04/25/2023
Timothy Kercheville will be gathering with us in Cottontown, TN on May 20th! Tim has been working with J K Brister Eagle and Erica Brister on their family farm Buttercup Farm for the past two seasons. A food forest (vegetables, fruit, mushrooms) have been planted along with flocks of ducks and sheep. The food production along with the community focus is why we are excited to host Tim in Cottontown at the community meeting next month! He is an excellent communicator and works with the children of the homeschool academy to further their fundamental farming studies.
"Timothy Kercheville is a full-time professional farmer and landscape artist with 10 years experience and is connected with the farmers, nursery growers, and property owners across Tennessee and Kentucky, with outreach across the USA, and design experience in 4 states (also Iowa and California). Together with property owners and managers he helps turn *any property of whatever context* into landscapes of glistening food: a harvest of sunlight and cooperative, timely action, within circular seasons of life. He is the owner of Festina Lente Farms Inc., through which company he performs agricultural - landscape design and consulting.
Festina Lente means Hasten Slowly: that is an attitude and commitment across the seasons and life's vicissitudes.
What is the goal of Festina Lente Farms? To transform land management everywhere toward holistic design and food production, and to teach and train new farmers and gardeners into a regenerative agricultural economy."
