and local honey. The items can be searched by the farm where they\u2019re produced, or the markets where they\u2019re sold.<\/p>\n

Pick Tennessee Products is the longstanding state campaign to connect customers to locally grown or made products and farm-related activities. The Pick Tennessee Products site, www.picktnproducts.org<\/a>, also posts directories of the state\u2019s county fairs, equine trails and services, local meats and dairies, and agritourism farms and activities of all kinds.<\/p>\n

Going live in 1995, the Pick Tennessee Products site was the state of Tennessee\u2019s first consumer Web presence and continues to be TDA\u2019s information gateway for consumers and for marketing related producer programs. The site, a completely free service, currently features close to 2,000 participating farms, processors and other ag and farm businesses, listing about 10,000 individual items. It attracted more than 300,000 visits last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis entire promotion is a completely free service to our producers and ag industry, on the Web, in print and broadcast, and now, through the full range of social media,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cPick Tennessee Products now has a new look and, but more important, it provides greater services for our farmers and rural economies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Follow Pick Tennessee Products on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – A \u201cPick Tennessee\u201d mobile app is now available which can find and then map the way to locally grown farm products, farms and farmers markets. The free app, downloadable from both iTunes for Apple products and from Google Play for Android devices, is the latest advancement of Tennessee Department of Agriculture\u2019s Pick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[6010,7494,6458,3225,1380,9097,9098,6308,549,284,2467,1651,1632,2043,8780],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-app","tag-christmas-tree-farms","tag-farmers-markets","tag-fruits","tag-gps","tag-greenhouses","tag-honey","tag-julius-johnson","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-pick-tennessee-products","tag-tda","tag-tennessee-department-of-agriculture","tag-vegetables","tag-wineries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8468,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions\/8468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}