{"id":9041,"date":"2014-09-23T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=9041"},"modified":"2014-09-22T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T01:20:41","slug":"tennessee-department-of-agriculture-says-on-your-mark-get-set-and-slow-down-for-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2014\/09\/23\/tennessee-department-of-agriculture-says-on-your-mark-get-set-and-slow-down-for-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Department of Agriculture says On Your Mark, Get Set and Slow Down for Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>Nashville, TN<\/strong> – It\u2019s September, and Christmas d\u00e9cor is lining store shelves. You\u2019d think that the seasons are determined by which week school starts, and we\u2019d all be wise to air out our winter coats now.<\/p>\n

Amy Tavalin suggests that instead, we should stop the hands of time long enough to take in some local farmers markets this fall. \u201cFall has it all,\u201d says Tavalin, \u201cso don\u2019t rush it.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t skip the very best time of year to visit farmers markets,\u201d says Tavalin, farmers market specialist with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. \u201cFrom now until the first hard freeze is easily the most abundant season of the year in Tennessee. We have a long growing season, so not only are all of summer\u2019s favorites enjoying a last hurrah, but everything from fresh apples and chrysanthemums to sweet potatoes and Indian corn will be elbowing into farmers market aisles across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been an especially mild, productive year for Tennessee farmers, and some crops that might in other years have wilted from excessive summer are still going strong. Fresh, local produce will be here until our first hard freeze sometime in October.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLarger farmers markets traditionally host all sorts of rootsy, wholesome events on autumn weekends throughout the fall,\u201d says Tavalin. \u201cPumpkin painting, live music, chili cook-offs and apple themed activities can make a weekend trip to the market feel like a trip to the county fair. Visiting a farmers market is always free of charge, and lugging home a bushel of apples is smarter than throwing out your arm trying to win a stuffed poodle.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to find local farmers markets and get information about their autumn schedules through www.picktnproducts.org<\/a> and the new \u201cPick Tennessee\u201d mobile app. The free app is downloadable from both the App Store for Apple products and from Google Play for Android devices and allows users to search by item, like \u201capples,\u201d by region of the state, season, the farm where they\u2019re produced, or the markets where they\u2019re sold. The mobile app then provides directions to the chosen location through direct GPS mapping.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome back to your local farmers market to get all the best of the summer garden plus a first look at all the colorful crops of fall,\u201d says Tavalin.<\/p>\n

Contact TDA marketing specialist Amy Tavalin at 615-837-5163 for more information. Follow Pick Tennessee Products on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – It\u2019s September, and Christmas d\u00e9cor is lining store shelves. You\u2019d think that the seasons are determined by which week school starts, and we\u2019d all be wise to air out our winter coats now. Amy Tavalin suggests that instead, we should stop the hands of time long enough to take in some local […]<\/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":[17],"tags":[9590,4,5049,6458,284,5243,1651,261,1632],"class_list":["post-9041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-amy-tavalin","tag-christmas","tag-fall","tag-farmers-markets","tag-nashville-tn","tag-pumpkins","tag-tda","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041","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=9041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9042,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041\/revisions\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}