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We are Bob Due and Oki Murata. We believe that ones health has a lot to do with what we eat and don't eat. Good tasting vegetables are a joy to have in ones diet and we are doing what we can to provide high quality, clean and safe local food via several Farmers Markets in the Knoxville, TN area.

The name for our farm reflects our concern about soil conservation. On most of the cultivated slopes in Eastern Tennessee farm land, soil erosion can be severe. So we have terraced all the cultivated slopes with 8 to 10 foot wide terraces. This gives us a level "field" on our hills and goes a long way to help keep the soil where it is.

The above image shows the original farm of 5.7 acres the year after I purchased it. The pink dashed lines are the farm property lines.

Below on the left is a satellite photo from the web showing the Cole farm that we purchased in the spring of 2008. The dark black line is the outline of the farm. The right is the topo of the same area. This has a total of 35 acres and the black line is the boundary. Our initial garden field is on the top of the hill to the right of the woods (The woods in the wedge to the lower left). We have one acre ready to go for the spring of 2009.

The photo on the left shows the West terraces with most of them in winter rye cover crop. This was about 2005. Since then, I have built several more terraces to the right and we are now in the process of building a high tunnel over those terraces for early spring crops in 2009.